Alive In France

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  • We Have Arrived!

      Unlike the other blog posts, this is going to be more of a little update. I fell asleep at 9:30pm after a long week and now I’m having a bout of insomnia but then I thought: when else other than at 4am am I going to be available to write a blog post! Where?…

  • “Ceci n’est pas très confortable pour moi”

    “This is not very comfortable for me” is strangely one of first French sentences Andrew learnt to master early on in our marriage. The irony of this is that this sentence will sum up our first week or so in France! But this story actually starts long before we arrived. Comfort is a topic I…

  • When He speaks thrice

    I love the gift of prophecy. It’s nothing more than God actively speaking to us through other people. When I say “nothing more” that’s a bit of an understatement – I mean the fact that the God of the universe who is perfectly holy and just, would even care to talk to us grubby lame…

  • A (not-so-brief) history of Christianity in France Part I: The Roman Era

    Most of Europe pre- 2nd Century was made of Celtic cultures and religions. The Gaulois, who had fought nail and tooth against oppression, were eventually submitted under Roman Law (think Asterix and Obelix with less victories and more people being hitched off to be slaves and gladiators). Until then, the small rural agrarian societies of…

  • Traveling Light

    “These were his instructions: “Take nothing for the journey except a staff—no bread, no bag, no money in your belts. Wear sandals but not an extra shirt.” Mark 6:8-9 As we approach our move, we have a lot to consider. Do we ship our things in a container? What do we keep? What do we…

  • A call we can’t resist

    How God called us to France You know that feeling when you’re given an option to stay in the familiar or to step into the unknown, and you know that to stay would be the lesser choice. It’s the feeling of our shepherd’s voice calling us to follow him. We may be enjoying the pastures…