Happy Christmas

Hi, everyone, I just wanted to wish you all a Happy Christmas.

Our church joined with another church in Walsall to do a presentation in one of the suites at Walsall Football Stadium. We had a mix of carols, songs and drama and it rocked (especially the drummer!). We had about 1000 people come over the last two nights as many people brought family and friends to hear the real message of Christmas. Lots to thank God for! This Saturday we have a brass band concert and on Sunday two evangelistic services so would continue to appreciate your prayers.

I hope you have a great Christmas and know many blessings in the new year.

Lots of Love,

Sam x

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Rock me . . . again ! M4TS II

ARE YOU READY TO ROCK ?!

Château-Gontier-daily-photo

I've found this blog about - Château-Gontier-daily-photo

What a great idea.

Last Chance gig

The concert went well yesterday :-) There were between 20 & 30 people present, so not necessarily a massive audience, but then the church room would probably only about 50, so we were quite happy :-)

We did 18 songs in total, mainly our own stuff (including LAISSE MOI which I'm sure you all remember) and we had the opportunity to share about our faith in Jesus and how that translates into our lives.

It was cool, and it was excellent to be able to support the church in Alençon. Here's a link to the church website : http://perso.orange.fr/cpe.alencon

AND FINALLY . . .
I managed to convert the Powerpoint presentationt that Dave did of m4ts into a Flash file. . . and here it is :-) (Still a few glitches to iron out, but at least you can look at it now.)

Stade Rennais Football Club -

This is Christian team - what a great game - click the link to see the highlights

Stade Rennais Football Club - Site Officiel - Saison > 2007/2008 > Ligue 1 Orange - > 11ème Journée > Stade Rennais F.C. / Le Mans

Last Chance concert

Hiya !

Just thought I'd let you know that Mike & I are performing as Last Chance at a small church in Alençon, not far from Mortagne au Perche (!) next Wednesday 24th October. We'd appreciate your prayers for a great evening concerning a willing public, a good performance and clear communication ;-)

Take care dudes,

Chris

m4ts updates!

Hi everybody,

I've just managed a way of getting updates from the blog, over on the right-hand side of the page. Just type in the email address you want the updates sent to and you'll know straight away when anyone updates the blog !

Apart from that, hope you're all doing okay? You could spare a thought and a prayer for Alison as she is undergoing some tests for a stomach problem which doesn't want to sort itself out.

God bless,
Chris

me blathering again

hey me again.... so yeh remember I told you me and a friend were hoping to set up street work to clean up and reach out to people in Glasgow.... haha .. well we have had so much positive response from councellors, churches and the University that its all been a bit overwhelming.... We have been invited along to several councel meetings were we have to present our ideas and be asked questions. We both feel like little children pretending to be grown up. The amount of paper work and health and safety stuff we have to get up and running is crazy also. So don't know why I thought i'd tell you guys this but any advice would be great!?Hope your all well and thanks once again for being so inspiring and fun when we were in Laval which seems like an eternity ago!

Friday before saturday

Nice to read what some of you up to. We had a great church week end in Dinan. Sunny, fun, challenging.. Some strange activities on the Sunday afternoon !! What do you think we got up to??
Mike

Power of prayer

Hi, everyone,

Good to hear from you. I like the blog Dave and all the photos.

Was disappointed not to have won the prize (!) but then I'm not likely to recognise Edinburgh as I've never been there!

Just wanted to ask for your prayers as we've got a week of prayer and fasting coming up next week and we're going to have lots of teaching especially on fasting. It'll be good to spend more time asking, seeking and knocking and praying that it will give us a greater hunger to know God more.

Miss you guys lots but glad that we can pray.

from Argentré

Thanks for your updates.
Prize goes to Iain who recognised Edinburgh, well he ought to honestly! (sorry Sam)
We enjoyed the tour in the Scottish sunshine!
The prize? A reduction for next years Music 4 the soul!! (1 euro) but I'll cook some flapjacks for you!!
Will be praying for your respective uni start-ups. Some of us have been at it for a while already!
Church weekend this weekend, hope the sun keeps up it's prolonged appearance. Summer got here a bit late.
Look forward to reading you and to hear the song that my son's bedroom inspired!!!
Alison

Summer is over....

hello pals!

