Evendays

In June we were very blessed to have Robert and his wife and family come with 6 students from Harding University. They joined us for our Sunday afternoon worship after 5 busy days in Geneva. We were able to do the following activities with them:

English conversation groups (3 classes) in two local Lausanne High Schools;
Tea [...]

Yes, as you have heard, 20 years ago today the guards opened the passage ways and allowed free access to West Berlin to those who were under communist rule.
My cousin was in Berlin that day with a group of Pepperdine Heidelberg students. The timing was right. They danced on the wall and got their picture [...]

Lausanne counts about 35% foreigners (we are part of that number too!), Geneva counts even a bigger percentage, and our outreach touches a large number of folks who come from all around the globe. 
I was put into contact with a young man from Bolivia who is studying in Geneva. One of his housemates had invited [...]

We had 7 Harding University students in our home, along with their French professor and his family. Total of 12, like the tribes or the apostles. Sons 1 and 2 welcomed the tribes, I mean the 12, because Wife and I were out of town. They all did the worship time at the nearby retirement [...]

It was a small group who came to hear the Harmonie Chorale sing, but 25 of those folks were visitors and the evening of song and witness was energizing. Daughter did great. (BTW, check out an excellent picture of her running right here in 1997, and see Wife’s posts on memories concerning this weekend’s race [...]

I don’t know if you heard about it, but it seems the financial world is in crisis. It’s all the talk here.
The money woes of the world make the front page and the opening stories of the Swiss news, and the radio continues to explain the situation, inviting ministers of finance to share their opinions [...]

Today is “new webpage day”. With each seekers’ conference in Geneva, with the new flyer and the distributions that we do, we also prepare a new web page/site. Actually, I plan it, design it, write up the text and ask for suggestions. It’s not a bad process, and it allows me to learn something new [...]

Last night, the Chorale Harmonie from Marseilles sang in the nearby mountain village of Leysin. It’s a good group, especially the tenors, and not just because one of them is Son 2 (of course, that helps). The accappella chorus sang gospels and hymns, praise and spirituals, in French and in English. The audience at the [...]

Here’s a quote from page 723 of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, after Harry’s long, plot-explaining conversation with his old mentor, Dumbledore:
“Tell me one last thing,” said Harry. “Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?”Dumbledore beamed at him, and his voice sounded loud and strong in Harry’s ears even though [...]

Immigrant populations can often be open to Gospel while “Europeans” are not. The churches of Christ in Paris are essentially focused on the “changing France”, that is, one of the churches is largely made up of French citizens from the Caribbean (blacks) while the other is made up of French-speaking Christians from sub-Sahara Africa. Of [...]