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  Bordeaux, France
Saturday, April 19, 2008

Today I worked in the hotel room for a few hours this morning then went to do some laundry. I'd been on the road more than a week, so it was about time. There's a laundromat in St Médard; I spent about an hour washing and drying a load of clothes. That should hold me until I leave Europe for Africa. When I get to Rwanda, the hotel I use there washes and presses laundry for guests very inexpensively, but in Europe the prices are quite high for this service, so I try to avoid it.
 
After I finished the laundry, it was time to drive to Mr. Mrs. Bernard Audoin's house where I had been invited for lunch. Mr. Audoin in a retired pastor who served many years in the Bordeaux area, and who continues to do so. They both came to the Church of God in the early 1960s. I've had the pleasure of knowing them since the early 1980s when I started getting involved with the work of the Church in French Europe.
 
Mrs. Audoin served a very delightful lunch while we caught up on news of family and friends, as well as news of the Church. It is always encouraging to spend time with Mr. Mrs. Audoin; they have a positive approach to life, strong stable faith, and a deep desire to serve, that has not weakened as they've grown older.
 
We finished lunch around 3:00 pm (this is France after all - meals are meant to take time!), and I drove back to the hotel to work some more.
 
Tonight was the Passover service. We were seven to participate in the service, including Mrs. Francette Eugénie who lives in Martinique, but who is here to visit her son and daughter-in-law. There were several young adults; prospective members who attended to observe the service and to hear expounded the lessons from the instructions Jesus left His disciples during this important commemoration. I had asked Mr. Audoin to administer the ceremony with me, but he said, if it was all the same to me, he'd rather let me do it. He said it would be the first time in 25 years that he would take the Passover without doing the speaking and he'd like to have it that way this once. It is always a sobering, but also and encouraging service.

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