France Continues

September 17, 2016

        We spent Monday thru Wednesday working on the doors of the offices upstairs & downstairs.
Wednesday we prepared the chapel for the first meeting of Franck's desire to have the churches in the area join together in prayer and the first sermon was on:  "The Holy Spirit Burns Within Me".
Thursday evening there were 35 people from the area churches and we had to bring in chairs.  Praise
the Lord !!     In this service Franck had special times of prayer for areas in the lives of the people.
Several people received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit that evening.  The presence of the LORD was
so real & strong and others were healed & hearts were touched.
Alot of the churches in France only preach salvation and there is not discipleship taught or how to
live the Christian life thru Christ.    Therefore Franck has a great desire & calling  to teach/train these
 people in other areas of Christianity and growth.    He has written "many" books and video series
to equip the churches.    We can see a hunger from Thursday night in the people already.

Ken had his first experience of putting up French wallpaper in a small area of the print shop for
practice.   Monday we will start the two walls in the chapel, removing the old paper and installing
the new wallpaper.   Pray for us...... lol       Here in France they do not texture the walls instead they
wallpaper with textured standared white paper & paint the wallpaper.
Below are some pictures of this week.    We both find it really enjoyable & fun to work with Franck
as he is the "worker bee" !!!!   Anytime you see him he is in FULL RUN !!!!   I told Franck I sure
want to watch Ken keep up with you.   As all of you know how methodical,  calm and easy going
Ken is and Franck is running full force.......   :)   Gotta see it to understand !

 Ken putting together a stand for Fracnk

 Lillianna (Franck's wife ) showing him the toilet seat she wants installed

 LOOOOK  at Franck and his funny face !!  He likes to "pose"   lol

 Picture of Azuza Street Revival 

 Sign Franck has displayed about the series:  Holy Spirit Burn in me

Praying for the people that came forward to reeive the Holy Spirit !!

Ministry center work day

September 12, 2016

  We had a wonderful day of worship, communion, and working with the children on Sunday.

          What a great day we had today as we painted the 8 doors upstairs in the ministry center.

Start the day with prayer, work,  lunch and work.    Then Ed took us to 2 different grocery stores

here and it was really nice to see them both oh and a store like office depot.

Tomorrow we will start the downstairs doors and then next wk we will work on the chapel with the

wallpaper.  

Our time is going fast here and the Buck Family is sooo gracious and accomodating with us.

Now we will post a few pictures of our week-end and work.

God Bless & Thank you all for the prayers,

Peggy
Ken  :)

 Marlene' showing model of Ze Bus used for ministry

 Recording studio for teaching and ministry

Troyes old city tour

September 3, 2016

Toured the old city today before heading to Normandy tomorrow evening. Saw some magnificent cathedrals, cafe's, and city life. Will definately return to do more touring. Below are a few of the sites we saw.

City sights

 St. Peter and St. Paul Cathedral

Tomb stone in cathedral, people wanted to be buried in cathedral to be in church when Jesus returns

 Old style house

One of many "leaning houses" due to settling

 Bones of a Saint, can now be an official relic of the church

Another "leaning house"

"Lady with Big Hat" sculpture

Ministry Center

September 1, 2016

And Peggy continues her blog.!

HaPpY September !!!

Today we had the most wonderful day !!  Went to the ministry center for prayer at 9 am then a tour of the ministry center in Troyes.   This center was founded by a French Pastor/Evangelist to reach out to the French churches and other churches around the world.  He is a prolific writer and his name is:   Franck Alexandre and his wife's name is Liliana.

As he has preached in churches around the world, especially France, he saw that there was a great need for training/educational training materials for the church.  So as the Holy Spirit annointed him he began to write and has written & published over 100 books.  The ministry center does all in-house printing and publishing of the materials including the production of the books he has written.

In addition, the center produces TV and internet programs and thought for the day devotional for France.
Should the Lord lay it on your hearts, volunteers are welcomed to come and work at the center.

The ministry center also has a great bus/evangelism ministry which is allowed to go to surrounding cities to offer coffee and talk to the people about the Lord.  Then they show them a video of people on the streets responding to the question, "Who do you say Jesus is?"  Since the bus is registered as an RV, it has easy access to enter a city and park on the streets and reach people with the Living Word of God.

Ken will be doing alot of work in the center to update and remodel some of the rooms.   Also the recording studios and doors will get a facelift.

Below are some pictures of our experience today of the tour.

Then Ken & I were escorted to the local grocery by Jeanne (middle child) to pick up a few items and we were overwhelmed by her ability to HELP us in the store with the food items and her French with the cashier.  It truly was a great experience.

Spent the evening playing FuN games with the children and we had a blast with them !!!  Great kids

Liliana in publishing center 

 Franck and Liliana with us at the coffee house bus

 Ken checking out the tool room

Franck (Evangelist) and Ed Buck (Missionary) in TV studio

 Discussing renovations for the chapel

Franck recording another episode in the studio