These past few months with a new baby have just flown by. We feel so blessed to share our lives with this amazing little person, and the blessing of Havalyn being a missionary is twofold: Havalyn can take Zacharie along wherever she needs to be to work and she can slowly work her way back to her ministry responsibilities. |
| Our little buddy is getting so expressive! |
This past week we had Youth Group on Friday night as usual and we started practicing and planning for the Christmas pageant. The script that we will be using was originally in English, so Havalyn and our church worship leader Sandrine (who is also quite proficient in English) worked for many hours translating everything, from stage directions to the jokes, into French. Both of us agree that we won't be translating any books any time soon - translating is hard work! But it was fun to work together and the script appears to be a winner with the youth (At the read-through they couldn't stop laughing at the jokes.)
Another big responsibility that we are keeping up with is the monthly women's Bible study and prayer meeting. Havalyn often spends the whole month envisioning and planning her message for the women. The meeting is always the last Thursday of the month and the topic this year is "Living a faith that is fresh." This topic was born from the first message that Havalyn presented in September, where she spoke about how we would never serve leftovers to our friends or our boss, so why would we offer the King of Kings our leftover faith? She shared about the life of Lot, who was a man who didn't walk with God himself, but who walked with a man who walked with God (Abraham). Reheated or secondhand faith didn't work for Lot, and it won't work for us too if our desire is to walk with God.
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| Our youth like to have our prayer time on the stage. |
Please be praying specifically for the youth group, which was reorganized this year to incorporate youth from 13 to 25 (So quite the mix!) So far things are going well - the youth have a lot of good questions and seem motivated to follow God. Please pray that their hearts would be able to receive and practice the Biblical truths that we are teaching them, and please pray for our youth leaders that we would be communicating what God's wants them to hear.
