Bonjour!
We made it
safely to France on Tuesday, June 21st, after almost 23 hours of travel.
We left Norfolk via Amtrak shuttle bus at 7:40am and were dropped off at
the Amtrak station in Newport News. We boarded the train at 9:15 and then
traveled laboriously up to Union Station in Washington DC, where we barely made
our Super Shuttle pick-up at 2:05pm. Two more minutes and he would have left us
to figure something else out. We then worked our way across downtown DC
to pick up another couple before we could finally head towards Dulles airport
and our plane. The van was quite the experience as every few minutes the
air would stop working and the heat would start. It made for some
miserable 50+ minutes. We arrived at Dulles almost 30 minutes behind what
we should have been and the check-in was time consuming but when we printed out
our boarding passes; well that's when the Lord truly smiled upon us because we
all had TSA Pre ✔ and the
line was almost completely empty!! Praise Jesus! Our flight was
fairly uneventful, small pockets of turbulence but nothing major. We
arrived in Paris on time and to clouds and rain. We stayed inside the
airport and waited over 3 hours to take an almost 2 hour train ride to St.
Pierre de Corps. The train was amazing. Extremely quiet and very
fast. I mean, very fast! It was like nothing I had ever been on before.
We were met by George and Sheryl who then drove us another 1 1/2 hours to
the towns of Buzancais (bu•zan•say) & Souge (sue•jay). The jewelry
store that they are converting into a place of Worship is in Buzancais, and the
farmhouse is in Souge. We had some time of prayer in both places and then
headed to bed. Wednesday we woke to a beautiful, warm day and enjoyed
eating our breakfast outside, were we enjoyed fresh French pastries. Can
you say YUM! We then divided up into 3 teams: Barry, Arnold, and
George to the store to do electrical work; Jamie, Sheryl, and I to the store to
clean out some cobwebs; Juli and Emma stayed at the farmhouse and put together
the goodie bags that we will give to the women that attend the fellowship
Friday evening. Until tomorrow...........Au revior
France Team
Emma, Barry,
Arnold, Juli, Dorie, and Jamie