Archive for October, 2006

Teen retreat (encore)

How do you tell if you had a great teenage weekend retreat or not?

You could count the number of wounded (one broken arm, one foot in the eye).
How ‘bout the number of conversions? (0 and still counting).
Maybe the hours of sleep you got per 24h? (outside of the Bible studies, about 6.5 hours). [...]

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Teen retreat

It’s time for our yearly All Saints Teenage Retreat in beautiful Ardêche, France. Even though it’s not quite All Saints Day and even though I’m not a teenager, we’ll be attending for the 15th time. This is only my ninth time to direct it. And there is a great group of workers who support this [...]

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Tea

We live down the street from St. Paul’s, the local parish church. For the last 15 years I’ve attended either their monthly Bible studies or weekly prayer meetings.
Today was Mme Mosimann’s 91st birthday, so Wife prepared cupcakes and Ukrainian honey cookies for the Tuesday prayer group. After the prayers, the ladies and two pastors came [...]

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Son 1 starts the University of Lausanne

Monday’s a big day. Son 1 will be an official university student, attending classes in the Lausanne University’s Police and Forensic Science department, studying chemistry and biology, math and computers.
The good news is he can live at home where the cooking is excellent and laundry is done at least once a week. He only has [...]

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Heaven or hell

Yes! I finally got my Yancey book and quickly read the first two chapters. I’m looking forward to the discussion starting tomorrow, HERE.
Anyway, they stuck in a Christianbook.com Christian Book Bargains Fall Sale Catalogue (CCBBFSC) and I spent about 30 minutes in it rather than reading one of the books I already own. I’m going [...]

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Where you been?

I gave the sister a call because she’d been absent on Sunday, and I’d missed her before that.
“I’m just calling to make sure you’re okay and not ill.” (And I want to encourage you in your walk with God…)
“Well, I just changed my medication and am having trouble getting used to it.”
“So it’s making it [...]

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Singles' retreat bis

Here is a picture of some of the folks Son 1 and I were with a week ago in Germany. A great group!
Enjoy the day…
 

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Radars

The freeway between Lausanne and Geneva is a great 4 lane road but very, very busy. The 40 minute trip is often double that because of the heavy non-flow of traffic. The speed limit is 120 kilometers per hour (kph), that’s 74.564543 miles per hour for those of you who speed in the USA.
From January [...]

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Goodbye, Grandma

 

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Singles' retreat

Son 1 and I spent last weekend at a retreat center about 45 minutes north of Frankfurt in Germany. He went as a participant, I as the speaker. The theme chosen for the Singles’ retreat was “A life of significance” and the main text that they gave me was the wonderful list of spiritual blessings [...]

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