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Steve Petty/Mike Dummltt10020 Peeble Creek
Cincinnati, Ohio 45247
THE CHURCH OF CHRIST MEETS HERE
Ke fina lly found a small building torent in September. The rent
is 300dollars per month which is much cheaper than anything we saw.
The buildingis not right in the center of town butwe do have some
decent street parkingwhich we would not have had in town.
The building was actually a small factory so it looked basically
like agarage when we arrived. We spentSeptember thru aid-December
re-model-ing. The garage doors were replacedwith regular doors, the
walls wereplastered an d painted, new walls werebuilt to enclose
the bathroom, a dropceiling was installed, electric heatinstalled,
and the concrete floor wascarpeted. Here,is a list of.the
costincurred: doors*880, hea t ing 500, ce i l -ing^725,
carpet^300, everything else( wo o d , p a i n t , tools, e t c . )
^ 8 8 0 . Wedid all the labor ourselves exceptthe electrical work
which had to be
done f ay a certified electricien whichcos t^SSO. Another e x p
e n s e was forcha i r s , 3 0 chai rs were bought for^3 80.We
figured tha t in renting the cheaperbuilding we will have paid for
the remodeling in two years and many of theitems purchased can be
taken with us ifwe were to change buildings in the future such as:
heaters, drop ceiling, ca rpet, and even the doors and of courseany
furniture. A minimum of re-modelingwould have had to be done no
matter v/hatwe rented in order to accomodate our
purposes. We still need to build dividers since the space v / e
have is just onelarge room (5yds x 10 yds) and we stillneed to buy
a couple pieces of furnitureand about 20 chairs so if you have
aSunday School class that would like aproject, here's one. We met
forWorship every Sunday in spite ofthe re-modeling process but our
firstpublic meeting in the completedbuilding was our Christmas
concertjust before Christmas. I will bestarting the process of
getting usrecognized as a legal non-profitassociation (a Church) in
France an dhopefully this will all be completedin March sometime.
It should be
just a matter of paper work but whoknows what kind of red-tape
we willrun into.
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CHRISTMAS SING-ALONG
D u r i n g t h e C h r i s t m a s s e a s o n we h a d a
sing-along in which we presented theChristmas story through song
a n d scripture. We sang several carols in eng-lish that we
couldn't find translatedin french and then the sing-along partwas
in french as well as the scripturereadings. I closed with a
devotionconcerning t h e importance of Christ'sb i r t h as opposed
to t h e birth o f othergreat men. We h a d fifteen visitors a n dt
h e y m a y h a v e r e c o g n i z e d o n l y two o ft h e songs
even though they h a v e b e e ncatholic since birth. They tried
to
s i n g a l o n ganyv/ay a n d a f t e rv / a rds
e v e r yo n e e n j o y e d t h e t y p i c a l a m e r i c a n
C h r i s tmas desserts that the gals had prepared.
WHY ARE YOU HERE?
T h i s i s t h e q u e s t i o n t h a t p e o p l e a l w a ya
s k us. Also some p e o p l e who read our
u p d a t e s ask the s t i m e ques t ion . Non-c h r i s t i a
n s a n d n c n i n a l C h r i s t i a n s i nAmerica as well as i
n France think v ; eare here simply to get members in ourChurch.
Even Churches which supportnission work often display that attitude
in saying that we want to seenumbers, meaning n e w c h u r c h
membersf o r t h e m o n e y w e s e n d t o o u r m i s s i o
naries. This of course is true, wo dowant new members for our
Churches buta v e r y i m p o r t a n t a s p e c t n e e d s t o b
eb r o u g h t o u t . We a r e n o t h e r e s i m p l y
t o g e t a g r o u p of p e o p l e t o g e t h e r w h ohave
decided to believe t h e same t h i n ewe do, we a r e h e r e t o
s a v e p e o p l e fronj u d g e m e n t a n d H e l . ; by shar
ing t h e LOVIof Christ with them. Getting membersis cold and even
. s e l f i s h if not accom-n a n i e d b y G o d ' s ro.lvation.
I f youi znrl-^our 5 l ^ - T . c j t - T > i n i r i 7 - D Td e
t a d mcwhy we are i n F r i m c r e or w h \ any mi ss i o n a r y
i s where l i e i s m a y b e i t ' s b e
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TEAM NEWS TEAM NEWS
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TEAM NEWS
Joni is pregnant so Zacharie willhave a brother or sister some
time 5Feb. *89 since there is no otherpossibility and Joni asked
all topray for a girl. Zacharie ismeaner than a snake but a
prettygood boy. l i e had his first twostitches on July 25th. He
tripped into a concrete step and hithis lip. The Dr. put two
stitcheson the inside of the lip but before we got l iome Zacharie
hadsucked or pulled one of them out.Looks like it is going to
healv/ i th out a scar. M a inaw & PapawPetty visited with us
in June &July (5 weeks) ;needless to say,they enjoyed Zacharie
and viceversa. The memories made v;hile
they v;ere here should carry usall through to next summer
wlienwe will be home for furlougli.Now for news from the rest
of
the team: Tlie Wood family willbe returning to the States inAug.
'88 with plans to return toFrance in Sept. '89. We are gladthat
they have deciced to comeback and as) ; your prayers asthey will be
completing theirsupport over t l i i s next year.Also in the same
situation isKaren Ricliardson, who v/ill be
leaving us in Sept. '88 to re-~
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