Evendays

Y. sat attentively during the entire study (40 minutes long), the only child present. From time to time she would turn to her dad and ask him a question, a definition of a word, a clarification of some idea.
She pulled me aside after the class and said something like this:
You know, I watch my parents [...]

I was impressed by the Advent Conspiracy site, especially the way they send you on to other sites, thus making giving more direct.
Some of the works we’ve helped with:
Project Aids Orphan : Wife’s brother and sister-in-law head this project. We did the 5k run for them here right here in Lausanne!
Christmas baskets for Ecauador : [...]

I actually like the change back to the winter hour. More light in the morning: good thing. Not that I’m a morning person. I have always wanted (sort of) to be a morning person. I have always admired morning people. It’s just that I’m not one (yet) so the hour change makes the AM a [...]

Last week we had 11 students for the Thursday night dinner. The meal was fabulous and everybody ate everything but for a few potatoes. The great dessert (brownies, vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce) got vaporized in nano-seconds. 
Our question this week was easy, one that a last year’s student sent to me: What’s a Halloween [...]

I am finishing Sunday’s sermon on PRIDE. You know, the bad kind, the sin that makes it easy to disdain others and keep God out of the driver’s seat. The pride that C. S. Lewis devotes an entire chapter to in Mere Christianity. The sin to which the Son of God addressed a parable. The [...]

Just over 50 students are in this semester’s Pepperdine Lausanne program. We are fortunate to spend time with them every Monday around noon for chapel. Actually, it’s not so much chapel as announcement time, but some of the students are trying to wrestle it away from admin so that more time can be dedicated to [...]

Sunday was a full day. Coffee time. Colossians 3 study. Communion.
Sermon. Lunch with fellow Christians. Chorus practice in Geneva then
English worship and sermon. House church with Pepperdine Lausanne. A
good day.
Eugene Peterson, in one of his many books, writes about
meeting a parishioner while in town. The church member explained why
she wasn’t at church these days. Peterson [...]

27 youth came together in rain-drenched Ardèche, France for a three night and all the days between retreat during the All Saints Weekend. French teens get a couple weeks off at this time of the year, and the Swiss kids ditch a day of school to participate.
The weather was terrible. 6 inches of snow at [...]

I voted a couple of weeks ago. It was the fruit of visiting the Obama site. Just wanted to see what he had to say and saw a place to register, even though I am out of the USA.
I’d tried to do this several times in the past, always by mail, but three times [...]