For your prayers
OK. Pat's scan is scheduled for next Monday lunchtime. She's started on the morphine and it does work for pain relief and she's not having strange dreams yet ( it's a low dose ! ).
We are working out how to ensure the children are where they need to be while Pat can't drive and when I am not available. They'll eat more at the school canteen. This is a bit expensive at 5,15 euros a meal ( so 10,30 a day for our two ), but as they say, desperate times call for desperate measures.
They'll also travel back and fore on the bus sometimes and for this they'll need travelcards. To get their travelcards they'll need certificates of scolarity and I don't know what they are or where they come from. I've asked the school. It'll be fine !
Other practical things are still a bit difficult to imagine ( the car is due for a service, for example, which has to be done before 18 November ), but I am sure there's a way for everything to come together.
Meanwhile things to pray for in the church :
1) The international service is drawing Chinese folk. That's GREAT ! We thought it would. Their English is basic which is great, too, because it forces me to preach simply, directly and slowly.
2) For the French church we held the first gospel meeting this Sunday - I came into the tail end of it and it seemed to be going fine. I guess there were 15 to 20 people there, mainly younger folk ( students etc. ).
3) We are very grateful for our new premises but on Sunday morning it is a bit of a squeeze and, unfortunately, the room has been designed badly such that there is too much room at the front and not enough at the back ! ( I seem to remember British meeting rooms having the same problem )
4) This Sunday I am preaching am in French and pm in English. Last time I did the same message ( kind of ! ) in each service but this Sunday I am not going to do that. I will probably continue in Ephesians in the morning and preach from Mark in the evening.
5) You could also pray for the community in the Blaye area. The folk are mostly elderly, they face big challenges to restore one of the church buildings and wintertime is difficult for the group anyway. However they have a good spirit and are keen to reach out and grow, but how, with little strength ? I was talking with one chap on Sunday afternoon about persecution of Christians in certain African countries and he said 'Oh yes, but you can never stop Jesus Christ from building his church, no matter what you do.'
Very true !
We are working out how to ensure the children are where they need to be while Pat can't drive and when I am not available. They'll eat more at the school canteen. This is a bit expensive at 5,15 euros a meal ( so 10,30 a day for our two ), but as they say, desperate times call for desperate measures.
They'll also travel back and fore on the bus sometimes and for this they'll need travelcards. To get their travelcards they'll need certificates of scolarity and I don't know what they are or where they come from. I've asked the school. It'll be fine !
Other practical things are still a bit difficult to imagine ( the car is due for a service, for example, which has to be done before 18 November ), but I am sure there's a way for everything to come together.
Meanwhile things to pray for in the church :
1) The international service is drawing Chinese folk. That's GREAT ! We thought it would. Their English is basic which is great, too, because it forces me to preach simply, directly and slowly.
2) For the French church we held the first gospel meeting this Sunday - I came into the tail end of it and it seemed to be going fine. I guess there were 15 to 20 people there, mainly younger folk ( students etc. ).
3) We are very grateful for our new premises but on Sunday morning it is a bit of a squeeze and, unfortunately, the room has been designed badly such that there is too much room at the front and not enough at the back ! ( I seem to remember British meeting rooms having the same problem )
4) This Sunday I am preaching am in French and pm in English. Last time I did the same message ( kind of ! ) in each service but this Sunday I am not going to do that. I will probably continue in Ephesians in the morning and preach from Mark in the evening.
5) You could also pray for the community in the Blaye area. The folk are mostly elderly, they face big challenges to restore one of the church buildings and wintertime is difficult for the group anyway. However they have a good spirit and are keen to reach out and grow, but how, with little strength ? I was talking with one chap on Sunday afternoon about persecution of Christians in certain African countries and he said 'Oh yes, but you can never stop Jesus Christ from building his church, no matter what you do.'
Very true !
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big prayer list.
Hallelujah for a Bigger God.
"celui qui peut faire, par la puissance qui agit en nous, infiniment au delà de tout ce que nous demandons ou pensons," eph 3.20