Last night’s prayer meeting took an interesting turn. It is summer, and the meetings is usually little attended. So, I opened the building and waited for a while. At 8.10, I was still on my own, but was determined to stay anyway and pray. After a few minutes, a sister arrived.
We got started, sang and read a passage in 2 Kings. After that, we prayed for a while, thanking God for his goodness. About halfway we stopped to share some prayer matters. At that point, three Gypsy ladies turned up to join us. One of them has been coming to us for the last 3-4 weeks. It was great to see them.
We had a chat and prayed together. At the end of the meeting, we talked a bit more about baptism and some of the differences between our churches. They call us “les sedentaires” (roughly: the sedentaries, or settled). It is not meant to be negative. It is just a way to distinguish between people who live in houses as opposed to the travelling community (who often live in houses part of the year, but still see themselves as Gypsies). Their church meet in another part of town.
I was thrilled to get to know them. I had recently prayed that there would be some contacts with some of the Gypsy christians in Guingamp.