The Mylins in Montauban

January 2011
webmaster of the church website. I’m also visiting church
Happy New Year! NOT… members and getting back in touch with acquaintances in the
area.
This morning the radio announced that the
French are the world champions of
pessimism. With a good standard of living, a Epiphany
beautiful country, great food… how could
this be?! January 6 marks the
Western church holiday
[French newspaper] Le Parisien leads with celebrating the arrival
the headline “How the world sees the of the magi in
future”. The paper reports on a BVA- Bethlehem and their
GALLUP survey carried out among 64 visit to Jesus, Mary &
thousand people in 53 countries which
Joseph. Here in
places the French at the top of the league
France, during about a
table for pessimism. Almost two out of
month, this holiday is
three French people - 61 per cent -
believe 2011 will bring economic
traditionally celebrated
difficulties, one in three feel their with a special pastry
situation will worsen. One of the paper’s known as the “galette des rois” (“The kings cake”) or in the
articles is headlined “We’re the world Southwest with the “coque des rois”. The galette is a baked
champions for pessimism”. It quotes a flakey pastry stuffed with almond paste and the coque is a round
psychiatrist Serge Hefez saying the French brioche decorated with sugar crystals or candied fruit. The
feel that the state, which usually protects galette is served with a sparkling wine or hard cider for adults.
people, has abandoned them. * Especially for children (of all ages!) the baker hides a small
porcelain or metal figurine (“fève”) in the pastry. Whoever finds
The state, the family, the schools may fail, the fève in his portion
but the Creator God is faithful in seeking gets to wear the gold
and saving rebels from alienation and from paper crown that
his justice.  Pray for believers and the comes with every
church in France to have courage and the galette or coque.
words to announce the good news of Jesus This week, we are
Christ. inviting several
neighbor families to
* From the website: France24 share a galette (or
http://www.france24.com/en/20110103-press- two or three) with us.
review-france-opinion-pessimism-coptic-christian- It will be a way to get
dassault-budget-optimism) to know them better and we thought we’d read a story from the
Bible from around the time of Jesus’ birth.

Since our return to Montauban,  Pray that we might have an open door to speak of the hope
Mark has preached several times, has we have in Jesus Christ with our neighbors and other friends.
started up a home Bible study group and is
visiting church members as well as meeting Your partners in the gospel,
with members of the church council. We
are both involved in organizing and running Mark & Marti Mylin
a day-long Bible and Theology Conference
that takes place every January at our
church. I have taken on the job of

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