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We're in the Big Leagues now!

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Our Church week —Looking back over our 6 months in France, and in terms of Church, you could say we are “settled into our routine.” Technically, we’ve been here 7 months....but Marc only claims 6 months, since he was in bed to varying degrees all of February.  Once his feet hit the ground and for the first several months, there were lots of changes made. Every week brought some new administrative change, new assignments or restructuring of the Church schedule and programs. It was a lot.  Almost every week something old was tweaked or something new was introduced.  We’ve felt the support from the Branch as changes were made. It could not have been easy, but openly and willingly the changes have been embraced.   A branch is one of the smaller congregational/ecclesiastical units. In a branch, there are always the innate challenges trying to run all the programs with few numbers. Sometimes we have to modify or pinch-hit if someone is on vacation or gone a particular week.  Many do the