Today Max Dauner, preacher from Marseille, taught class and also did the sermon. The sermon was very good and I was able to follow along very easily. Arlin led singing, so we sang some newer songs and also sang some songs that have same tune in English, which is always nice. After church was a baptism- a woman from Cote d'Ivoire that has been a visitor for a while. She has a cute 3 year old girl named Sophie... we're best friends :) Have you ever seen a portable baptistry before?
After that was a big potluck... there was one table for appetizers,
all the main dishes were on top of the [now covered] baptistry,
and then desserts on another table. After lunch, everyone pitched in to get the buildings back to normal... Doug used his spiritual gift of dishwashing. Next, the men and women split up for Ladies' Bible Class and the dreaded men's meeting. The monthly men's meetings are infamously long. Pamela told Doug to just go home :) Pamela taught a very good class on 1 John and I was again able to follow along wonderfully! When I got home, Doug was sweeping and mopping the kitchen, bathroom, and entry... since we leave the windows open most of the time while we are here, things get dusty/dirty faster. Neither of us is very hungry since we had such a big, long lunch, but we had leftovers then watched a movie. (Arlin generously let us borrow quite a stack of DVDs!) Tomorrow we will go to Beaujeu (Doug) and Belleville (me) to visit our middle schools... hopefully the English teachers there will be as welcoming as the ones we met Thursday!
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