Update from France!

Greetings from France!

We are in our second week here, and things are going well. At the beginning there were 8 of us; 7 from the States and 1 girl from Ireland. Last Saturday another girl from Ireland joined us to make 9.

Our schedule has been the same pretty much every day; in the morning we distribute Réflexions, the pamphlet that the church puts together. After lunch we go door to door in the neighborhood where we have the kids' club in order to invite kids to club and possibly have conversations with people as well. We have all had good conversations with several people, but it is difficult because they like to tell you all about what they believe and not listen to what you have to say and not give direct answers to your questions. After door-to-door, we have the kids' clubs for an hour. We are divided into two groups since there are so many of us and running two clubs at the same time. Last week my group ran a club in a mainly Muslim nieghborhood. While one boy came almost every day, they were clearly not happy to have us there.

This week's club started off much better. There were over 5 little girls who came and listened well and had a lot of fun. Today, however, they were playing outside when we came but weren't allowed to come because they had been talking about God and what they had learned and their dads weren't happy.

If any of you follow football, you will know that France is in the World Cup Finals! Last night we got to go to downtown Nantes and watch it on the big screen with thousands of people. It was very exciting to be there.

Thank you all so much for your prayers. We have been learning much about God's faithfulness to His people and how He answers prayer during our trip.

In Christ,
Laura