The Weekly Update – May 4, 2026
While traveling through Burgundy last week, we stopped in the historic town of Châtillon-sur-Seine.
We settled into a brasserie for a coffee.
There was only one other customer inside: an elderly woman, her eyes fixed on the television and her newspaper, which lay on her table.
All it took was a smile for her to get up and come over to greet us.
This woman, who is clearly poor, is so happy to be able to talk to someone.
“I come here every day,” she says, “and I read my newspaper. ”
“And do you know, ma’am, what we read every day?”
That was the opening to talk to her about the Bible and our faith.
“I go to church every day and pray to Mary,” she tells us.
We then give her a small Gospel of Luke and invite her to turn to Jesus.
Holding the Word of God firmly in her hand, this elderly woman, moved, confesses : “You know, no one has ever spoken to me the way you have.”
A few minutes later, standing in the middle of the brasserie, she repeated a prayer and gave her heart to the Lord.
“Could you please write down this prayer for me, so that I don’t forget it? ”
Jesus said, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the House of Israel.”
We believe that the “House” Jesus speaks of refers, for us today in France, to the Church (in the broadest sense).
These sheep are within the House (whether that House be Catholic or Protestant), and yet they are lost.
It is for that lost soul in Châtillon-sur-Seine that Christ was sent.
Timothée & Yukki