So I have now moved back to Glasgow again and am living with two friends in a flat on Byrs Road!! It was hard saying goodbye to my mum but I am settling down quite well really. A couple of us from the CU here are trying to get street work started in a poor area of Glasgow called Maryhill where we had our halls of residence last year. It seems such a massive task at the minute but I just pray that God will help me use my time wisely as I seem to have so many commitments here. I also have big decisions to make as to what country I am going to move to next year as part of my language course. I really wanna use it to serve God but no idea how to start working out what he wants! I also am trying to get involved in some sort of church music because I had so much fun with you guys.
So yeah.. quite a daunting, confusing time is Uni so your prayers would be highly valued!
I hope your all looking after yourselfs and your people!
Keep posting, its really nice to hear from you guys
Clare McB!

greeting from Scotland

Hi folks! how are we all doing? summer is drawing to a close sadly for myself, going back to uni in october :(
Hows everyones talents going? Let the guys in my band hear a song i wrote in mike n alisons son room n they really like it so hopefully we will be puttin the finishin touches to that n playin it the next time we perform. its all bout the job we have as christains to spread the word of the gospel to ever corner of the earth n how its the only thing in the world worth writing home about. its called "this job".
Was workin away hard yesterday on the farm n i just remembered that we vocal warm up song thing we done with the 3 parts n started singin it n my uncle thought i had a screw loose hahaha fun times!
O another thing i must mention is the tartan armys victory over france last week:) C'MOM MCFADDEN!!! lets hope our rugby team can show the same results!
Anyway i must get back, keep up the commenting people its been great reading bout life back home!
speak soon:)

Not sure if this will work, but give it a go and tell me what you find

sunday evening

Lovely to read some of your postings this evening, food for the soul.

Getting back into some sort of routine with kids activities started up and all the accompanying taxiing! Even my wee one has started football!

We are looking forward to welcoming a christian assistante in a fortnight. It seems that most years someone comes along. Zoe has already been in touch and we are really encouraged by that. We are praying for more young people to encourage those in the youth group.

Love to hear how you are getting on. HOw is the Scottish contingent? and the music?

Keep us informed. Prize for those who recognise where my three boys are!!

Love Alison

belated pots ;-)

hello friends! Hope all is well. I am hoping to get some brill photos up soon. Really missing the fun we had! Keep in touch,
Clare

update

Hi all

Just wanted you to know that we had a great time with you all. Always amazed how the Lord manages to place us in families wherever we are in the world. After we finished the mission Dave and I stayed on in Besouges (nr.Chateau Gontier), did some sightseeing, went on a church picnic, had dinner with Christian and Catherine and visited some beautiful places. We had been praying about moving to France within the next 2/3 years (after Lucy finishes at uni) and think we may have found where - so if the church at Laval would like two emigres........... Anyway would appreciate prayer for this and if you feel the Holy Spirit saying anything about this matter, let us know.

Wanted to thank you all for what you have taught us. From each person we were made aware of your beauty in Christ: collectively we learned from you all patience, fun, humility, hospitality, creativity, forebearance, kindness, peace (in fact all the fruits of the Spirit) and a lot about Psalm 150!

Be great to keep in touch

Love

Carol and Dave

My King !

Just checking to make sure everyone can post videos :) Here is an excellent one that Fred from church used on the Sunday you guys were all here.

back home

Finally back home after a long round trip via motherwell, crieff, edinburgh, cardiff, london, ramsgate... It was great to see all our coworkers at the GLO Retreat and catch up on all that God is doing throughout Europe. Then we went to Edinburgh and stayed with Grant & Karen who kindly opened their home to the five of us. We had a great few days and Benjamin was able to see Napier Uni as he would like to study sports science and quite probably in Scotland. We were even able to catch up with friends we worked with in Marseille. Paul & Isobel were just back from their son's Scotts wedding ( which Sébastien went to).
I was able to travel down to Cardiff and spend a weekend with Alison's commending church Leckwith. Keith & Sheila really spoilt me during my stay with them. It was so good to meet up with friends that have faithfully supported us during our 22 years in France.
Next stop Ramsgate and a couple of days with my Mum who had a few jobs for me to do in the house. My nephew Denison and his Mum and stepdad came over for coffee. It was great to be able to speak to Denison and hear from him how he has been coping with such difficult circomstances. He has his own web page with "His story" on line to raise money for cancer research, it was very moving to read and we continue to pray for him.
Back to piles of post so I'll sign off now

Rrrruuuubbish in the bin !

Mortagne sur Perche

Hi, just thought you might like to know . . .

You remember at the Mortagne gig, Michaël the main guy from the church, invited the audience to a bbq to be held a week or two later ? Well, several people who came to the concert turned up at the bbq! Excellent ! Obviously Michaël was well chuffed, as they were people he'd met for the first time at the gig ! Wahey !! God is good :)

Videos & pics & posts

Hi everybody,

How's it going ? Are you managing to get the vids & pics on that you want ? Don't forget that you can use Youtube.com if you want to load a video on easilly, the only concession is that it has to be under 100 MB. Once it's on Youtube, which works quite quickly, you just have to copy the code which begins with "object....." or "embed....." and then paste the code into the text section of your Post :)

Apart from that, hope you're all doing okay. We're going to have an addition to the family soon ! A little HAMSTER !!! But don't tell Evelyne, it's her birthday present ;)

Hi, everyone,

Hope you are all well and have enjoyed the rest of the summer. I enjoyed time away in Teignmouth for a week and we had a childrens mission in Walsall at the end of August. I'm now getting ready to go back to school. It's amazing what a difference having two days a week off makes! There is a lot to look forward to in the coming months. Stuart Townend will be visiting us in October to do a concert so we are currently selling tickets which seem to be going very fast already!

