The First of Several Posts!

First of all I want to thank you all for your encouraging comments and for your faithfulness to read and respond to my blog. Second, I want to apologize for allowing a month to pass before writing again!! I really don't have much of an excuse! I was talking to my mom the other day and I told her that now I just feel a little overwhelmed by the amount of information I would like to share with you guys...so she had GREAT suggestion. So make up for the last month of slacking...I am going to write every other day for 2 weeks. I'm gonna set the timer for 10 minutes and write about something...as soon as that time is up, I will stop and then continue two days later. So I encourage you to be checking my blog over the next 2 weeks as there will be many new posts!

So...here we go! Starting the timer....and GO!

Let me tell you, the past month has been very well..interesting here in marseille. As most of you know, our team in Marseille is a new one and so everything we do is an experiment of sorts. Sometimes we do things and they succeed, and other times we do things and find that there is no response. Two weeks ago we met to organize our information to start English clubs with the students in the area. Right now is a great time to start these conversational English classes as students are preparing for their oral english exams at the end of the term. We set up times for the meetings, someone made flyers, and set a date to go to the university. We went last wednesday to the campus and stood right outside the front gate near a bus stop with fliers and an information table. During our 4 hours of standing behind this table..we had one person stop by and take a flyer...the only person that signed up was this girl named Courtney Hail who had a peculiarly familiar email address! :-) Anyway, we ended up ending the day by placing some of our fliers around campus so that people might see them and sign up on our website.. I believe since that time we have had 1 or 2 people sign up for classes! Praise Jesus!!

Prayer: Please pray that we would be sensitive to Gods guidance as we try to
figure out how to use English clubs to reach out to the students here in
Marseille.

I have had the awesome opportunity to meet for the last few weeks with a girl "N" who has agreed to be my language partner! It is great to have conversation with someone who knows the culture some much better. Her family is not originally from France, but she has lived most of her life here. We usually meet for coffee or a coke at a cafe around the corner and just talk. We are only really supposed to meet for about an hour, but our last 2 talks have been 3 and 4 hours! Praise God! She speaks in English and I correct any mistakes I hear and I speak in French with her correcting my french. Last week her sister actually joined us and....


TIMES UP!!! more to come in 2 days! Love you all!