Getting to know more people in France

We enjoyed two opportunities to host people in our home this week. Francois has just arrived from Taiwan to study here for a year. Tim picked him up at the airport on Wednesday, and then we enjoyed breakfast with him and Wilfried, one of our "regulars" at church who helped Francois to find an apartment and has really done a lot to help him get settled in. We have two other new students from Germany who have just arrived in Bordeaux to begin their programs, and who are already beginning to get involved in our church life, attending our church meetings and helping out with the distribution that is still underway. Please keep praying for visitors to come as a result of the church invitations/tracts that have been distributed in three more dormitory villages.

Today we enjoyed lunch with Priscilla, who has been attending our church for more than a month, along with Dalice and her son Diego. Dalice and Diego arrived in France just at the end of the summer from Puerto Rico, and Diego is the other non-French child in Micaiah's class. Micaiah and Diego have a great deal of sympathy for one another in their new language setting, even though they also have different mother tongues. We enjoyed getting to know Dalice and Diego more and are looking forward to developing our relationship with them as the school year progresses. Priscilla, who is originally from Mexico, was able to fellowship with Dalice in Spanish.