Thursday 18 October 2012

Greetings From France!

Since Saturday 6th October we have been in France! We are staying at the OM France offices in Pontault-Combault, near Paris, and we have been having a great time! We had the pleasure of being joined by a few other team mates for some days, which we really enjoyed. Here are some photos which capture a few moments from our first while.

Meet Tabea and Naemi, two wonderful German girls who joined us for the first few days here. They were a joy to work with and helped so much!
This is Elke, another German lady who was here with Tabea and Naemi and then with her husband. She also worked hard and served alongside is in whatever there was for us to do here. Getting to know her was a great blessing for all of us.




Here are Sarah and Chorong working hard  - cleaning the walls in the church in Saint Denis! We were so glad that we could do this for the church and fro the ladies coming to the classes, because we were able to make a real, visible difference, which was satisfying!
Elya takes good photos.

One of our days was mainly spent in prayer for some towns nearby. Here we prayed for a church that is being planted in the town, that they would get a building and that God would provide all that they need. We also prayed in Romainville for that town as were giving out information the next day about events that the church is running to celebrate their 30th anniversary.
Here we are in the home of a wonderful couple, Rachel and Rich Hendrikson, who gave us lunch after we helped disrtibute information about their church around Pontault-Combault. Protestant churches are viewed with a lot of suspicion by some people in France, so it was great to be able to inform people about what the church does and who they are.
Thank you for taking the time to find out about all that we're doing. Please pray for the OM France team, you can find out about all that they do here: http://www.fr.om.org/eng/.

Pray for outreach that we are helping with in Val d'Europe among the English speakers living there next week, that God would lead us and use us in all that we do there. 

God bless you!

Monday 1 October 2012

We're in the Alps. The Alps!

We've traveled around 30 hours altogether to get here, with an amazing day in Budapest in between, and we're finally in Forterocca in Italy! It's a beautiful place, we're delighted to see the other transit team and John (from OM Lifehope) again, and hopefully it will be a useful time of review and rest!

Go bless you!