First Week of Outreach!

After a good sleep our first night here, I finally felt like a real human being again! We had a pretty chill day our first full day of outreach--cooking, grocery shopping, and a talk with some of the people involved with ministry at the base about France as a mission field. It's going to be really challenging--pray for us! France is known as the most pagan nation in Europe and has a reputation for burning out missionaries faster than almost anywhere else in the world. The people have pretty much turned their back on God and everything that he stands for, so we have our work cut out for us! We're going to be working with a youth group in the area and also doing a lot of practical work around the base.

Yesterday, we had some prayer and intercession, then went on a tour of our village which is pretty amazing. We did some practical work in the afternoon and had more prayer and Bible reading in the evening. We also had a chance to start planning for the youth group meeting that we will be leading on Saturday. The worship team is attempting to learn One Way Jesus (the chorus), Majesty, and Our God is an Awesome God in French. Pray for us--we're gonna need it.... ;-}

We led a Youth Group meeting on Saturday which was really fun, then we led worship for a church in a nearby village on Sunday. Next week, we are going to a nearby town to do some performing arts in the town square, which we are all really excited about.

We have heard some awesome news from our other team in Tahiti and the base back in Sydney. In Tahiti, the team had a healing meeting their first week, and a lady came and got healed of a whole bunch of stuff and dedicated her life back to the Lord, which was amazing!!! They also said that two of the team members had significant healing with ear problems they've had. At the base, they had their second Youth Street meeting this last weekend. They told us that four kids gave their lives to the Lord!!!! AMAZING! I'm so excited for all that God is doing, and I hope to see some of the cool stuff he wants to do in France first hand in the next couple weeks!

I have been trying to upload all my pictures for the last week, but I keep taking so many that it's hard to keep up! Like I said earlier, the base is absolutely beautiful! A little country village about an hour and a half outside of Paris. I am expecting the garden in the backyard to make for some amazing quiet times in the next three weeks!

Here are the pictures from our last week at the base--our final dinner together before outreach, and the launch of Youth Street:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2046666&id=44901593&l=6415ada3fa

Here are the endless albums from the first week of France. You may need a week's worth of food and water with several breaks in order to get through all these pictures--my camera is going to get a work out here!!!

France 1:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2046667&id=44901593&l=8da40bf59e

France 2:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2046671&id=44901593&l=53c84a7d0e

France 3:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2046735&id=44901593&l=9ffd4072e7

France 4:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2046856&id=44901593&l=605c9c3a15

France 5:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2046865&id=44901593&l=5a54291f89

France 6:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2046866&id=44901593&l=613885e265


More to come very soon!
A plus tard! (Actually pronounced "aye plu tar" and means "see you later"!)