I have tried to link a video clip onto the blog and have got as far as putting it on Youtube. If anyone knows what to do please could you explain to me simply :) Thanks.

Continue to look forward to your comments and updates.

Lots of love,

Sam

keep us up to date with your goings on

Hi everyone, back to earth with a bump after a few days in bonny Scotland. We were able to share with GLO how well the team had gone and what a wonderful lot you were.
I've left Mike in Britain doing some meetings so when the cat's away the mouse will play! Just kidding. Boys in the process of going back to school except Sébastien who has just started a temp job...praise the Lord.
Alison

The band all here

Thanks Chris, I can now start entering suff - what do say!- oh two of my pictures....

Hi Everyone,

We just got back from Britain and having a great time with family and friends. Here's a note from Gordon & June

Dear friends,

We enjoyed so much being part of the team! It was a great time of
service and fellowship. We had a very enjoyable few days in the London
area just after leaving Laval.

We moved house on Aug. 13! Our new address is: 36 Avonbridge Drive,
Hamilton ML3 7EJ (in fact, it is a return to the address where we used
to live and from which we had to move due to building work). Tel. no.
is unchanged.

God bless,

Gordon & June Leiper

cute!

proud to be from the midlands hey?

It was gigantic but didn't stop Ian appreciating the local beer!

Thanx 4 all your comments, keep them coming;If I, a blogger dimwit, can add comments and photos I'm sure you all can!
We saw Patrick and Céline yesterday and they were asking after you all. if you want to keep in touch we can give you their e mail.

Are those 'v' for victory or...?

Whoses the culprit?

Do they really know what they're doing? "Which knob was it again?"

Gottcha!

Inky Pinky.......?

Some more photos........ still haven't worked out how to add video clips.


5 .... 4 ..... 3 .... 2 ..............1

Hi everyone!

Hi everyone!! Hope y'all got home ok, I'm missing France, the mission and everyone so much!! I learned a lot about my faith and how God works while in France but I also learned a lot about myself and I have everyone to thank for that! You all affected me in your own special way and I am truly grateful!
Hope to keep in touch with all of you!
take care
love saraxx

finaly av had a chance to come on n look at the m4s blog! looking fabtastic! thanks to all for an amazing time, jsut hope its not the last time i see u all! am off to church, untill my next post ...

cya

Concert in Avrille

Lots of practice

Rock me again..........

Twins??

The Coathanger

Don't forget the valuable lessons we learnt, especially in correct posture as demonstrated by Mikal, the one who leads by example!

Was that English beef on the BBQ ?!

Psalm 150

Praise the Lord

Praise God in his sanctuary;
praise him in his mighty heavens.

Praise him for his acts of power;
praise him for his surpassing greatness.

Praise him with the sounding of trumpets,
praise him with the harp and lyre,
praise him with tambourine and dancing,
praise him with the strings and flute,
praise him with the clash of cymbals,
praise him with resounding cymbals.

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.

Praise the Lord!

(I'm sure we all know it of by heart now........)
(P.S doesn't the word "praise" start to look funny when it's repeated that many times or is it just me....)

Putting a photo in your profile

Just in case you felt like putting a photo to you name, or any other picture : you need to upoload it to somewhere on the internet (like www.photobucket.com) and then in 'edit profile' type or paste the link to the image.

If I'm stating the obvious, sign in and tell me ;)

Posting

Just in case any of you are unfamiliar with this type of blog : If you want to leave a message, just create a 'post', if you want to comment on a message, click on 'comments'. If you want to put your photos on the blog, click on the picutre icon ( ) after choosing 'new post' and upload your pics ! You can choose the size in the upload box, and then order them as you plese. If you want to put videos on, the easiest is probably photobucket.com or youtube.com. The blog host has a direct link with youtube.com. If you go to http://crize2foi.blogspot.com you'll see how it turns out :)

Happy posting !

anyone there?

Hi everyone, it's great to be able to use this method, if I manage to get it to work to be able to communicate with you all. I shall put my photos on but will need to sort them out as there are probably more than 200!
Thanks again for making this GLO team SO memorable. I can't explain really why I got emotional, never happened before! you must be just Xtra special.
Look foraward to seeing your comments,
God bless
Alison
PS I've got my little boy back and he was pleasd to see me!

At Gary & Val's

Photos

Before I post any more photos, thought I should just give credit to the photographer :) Thanks for all the pics Dave !

And finally !

And more BBQ photos!