La semaine ADN (Annonce De la bonne Nouvelle)

What did we actually do during our week of outreach?

SA. 27/6
First team meeting (PM)
Settling into church lodgings, evening off (late PM)

SU. 28/6
Breakfast at church lodgings (AM)
Bible study & training for outreach at GBU office headquarters
[at rue Serpente nr. St-Michel metro]
[including overview of different religions & worldviews]
Lunch out near the Ile de la Cité
More training & dinner (PM)

MO. 29/6 => FR. 3/7
Breakfast (AM)

Opening in prayer; singing (in French) of older SIS choruses
- wow, that took me back to the early '90s!!

Bible study & prayer

Allocation of teams to be running Bible-stands outside Paris university campuses

More prayer (yay!!) in allocated teams

Collect lunch & leave for universities in teams


Teams arrive outside university entrance gates AND>

> Set up Bible-stands with:
Bibles in French, Arabic & English; invitation slips for nightly evangelistic events; sign-up forms for any interested students wanting to join the GBU Bible-study groups closest to their campuses; tracts explaining Christ & Christianity; survey on who contacted students thought Jesus was (with range of responses to be selected according to student beliefs)

>> Approach those near or passing by, attempting to
a) hand them invitations to our events
b) find out what they knew/thought of Jesus, using survey
c) share the good news of Jesus with them

>>> Where permitted, enter into university campus grounds & repeat previous step (>>)
This step was how I met & could talk to the native-French atheist (see relevant previous post).


Finish Bible-stands, pack up everything & return to GBU office (PM)

Free time
(ending by returning to church lodgings)
Many of the team slept (esp. Jonty*, who always seemed so tired that his sleepiness became a running gag for the team, particularly when Avi* had anything to say about it!!). Others did personal devotions/QTs, or prepared for evening activities. Matthew* went & did the mad Polish tourist thing, pursuing the Eiffel Tower & other sites touristiques. As for me, I have no idea where my time went each afternoon!! (Only I knew I wouldn't sleep.)


Preparation for dinner => Recap of Bible-stand happenings
(at church lodgings)

> All team members together sharing & praying about anyone they'd met who they were able to engage in conversation, or who had picked up tracts, Bibles, etc.

Dinner, then clean-up (faire la vaisselle)

Return to GBU office to set up & be ready for evening events.

Run evening events; tidy up afterwards; go back to church lodgings & sleep (late PM).

SA. 4/7
Breakfast (AM)
Final Bible-study together, evaluation, wrap-up.
Clean-up & farewells.
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Next post, I'm hoping to talk a little more about the Bible-stands I was involved in throughout the week.

By then, I may be in HK with my father - I fly out around 2115 hours tomorrow (that's Sydney time).

L/T.