Home Sweet Home
Saturday, Feb. 11, 2006
Home sweet home! It felt wonderful to come home to my apartment last weekend after two weeks of sleeping in a strange bed. It’s funny, isn’t it, how much your own space means to you. I just moved into this apartment six weeks ago, and already it feels like a haven. Of course, I had to spend my first day in the “haven” watering plants, dusting, and doing laundry, after being away so long!
The rest of the week I worked at CVA. CVA stands for “Christ Vous Appel” or Christ is calling you, and is a multi-media ministry of the Assemblies of God of France. It broadcasts Christian radio programs on certain radio stations in France, sells French translations of popular Christian books, maintains a Christian website, and more.
The director, Laurent Guillet, is a former AG pastor and missionary to Morocco from the French AG. He has a real heart for Muslims and would like to use the resources of CVA to back the projects of IC France, a Muslim ministry started by a missionary with the American AG, Sobhi Malek. When Dr. Malek chose to leave France after years of ministry to Muslims, he gave the ministry over to the French Assemblies of God, and Laurent Guillet is the man with the vision to see it continue and expand in new areas, particularly on the internet.
I am assigned to work with IC France, especially through this transition period. However, the IC France office in Marseille has not yet moved to Bordeaux, where Laurent lives and operates our sister ministry CVA. So for the moment, I lived in Bordeaux, but have a job in Marseille, six hours away. In a few months, it will all be sorted out, but to fill my time, I volunteer at CVA most of the time, helping in the offices, and travel to Marseille one week a month to work with the team there.
CVA has its own organized work system and three ladies who run the office there with efficiency. I help file paperwork, make photocopies, and stuff flyers with inserts—basically things I can do with limited French, and they figure I can’t mess up! Working there with them is an opportunity to practice French and learn about the workings of the French Assemblies of God, from the inside. But I will be glad when the IC France office moves in the summer and I can focus more on the Muslim ministry I feel called to.
Home sweet home! It felt wonderful to come home to my apartment last weekend after two weeks of sleeping in a strange bed. It’s funny, isn’t it, how much your own space means to you. I just moved into this apartment six weeks ago, and already it feels like a haven. Of course, I had to spend my first day in the “haven” watering plants, dusting, and doing laundry, after being away so long!
The rest of the week I worked at CVA. CVA stands for “Christ Vous Appel” or Christ is calling you, and is a multi-media ministry of the Assemblies of God of France. It broadcasts Christian radio programs on certain radio stations in France, sells French translations of popular Christian books, maintains a Christian website, and more.
The director, Laurent Guillet, is a former AG pastor and missionary to Morocco from the French AG. He has a real heart for Muslims and would like to use the resources of CVA to back the projects of IC France, a Muslim ministry started by a missionary with the American AG, Sobhi Malek. When Dr. Malek chose to leave France after years of ministry to Muslims, he gave the ministry over to the French Assemblies of God, and Laurent Guillet is the man with the vision to see it continue and expand in new areas, particularly on the internet.
I am assigned to work with IC France, especially through this transition period. However, the IC France office in Marseille has not yet moved to Bordeaux, where Laurent lives and operates our sister ministry CVA. So for the moment, I lived in Bordeaux, but have a job in Marseille, six hours away. In a few months, it will all be sorted out, but to fill my time, I volunteer at CVA most of the time, helping in the offices, and travel to Marseille one week a month to work with the team there.
CVA has its own organized work system and three ladies who run the office there with efficiency. I help file paperwork, make photocopies, and stuff flyers with inserts—basically things I can do with limited French, and they figure I can’t mess up! Working there with them is an opportunity to practice French and learn about the workings of the French Assemblies of God, from the inside. But I will be glad when the IC France office moves in the summer and I can focus more on the Muslim ministry I feel called to.