Sunday, August 10, 2008

Bonjour,

We had a good morning at church. The attendance was down again due to
vacation and sickness.

Marcel, the teacher for the teenagers, was sick today. So, Joe had the
adults and the teens for Sunday school. Romeo preached the morning
message. Lenell and I had 25 in our class.

Joe preached this evening. He and Romeo took the people that were at
church tonight to visit some of the people who are sick. They visited
Mr. Kesse and a lady named Adele. Adele thinks that someone poisoned her.

Please continue to pray for Mr. Kesse. He is home from the hospital,
but he is not doing very well. He has lost a lot of weight. He
recognizes people now, but the things that he says don't make any
sense. It might be the medications that he is taking that is causing this.

Marc, one of the teenage boys in the church, had run away from home.
His mother is dead, and he lives with his father, who had not seen him
from the time that he was 4 until he was 14. His father's girlfriend
had been stealing his lunch money. To get back at her, he told her that
someone wanted to see her outside. He locked her out of the house, ate
all of the food, took her money, and went out the back window, locking
it behind him. They had to break the door down to get back inside. Joe
and Romeo saw Marc on the way to church. He was walking down a side
road, and Romeo saw him. Romeo called his name, and Marc started
running. Romeo said, "You can run, but you can't hide." Marc turned
around and came to the vehicle with his head hanging down. After
church, Joe and Romeo took him back home. No one was at his house, but
they talked to Marc for quite awhile. They told him that he couldn't do
the things that he had done just because the lady had done him wrong.
Maybe they were able to help him.

Gilbert was counting tonight. He came up with a new number. He said,
"Forty, fifty, ninety, tendy!"

A demain,

Joe, Laura, Gilbert, Danny, and Bonnie