Dauner News Update, April 2009
Justin and I leave tomorrow for the Pepperdine Bible Lectures and hope to see some of you there, or later during our visit to Topeka, Kansas. In the meantime, I will dash off this quick update.
The enclosed pictures give you a taste of our spring Chorale Harmonie concert tour. This year we sang 13 times in 8 days covering 3 countries (France, Germany, Switzlerland). Our venues included our own churches, Protestant and Catholic churches, rest homes, an ice cream parlor and a French high school in Lyon, France.
The high school audience was the most unique of the whole tour: about 300 juniors and seniors whose religious knowledge and culture was probably close to zero. The teachers told us that they had never seen these students listen so intently in the assembly and that many of them were visibly moved by our message. One girl came up and asked us, “Are you, like, believing believers?”
Each selection was introduced by a brief message from one of the choristers, beginning with songs about Old Testament characters (Abraham, Moses, David), on to the death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus and ending with songs of praise and calls to come to Christ. The general theme was Give Me Jesus.
Another trip was made the week before to Bonnefoi Center in order to begin repairs caused by our extremely severe winter, the worst since the 1940’s. There was still about 3 or 4 feet of snow on the ground.
Please keep our three big projects for the summer in your prayers:
1. A work week at Bonnefoi Center involving over 50 volonteers from America and France.
2. Christians on Mission Summer Session.
3. Harmony Bible Camp.
We realize more and more than only one thing keeps us going: love for the Christ and for the Father who sent him to save our race. As Prisca’s French version of Give Me Jesus says: You can take away all the rest, but not Jesus.
May God make that a reality in our lives.
Max and Prisca