France, Je T'aime!

The time has come to leave another country, and as always we're sad to be leaving but very excited to be going to the next place! Here are a few shots of our last few weeks in France to give you an idea of what we've been up to...

Our two weeks at the OM France base, near Paris, was spent 
distributing for five different churches. It was a very good use of 
our youthful fitness! Invitations for meetings, tracts and information
 about churches were all delivered in large numbers, and now none of
 us can go past a letter box without wanting to drop something into it!

These lovely people along with the team are some of the people we worked with this week - in Carpentras in the south of France. We have loved getting to know all of the wonderful people from this church! We did outreach in both Carpentras and a neighbouring town where they are planting a church, called L'Ilse-sur-la-Sorgue. This picture was taken after the second of two meetings, which we gave out invitations to, on the topic of, "God doesn't exist?!"

One of the ways in which we made contacts with people this week 
was by going to the park in L'Ilse -sur-la-Sorgue and doing free 
face-painting for kids and playing football with teenagers. This gave the 
French speakers really good opportunities to talk to the parents of the 
children and the boys they were playing football with. Chorong was able 
to pass on her face painting skills to people in the church, like Camille in 
the picture, so the church will be able to keep on using this to reach out!

We spent a couple of afternoons in the main square of Carpentras also, doing similar things to get talking to people. Chris and Marvin both used their musical giftings to make passers-by take a second look, and possibly stop and chat. And they aren't collecting money in that guitar, it was filled with free literature!

Here you can see Sarah, Mike and Hannah from the team along 
with Clement from the Carpentras church doing a mine in front of a 
crowd of people who were passing by. This one used the picture of 
getting stuck to a chair of wet paint to illustrate how we can get stuck in 
sin and only God can help get us out of bad situations.

Marvin spoke at the church's youth group and used hats and other props to give us all a more realistic view of world missions! He challenged the young people to be open to where God may be calling them, and to get involved in missions in whatever way they can.

We take off at 4 am on Monday morning for Villanueva de la Vera in Spain, so please pray that the journey goes well, and that Rex (the van) doesn't give us any trouble! Pray also for the contacts the church has made this week, that they will be fruitful! Ask the Lord that the people who heard the gospel in the meetings this week will respond to it, and pray that the church plant in L'Isle-sur-la-Sourge will get the rooms that they have been planning to buy.

God bless you!

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!

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!

On The Road Again!

It's 5 o'clock in the morning, and Transit Team 4 are setting out on another epic drive. As Chorong said in our first video, "Transit is about adventure!", and we're sure that another adventure awaits us as we travel from Moldova to the OM Hungary base near Budapest! The trip will take between 18 and 22 hours, but we're aiming to beat all expectations! Pray that it goes well and that we all get enough rest to make use of the training time in Italy.

God's richest blessings to you!

Our trip so far....

Greetings from Moldova! We having a great time here and finishing soon. The new video about Moldova is coming soon. Enjoy meanwhile a little summary about the last two months of Transit!

Moldova Baby!

On Sunday 3rd September we arrived at the OM Moldova base in Chișenău and were welcomed by some of the team there. We stayed in Chișenău until Tuesday. On Monday we were briefed on Moldovan culture, Moldovan church culture and what we would be doing in the village of Paicu.

We are now in Paicu, a village in the southern Moldova, working with an evangelical church.  

A lot of our ministry here has been through physical work and helping the congregation with the infinite number of tasks that they have to do. Gardening, shovelling dirt and moving a car – the Transit team can do it all!

Another crucial part of what the church does here is an after school club for children. Every week day we have around 25 kids who come to have a meal, play games, have teaching from the Bible and an English class. It's been a lot of fun and the kids have been learning a lot.

We have also helped with OM's food deliveries for the elderly in the area. The ladies of the church prepare hot food each day which is taken to elderly people struggling to look after themselves. It's not physically draining, but it is emotionally very hard to see how little some people have. It's a blessing to be a part of helping them and showing God's love to them.

One of our ministries has involved going to the kindergarten and doing games, songs and a story with the children. It was a lot of fun, and best of all the kids learnt more about how much Jesus loves them!

We are having a wonderful time here at the church in Paicu, although we're all pretty tired. Pray that God will continue to supply us with he energy that we need for everything we're doing, and please pray that God will really use us to bless the church, reach out to those who need Him and glorify His name!

God moved in Romania! - Videoblog 2

Dear Followers, we made a Video to summarize our time in Romania! God worked powerful! Watch and enjoy! We already arrived in Moldova and started our Ministry today, more on that in the next view days.