May 2013: "A heart for france"

My sending church, Hamilton Baptist Community Church, sends me its weekly church bulletins. It's great to keep up with their activities and some news. I like reading the Pastor's Pen - how many times has the subject echoed for us here in France? - our Western society is so going down the wrong path in many ways!

For prayer, they list the members of the church family by family, individual by individual and also give a specific prayer point for each day. This coming Sunday's point is:

Winter this year has dragged on so long that even the most positive of people are complaining and feeling low. ,"Always look on the bright side of life," we used to sing (thanks to 'the Life of Brian' - sorry about the controversial reference!!) and as an Aussie I've always welcomed rain knowing that our reserves need to be filled.

Some see these climatic changes as a consequence of our bad management of the earth's resources (cf Genesis), others as natural, others as a punishment that God is bringing upon us .....

Yesterday we had our regional Pastor's meeting. The day started off with a look at the following text:

Good luck to you French-speakers!

Here is the video clip created to promote a year-long collection of meditations on the theme of ,"May Your Kingdom Come,". I contributed to this effort with one humble offering (those of you who heard me in Australia would have heard something on 1 Cor 15: 36-58).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUP7jIuqTv8