Evendays

Well, turns out you CAN’T write in comments for now, but I will inform you when it can be changed. (Or, try again…)
Since it is impossible to comment, I thought I might write something really absurd or maybe just insulting, but absurd and insulting go against my nature, unless I’m watching Monty Python.
I came home [...]

Hi everybody. Randy spent some time on this blog yesterday installing a more recent update to WordPress that should allow you to make comments. Hopefully, you won’t have to change passwords or anything like that. Give it a try and we’ll see if it works.
Thanks Randy, and thanks everybody for showing up from time to [...]

Wife and I caught an early morning train out of Lausanne on March 18, then transferred to the TGV in Geneva. 3.5 hours later we were in Marseilles, ready to surprise Daughter on her 19th birthday. It was great fun, and we not only surprised her, but also the 3 interns co-renters! The girls treated [...]

The beloved Apostle Paul said it several times, that he would boast only in the Lord.
Although we are often (and might I say, unashamedly) proud of children,
folks’ accomplishments, milestones and victories, each time we open
those Spirit-breathed letters they remind us that we can boast
eternally about but one thing: what the Father has done for us [...]

It’s Daughter’s birthday today. She is in Marseilles, France doing a
busy day’s ministry. Then she and her buddies will head off to KFC for
a greasy birthday supper.
We love you, Daughter. Wish we could blow
out some candles with you. Hey, I’ll make that wish when you blow out
those candles…

We’ve had just a few days of weather in the low 60’s… Barely enough to think that Spring might actually come. Enough heat to bring out the crocus (or crocae) hidden under the grass near the cherry tree.
But it won’t last (say the meteorologists). Saturday’s high will be in the mid 40’s. And that’s the [...]

My colleague from Geneva called me up a few months ago with a plan. He wanted to get two Paris churches together for a time of singing and worship. Emails were sent and commitments made. We headed off this last Saturday morning by bullet train to Paris.
Wife, colleague and I met with 23 "youth" on [...]

Ukraine has lost 5 million of its population in the last few years. Average life expectancy of the Ukrainian male is about 62. Times are tough and fewer children are being born. Those that can leave the country do. There is a true brain drain going on.
The church in T. is made up of godly [...]

I have been Kiev a bazillion times, but have never really been on my own in the city. (Which is not necessarily a bad thing.) The Metro dives hundreds of feet under  ground and speeds around, letting people off only if they can read the mysterious Cyrillic writing that is hidden in each station, or [...]