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This episode is a lot later than originally intended due to a slight technical hiccup !  

Today Gordon and I have spent the first day on our own since......way back!  In fact, this morning, in a rare idle moment I did the maths and by the end of the year we will have been resident in this house for 134 nights, physically present for 111,  and on our own in the house...i.e. without visitors...    for......   12 nights.( tonight will be the 10th)  

We spent a further 9 nights on our own in our house in Provence so that makes a grand total of 21 nights together out of the 134, Gordon had 2 nights away on his own in England for a meeting and I have escaped twice for 6 nights each time.    Wow.  

 12 nights of the 99 visitor nights we had single visitors and all the others  were in 2s,3s , 4s and twice   6.  Thrice wow!!!  

We're somewhat tired!

The best bit tho' is that there has been one visitor  who has been with us from the start..is indeed still with us, and I hope will continue to do so.  In every single meeting the Holy Spirit has been clearly present and we have seen the evidence in healings, prophetic words and songs and outpourings of joy.  Triple thrice wow.  This is why we're here. Tired, exhausted, still not unpacked and settled, but here because God asked us to come and He is doing what he said he would.  Watch this space!!!

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I'm late!  About four months late because we moved to Paris mid August!! I should've started this blog then but strangely enough I was a bit busy, what with moving from our house overlooking Lake Geneva...what a view!!!  to a house in Paris overlooking a large office block.....what a view.

'Why' asked many of our friends  ( the implication behind the polite question being ' why , when you're both retired, do you want to move from a wonderful house and garden in the wonderful Swiss Riviera to Paris...to a city.....thought you were planning to move to the south of France...!!!  Are you mad!!!)  Key word 'want'.  No, we certainly didn't want to move to a city, but,  next key word..God....He did want us to to and clearly and unexpectedly asked us to.

Flashback to the New Frontiers Leaders' Conference July 2007. Gordon spent 2 nights in a strange wakeful state where it seemed as if God was showing him events from the time he lived in Paris before and was part of the church Point du Jour.....which experienced an amazing outpouring of the presence of God. Although this anointing had subsequently been lost God was asking Gordon to return to Paris, to an area in the west clearly indicated by a finger on a map, to start a new church in our home, and to call it  Le Chemin, La Vèritiè et La Vie  (The Way, the Truth and the Life   John 14 v.6) because the anointing was still there although hidden and God wanted it to flow over Paris once more.  !!!  The morning after the last night Gordon told the Lord that if this was so would He please confirm in a manner SO clear that it would convince all concerned (not least me!!!) If this didn't happen then Gordon would assume it was him and not God and would box it all up!

Two hours later, in a seminar of 400 people ,  3  welknown and respected prophets called Gordon out and confirmed all that he'd experienced...including references to his time in Paris about which they could not have known.  Wow. And all that got recorded ! Fortunately!  When I heard the cd  I knew we'd got to go.  As a friend said to me later....'If God calls, you'd better go!!!'

A year now follows.....trips to Paris;  Gordon contacting old friends from Point du Jour days (no longer there many of them...the church there is much diminished), discussions with the small New Frontiers church already in Paris as to whether they would join in with us; discovering that George and Gill from the NF Coventry church,  had also been called by the Lord to move to Paris.. ( we'd prayed for an experienced pastor to join us); praying for a skilled worship leader and learning that Johan Sode and his wife Maryse had been called to leave their church in the east of Paris ( incidently, the church Gordon had planted over 20 years ago...) to complete the leadership team of Gordon ...lead elder and vision holder, George...pastor,  Johan ...worship. Add to this selling our house,and looking for another one....with a very big living room ( imagine the looks on the faces of the real estate agents...  retired couple...no children...why???

And here we are. In a house with 3 floors, which enabled us to turn the old apartment which was on the ground floor, into a meeting room of about 80m2,  hold our first meeting at the beginning of October and be up to 50 people at last sunday morning's meeting. 

How? Where??  Are we still sane??

Next episode...a bit later!!!