After six months
of waiting, we finally have Internet service at the house and the landline
telephone should soon be activated.
When we moved here we never imagined it would take this long to get
hooked up. The Lord helped us
through this time by providing cell phone service, including limited Internet
through which we have been able to keep up with email and this blog.
Summertime usually
brings transition at church, both activity-wise and through arrivals and
departures. We have been blessed
to have a number of Hispanic young people attending church during the past
year, from Central and South America.
There was a special fellowship dinner on August 12 as a farewell to one
of the young ladies who was returning home after a year of working and studying
in France. P. will be missed by
all as she had attended and participated in the services faithfully. Adrianna and Lydia, the pastor’s
daughter, are always eager and ready to help serve. Others are beginning to return after summer trips, and soon
students will be arriving for the new school year. There have been new visitors several times, and some
continue to return each week.
Praise
for:
- fairly good
attendance continuing through the summer.
- the good
response to the adult class that Jonathan has been teaching Sunday mornings.
- the Lord’s
help in preparing a website for the English Encounter.
- the Lord’s
help for our elderly friends through a very hot spell and for the opportunities
that we have had to visit them and take them grocery shopping.
- the new
weekly meeting that Jonathan and Pastor Christian have set up to discuss church
matters and to pray, and for the pastors’ prayer meeting that Jonathan took
part in for the area pastors (5 of us present).
- that we now
have Internet service in our house as of Monday of this week.
Pray
for:
- God to
continue His work in hearts through the teaching and preaching of His Word, and
for the return of visitors, including children and men.
- Jonathan as
he helps the church in developing a needed church website as a tool to reach
the lost in Bordeaux.
- Cherith as
she prepares for the Ladies’ Bible Study beginning this fall and for both of us
as we study and prepare for the Adult Bible study and the children’s Sunday
school class each week. Pray as we
prepare for our second English encounter this Sunday afternoon, and pray for
the group that will gather for it.
- our
land-line telephone to be activated and usable.
- our 10-year
residency cards to be approved and granted soon.
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