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Death and compassion

Haylina, one of your sisters from Marseilles, is in a hospital bed dieing from cancer. She has a boy who is 16 and another who is about 9. Their father is violent and has never taken care of them, so the Marseilles church has stepped in. They are caring for the boys now, and after, [...]

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Weekend round-up

On Friday and Saturday, I spent a little more than 24 hours near Macon, France with about 30 servants from the different assemblies of churches of Christ from France, Belgium and Switzerland. The Bible studies were encouraging and the 3 panels on different challenges facing churches in our part of the world were helpful. The [...]

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A Sunday morning in prayer

On Sunday, November 26, we will be spending time in prayer rather than working through the habitual sermon. We will be praying for the church here, our future, and for each one of the members. It’s been a rough year and several are feeling “beat up”, if you know what I mean, so a time [...]

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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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The rebirth of the Thank You Card

The young lady at the Geneva church handed me the envelope and said “sorry” for not having delivered it earlier. She didn’t know we’d be gone to the USA. She said it was to express their thanks…
As I drove home that night, I opened the envelope at the first red light. Inside was, surprise, a [...]

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