God of surprises!!!

Our atheist friend attended church in our home yesterday! She was warm and friendly, even participating in the lively discussion on leadership. One of the youngest members of the group gave his testimony- powerful declaration of his search and finding God, first as an adolescent, distancing himself in university, then returning to the Lord a little over two years ago. He was very clear about his need for the relationships in the church. Our friend told her companion (member of our church) later during the day that she was surprised in her visit because we were not at all what she expected. (Read here: cult!) Praise God! She was warmly welcomed and greeted by everyone and we were open with her. As I talked with her afterwards, I told her if she had the slightest questions about her experience or our beliefs she could feel free to ask them. She thanked me and left around 1:00pm. ( Yes, sometimes our discussions go a little longer than normal church. Also, folks stay around and visit and some Sundays do not seem to be in a hurry to leave!)

Time flys!!!

I don't know if I'll be able to keep this up very well since I blink twice and the week is over! We're continuing to meet with our discipleship groups in the house church. Right now we have two men's groups and two women's groups. This gives us a 99% participation in small groups, not bad for a French group. Pray for tomorrow's meeting when we have an atheist friend visiting. She is very skeptical, yet is in a relationship with a guy in our church so she's also curious and intrigued with the whole Christianity thing. She doesn't know what it really is so we're praying we can just love her into the kingdom.

New Adventure!!!

I decided that old dogs can learn new tricks! Hence, I'm trying my hand at blogging. We plan to use this more to communicate with supporters and friends. This is a trial and I make no promises about frequency, etc. Mostly just want to let folks know what is happening in the suburbs of Paris and how you can pray for us.
Be blessed, Andrew