Friday, June 22, 2007

French adventures continued

I've been so incredibly busy this last week that I've hardly had time for anything! But I think that I'm used to the French keyboard now so maybe I can write a little more. Where I'm staying right now out the window I can see the ocean and hills of sandstone covered in olive trees and grape vines. The houses are yellow stucco with bright blue shutters. I'm staying with Elyse Maclean and in the morning we walk down windy streets to the church and meet up with the rest of our team. We then have a couple of hours of prayer, studying the bible, and worshipping together. It's awesome! For lunch we eat baguettes and cheese and wine and other french things, and then in the afternoon we do all sorts of evangelistic or other things. These involve walking around and talking to people about Jesus, playing games with kids at the park, and the other day we (together with the church here) gave a concert for the neighborhood ( a couple hundred people came!) and we shared testimonies and sang. Miguel Alzugaray is a real sensation here thanks to his beatboxing abilities. Everywhere he goes he is surrounded by a little fan club!
Yesterday we set up microphones at a really busy area of town and preached the gospel and sang. I was absolutely amazed at the response of people. They were so interested and talked to all of us and we gave away dozens of bibles and other things. Marseille has actually only 1% Christians and they seem so hungry for God. When I was speaking, however, one man did yell at me to go to hell. I just laughed and told him how to get to heaven instead!
I've met some really nice muslim ladies and one invited me to her house and fed Elyse and I cups of whipping cream (poor Elyse is lactose intolerant so she actually did suffer for the gospel!)
I love you all!

4 comments:

Miriam said...

Wow, Heather, that place you're staying at sounds amazing. That's so cool that people are hungry for God - how exciting!

Alpha Davies said...

hi babe, miss you, love you, glad to hear you're enjoying yourself! see you on the 4th
Alf

Austin Davies said...

Hi Heath... sounds like you're having a blast. That's nice that you are staying with Elyse. Have you had any marriage proposals yet? Dad says: "I want at least 20 cows."
Love you Heather,
Oz

Unknown said...

Heather, it would be interesting to know what the French language equivalent of "Hullaballoo" is. Perhaps you could investigate?
Praying for you,
Ian