Paimpol
Category: Daily life
The week ahead
Our colleagues are away on holidays for the week and are attending a retreat for full time ministers in the denomination our church belongs to. It means that we are the ones in charge this week. I am preparing the Bible study for tomorrow afternoon (Gal 3:19-29). If you have some light on verse 20, let me know.
We will be hosting the prayer meeting in our home on Thursday, and I will preach and lead the service on Sunday.
On top of that Jean-Baptiste is on Holidays. It is great to have him around. We may do one thing a bit different sometime in the week.
A mystery to solve
Alain Monclair is a former Pastor of our church in Guingamp, and now leader of a church plant in Quimper. On Sunday morning they had visitors who have recently moved in the area and are looking for a church. From what he could remember, they are a Franco-Belgian couple, have two daughters, and they know us… That’s very strange, apparently we would have met them in Wales. We have no recollection of a Franco-Belgian couple, so maybe it could be a Franco-British family. Can you help us solve this mystery?
A baptismal service (3)
I must also thank God for his help with the children today. Both Esther and myself were afraid that they would be disruptive. I was leading the service, and she was playing the piano. But it went amazingly well. Maxime sat with Maria Hartiel to start with, and eventually fell asleep. Jean-Baptiste sat with a boy from the church. He did start to get bored and play around with his car after a while. He was also singing a discretely. But Maria Hartiel went to get him and he sat with her and another lady from the church. He kept quiet for the rest of the service, and seemed to comply when they were telling him something. We thank God for these ladies, and for his help. We’ve thanked the children as well.
Where do they learn all this?
Children amaze me. Recently, Jean-Baptiste has been coming back home using some rude words in French. I know where he has learned them, and it is not from us, but what amazes me is that children his age already use this kind of language.
Braderie St Michel
A braderie is a kind of car boot sale. But most of the spaces were taken by professionals, selling all sorts of things, from underwear to kitchen ustensils.
