Evendays

We’ve got a friend who is the only person around qualified for the job she does. About 50, originally from the North-East (USA), she speaks fluently “accented” French and uses all her energy ministering to young and old alike. Contact her and she’ll likely be visiting one of the older ladies in the huge apartment building where she rents. God has used her to convert several of these widows who reach out to other widows. Our friend organizes a Seniors’ Retreat every year. About 20 were together last fall, praying and studying the Bible, doing arts and crafts and hunting for mushrooms. She plans the menu for 140 during the summer youth camp. She assembles a team and dispenses her force, following every French cooking regulation and feeding every camper. In a word, our friend is indispensable to the French work, an arm or a foot to the Body of Christ. Her only desire is to stay in France and work, live near poverty level, no retirement, visit her children maybe once a year, happily exhaust herself in service. But she has lost her financial support. Some of her ex-funds will go to a new building. Perhaps others to where the work is growing faster. We “European” workers are thankful for all we receive, but know that our ministry can be effectively stopped when supporting churches make budget decisions.