Evendays

On Sunday afternoon, about 20 of us gathered at lakeside some 100 meters in front of a 12th century church. The Alps rose on the opposite side of the lake, boats sailed across our view, the sun sparkled off the water.
We had come to this spot for F.’s baptism. I spoke to the small group [...]

Summer brings about a deadness to the city that I must admit, is easy to enjoy. Things
are quieter because so many are on vacation. The traffic is almost non-existent
because everyone is in the mountains, the south of France, or somewhere in
Asia. I do not like the low numbers of folks at church, but I love [...]

Happy Birthday, Sister!
Last week we changed our Sunday worship time in Lausanne from morning to late afternoon, starting at 17:00. (That’s 5 PM to you non military types. To figure that out, take the first number, add twelve to it, divide that number in half, then multiply by the difference between your time zone and [...]

This is not about Dillon’s song, "But the times… They are a changin’" (BTW, Dillon gave a concert in Geneva last week, $85 for the cheapest seats in the stadium, and the critics said it was one of the worst concerts they’d ever seen / heard / been exposed to).
One thing the men at church [...]

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 [...]

We caught a mid-morning train to Geneva. The following train on to Lyon had been cancelled, with a bus had been scheduled instead. Since it wasn’t quite big enough, one angry, mid-fifty-ish, loud American just kept yelling (in French): “My ticket is for 10:58. My ticket is for 10:58.” I felt sorry for him until [...]

Friday, Wife, daughter and I headed off towards Lille, France after the worship time at the nearby retirement home. We had decided to stop at the just-over-halfway point in a cheapy hotel. This was our first stay at a Formule 1, those modular, prefabbed hotels that cost 50 bucks to stay the night. It worked [...]

It was time for Tuesday night Bible Study yesterday in Geneva. It was also “neighborhood” night, where people who live in big apartment buildings were supposed to set up a table outside their main entrance and share a glass with other tenants. The Geneva church meets in an office building across from a residential area. [...]

Doubts: We were but 14 yesterday morning for our worship time. Jesus promised to be present, which still makes that reunion “extraordinary”, even though I struggle to believe it.
Assurance: In our Bible class, several of us were reading passages on “the Church is the body of Christ”. We then spent some time defining the different [...]

May 1 was May Day, Ascension Day, and Wife’s B-day all wrapped into one. Plus we were at the Ascension retreat with 120 Christians in Ardèche, France. Wife got cake, kisses, cards and champagne, along with praise and hugs, from the whole group. She is much loved and held in high esteem.
We came home on [...]