Lost Sheep Returns; In Flanders’s Fields; Gorges de La Bourne
Our Church Week —We are still traveling quite a bit with one more week to go. It will be interesting to see our mileage by mission’s end. Certainly these past few weeks will bring the average up. We were just commenting how we seem to be in another phase. The beginning weeks and months brought about a lot of change. After a few months we were able to “settle in” and to a rhythm. Sometimes the phases are clearly marked by an event, other times by the close of a certain long-term task that ends or a holiday period begins, certainly the beginning and end of a school year mark time, and sometimes we seem to just find ourselves in another phase via hindsight. This week and today at Church, we definitely feel another phase of growth; we can just look back and see how we, as a Branch, have grown—yes in numbers, but definitely in spirituality. With Marc’s assignment as Branch President (Pastor), our weeks are defined by Sundays. But the Mission is defined by tra