Evendays

I got a call about a week ago from a retired Spaniard who does most of the preaching for a small assembly here in Lausanne. He had heard of the preaching I’d done for a friend in a church that he’s just started. Wife and I invited the Spaniard and his wife over for a [...]

The days are longer, but are still flying by. I love this time of year. Achooo!
The challenge was to spend a week trying to see God at work. So I started listing the big events: A friend informed us she had breast cancer; A couple wants to come back to church; Another one pulled farther [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Today we celebrate 24 years in Lausanne. Yes, it was on January 8, 1985 that we came to Switzerland with the mission to bring people to Christ and to build up the local church. Our energy was high. Our hopes were higher. Our confidence… Well, that’s always been a tough one for me.
I was just [...]

When teaching 1 John, I normally tell two stories about the Apostle that Dr. Lemoine Lewis shared with us in his Church History back at ACU. Both are well known, both have been adapted, changed, and outright lied about by sincere preachers who were just trying to keep things interesting, I’m sure. The first is [...]

Each year we welcome to Lausanne those who are doing the spiritual internship in Marseilles, France. They normally arrive the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. We spend about 5 hours on 1 John on Thanksgiving Day, then they help get the room ready for the big evening meal. This year we were 21, far from a record, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

 
Stéphane Fournier wrote an article in the local paper and asked the question: Will a spirit of catastrophe threaten [Team Nati]? Bernard Challandes, wise coach of FC Zurich replied:
No. I don’t believe it will. What is essential for the players to do is to hold on to what is positive. There were some positive [...]