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Half way through
We’re half way through the internship (scary!) and in one of our teaching sessions this week the nine of us gave three words each to sum up how we’re feeling. The following featured amongst the 27 words: appreciative, growth, anticipating, challenged, oscillating, positive, confused, hopeful and natural.
It’s been quite a year so far and all of us have learnt and experienced so much. We’re still fully aware, however, that there is so much more for God to do in and through us and that’s really exciting! With the mission trip to France, June Project, more theology and Bible study and outreach in nice weather (shock horror!) on the horizon, we’re looking forward to the months to come, but before all that, on to what’s been happening this week...
After quiet week last week, we’ve come whizzing into a ‘normal’ week. Placements in schools and teaching with Mark and Ruth are back up and running and we’ve all been getting back into the swing of things. The week started with the Sunday morning service and setting up for baptisms. How amazing it was to hear testimonies of how God has been at work in each person’s life. And hearing the news that baby Bailey (or rather Anna Bailey) was born earlier that morning made the celebration of Jenny, Sally, Dave and Alex’s baptisms, and the symbolism of this marking the start of a new life, all the more poignant.
Along with our usual teaching slots and placements, we’ve had a language lesson this week. Knowing that speaking English slowly and more loudly will simply not do on our mission trip to France at the end of March, we’re having French lessons with Hannah Juby. And it’s certainly good fun! Such looks of bewilderment haven’t been seen flashing between interns since the first few weeks of learning how to set up a Sunday morning service back in September. Our understanding of French ranges from A Level standard to never having spoken it before so it’s been interesting!
We’ve learnt such important phrases as ‘Please can you repeat that?’, ‘Where are the toilets?’ and ‘I’m dairy intolerant, does the food have milk in it?’ The next lesson we’ll be learning how to talk about Jesus in French and hopefully we’ll be able to remember the important bits!
Next week we’re off to Leicestershire for a 3-day conference (the second part of the one we went on in September) and we would all appreciate your prayers for the time we spend away. Please pray that God will meet with us and that we will be open to hear from Him.
That’s all folks.
Au revoir! (...I hope that’s right!)