Quick mission report
Thanks to all who have been praying for the special time of outreach with the folks from Mission Vacances. One of the peculiar frustrations of a week like this is that at a time when we most want to share what's happening there's least time to do that ! Anyway :
We spent the mornings doing outreach on campus : door-to-door tracts and invites by the tram stops and cafés. From this have come a nice handful of contacts to follow up - they've passed on their email address.
The afternoon found us in the town centre with the Calvin expo and in the square round the cathedral inviting folks in. Between 40 and 50 people came to the expo and many of them had useful conversations, too, and/or took leaflets, Bibles, etc. The MV folks say this was a very good number and I confess that I was surprised how popular an expo on Calvin proved to be.
The evening events were more mixed. The Calvin conférence was well attended and of a very good quality, though it was not as evangelistically pointed as the other evenings. The Soirée Film brought in some outsiders and was a useful time. The films we showed were from Moody Science and now somewhat dated. The Soirée Anglaise at the church was the poorest attended - perhaps partly because we didn't give out any invitations (!) but also possibly because it was held at the church, not at FAC. We need to reflect on this one. Some folks who I thought would come didn't. If I'd chased them up would they have come ? Is that the point, though ? And so on.
So lots of folks contacted, some to follow up. Also one or two people from here expressing interest in helping on MV in France.
Oh, and we had lots of conversations with the JWs in the cathedral square and they showed me how to make one of their little trolleys for carting leaflets round. (Basically a book table is illegal, anything you plonk in the street has to be mobile, i.e. it has to have wheels on it, so they buy a shopping bag on wheels, discard the bag and build a little stand on it for "La Tour de Guet" ( ? ) and "Réveille-toi". Of course - we'd need something a lot stronger because we'd want to put Bibles in it as well as leaflets and flyers.
We spent the mornings doing outreach on campus : door-to-door tracts and invites by the tram stops and cafés. From this have come a nice handful of contacts to follow up - they've passed on their email address.
The afternoon found us in the town centre with the Calvin expo and in the square round the cathedral inviting folks in. Between 40 and 50 people came to the expo and many of them had useful conversations, too, and/or took leaflets, Bibles, etc. The MV folks say this was a very good number and I confess that I was surprised how popular an expo on Calvin proved to be.
The evening events were more mixed. The Calvin conférence was well attended and of a very good quality, though it was not as evangelistically pointed as the other evenings. The Soirée Film brought in some outsiders and was a useful time. The films we showed were from Moody Science and now somewhat dated. The Soirée Anglaise at the church was the poorest attended - perhaps partly because we didn't give out any invitations (!) but also possibly because it was held at the church, not at FAC. We need to reflect on this one. Some folks who I thought would come didn't. If I'd chased them up would they have come ? Is that the point, though ? And so on.
So lots of folks contacted, some to follow up. Also one or two people from here expressing interest in helping on MV in France.
Oh, and we had lots of conversations with the JWs in the cathedral square and they showed me how to make one of their little trolleys for carting leaflets round. (Basically a book table is illegal, anything you plonk in the street has to be mobile, i.e. it has to have wheels on it, so they buy a shopping bag on wheels, discard the bag and build a little stand on it for "La Tour de Guet" ( ? ) and "Réveille-toi". Of course - we'd need something a lot stronger because we'd want to put Bibles in it as well as leaflets and flyers.
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