New blog address

To all (or should I say both?) of our friends who are following this blog via a blog reader, we want you to know that we are now using a different blog. We have recently updated our ministry website and that has necessitated the change. If you put http://www.hopeforfrance.org/bixby-news/ into your rss feed service (bloglines, etc.), you should receive notifications of our future posts.
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The distance between our gate and garage door...

... is just right!!
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Trip to Northern France, part 2

I was honored to be invited by missionary Kim Fox and l’Eglise Biblique Baptiste de Rouen to speak for their annual church retreat. The two-day retreat was held at a small conference center about an hour out of Rouen and halfway between that city and Paris in a little village called Corny. (Thankfully, the town did not live up to its name.) We spent a delightful time with the small group of
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Trip to Northern France, part 1

We made a last-minute decision to leave a day early on our trip to Rouen and headed to Paris last Tuesday evening to see the city. To our children, Paris meant the Eiffel Tower--nothing more, nothing less. Ruth had only ever seen a couple of sites in Paris during a short layover on a train trip we took back in 2000. The children had never been outside of the airport.We saw what we wanted to see:
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Pictures of our home in France

Well, it's not yet ready for Southern Living magazine, but we are mostly installed in our new home, and so I thought I'd share some pictures of the interior for those of you who might be interested to see it. There are still some finishing touches to do (aren't there always?), but it really does feel like home now. (click here to view full-screen slideshow)
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