La maison du vin

I'm sorry that it's been a whole week since we last posted anything. It's been a crazy few days for us. On Monday, a new group of students arrived. They all got here safely, and are still a bit jet-lagged, I think, but are doing well. I went to Paris on Monday to help pick up all the students, so it was a long day for me, as we are about 3 or so hours from Paris, and I had to stay late and pick up a student and take the train back. But it was an even longer day for Amber, who had to stay here and help with all of the meals, as well as change beds, have students move, clean the rooms, etc. This week is just a crazy one because the other intern who was here, Kate, left Monday. And two of the full-time staff are in and out this week, taking people to the airport, picking people up from the airport, and leading the excursion in Paris. So there's more work for those of us who are still here at the Domaine. It's not bad, just a busy week.

So yes, our friend Kate left Monday morning. We were sad to see her go. In just the three weeks that we got to spend with her, we became good friends. But we are hoping to get to see her sometime during the year. (We're trying to convince her to come visit us in Knoxville.)

The first group of students, group A, left this morning. We were also sad to see them leave, but we know they are probably having a wonderful time in Paris right now and are probably excited to get home and see their friends and family. Amber and I are excited about the possibility of getting to see some of the students when we get home in August. Some of them live in and/or around Knoxville, so we look forward to keeping in touch with them.

The pictures at the top of our blog are some that Amber uploaded last week. I think most of them were taken at the D-Day celebration that I wrote about last week. This past weekend we were able to go to a Venetian festival, which was neat. We missed the big part of the festival, but we still got to see the town decorated a little bit.

Thank you for your responses and comments on our last blog! Your encouragement and support are help keep us going!

Prayer requests this week: Please pray for Kate and for group A as they are all traveling this week. Pray that they will continue to keep their hearts open to the work that God was doing in their hearts while they were here.

Please pray for our team as this week is a bit crazy and busy. Pray that everyone is able to receive very restful sleep each night, and that God would just give each of us the energy and the joy needed each day for our service.

Pray especially for Amber as in the midst of all this busyness, she managed to twist (or something like that) her finger. I think it's still hurting a lot. Pray that it would heal quickly!

Pray that the new group of students would adjust to the time change and to the change in culture and language. They had their first class this morning, and I think it went well. Please continue to pray for their class and for their anxiety of being in class at a French University. (They've been pretty anxious/nervous about it the past couple of days.)

Please pray for a couple of our friends who we are not able to be with right now, but whom we are grieving with and aching to be with them. Their hearts are hurting, but I know that they are drawing close to our Father who knows and loves them better than we ever could.

We miss and love you all so much!

Katie

P.S. At some point, we'll explain the titles of each of our blogs. :-) Some of them have funny stories behind them, such as today's... Others don't. Haha, but at some point, we'll explain!