France Day 6: May 22nd

Today we spent nearly all of the day in the center. We began by eating croissants for breakfast. It was a Sunday so we cleaned up and welcomed the members of the church into church. The service consisted of prayer and singing. We sang in French and Arabic, with some occasional English. During the service the church members would share what the Lord was doing in their lives, what the Lord was teaching them, and asking the others to pray for them. The group would then take time to pray for the individual members of the group. It was a sharp contrast to anything I have seen in America. This was one of the most authentic pictures of the Body of Christ I have ever seen. The church showed a very serious desire to be prayer warriors for one another. The man who was scheduled to preach the message had to leave at noon (we started at 11) so he was unable to preach. After church we had lunch at a Chinese restaurant (on a usual Sunday the whole church stayed and ate together at the center, but not on this week). After lunch we returned to the center and began reading a story of a 3rd century North-African martyr. In the middle of the story a Tunisian couple from the church came back to the center to talk to us. They shared their testimonies and answered our questions. After this we finished the story and had a long discussion with the pastor that ended in singing worship songs. We then had dinner. After we cleaned up dinner we watched a movie about an Arabic man who found Christ. It was a very eye opening and worship-filled day that left me with a lot to think about. (There was nothing that was picture worthy or that I was allowed to take pictures of today.)