

As usual, we met after breakfast to do our devotions and debrief yesterday's activities. At the Pantheon yesterday, when we took pictures with the police, Anne Ting was able to share with a young couple from China, as shown in the photograph sent a few hours earlier. The bottom photo showed Debbie and Mei sharing with the father from Iran (Anne Chan standing watch in the foreground). When we were prayer walking in small groups after not attracting much attention under the Metro station and my small team had the thrill of seeing this old lady healed of her knee problem, Glenn, Shirley and Rebecca visited a small Chinese restaurant. The woman proprietor was quite unfriendly, but her husband soon joined the conversation and he was very gregarious. He said he is a third generation Christian but did not see much difference between Christians and non-Christians although his wife does attend a Chinese church locally but did not want us to pray for her. We might be wrong but we concluded that perhaps the Chinese churches in Paris are not teaching their congregants to be evangelical and disciples. Anne Chan mounted her courage and approached an European girl, wondering how she could communicate. To her surprise, this European girl responded by speaking Mandarin to her; God used this to show Anne to step out in faith. Ting-Han, good wife Alice, and Debbie talked to a different Chinese restaurant owner for quite a time. While he was not ready, he was open to learn more. Afterwards, they met a last pushing her maybe 8 year old daughter in a wheelchair, looking unhappy. Ting-Han was able to get this girl to play with his guitar which made her happy and that made the mother happy too, but they left soon after. Sometimes our invitations are gladly accepted but most of the time they are rejected. But I am encouraged by our team members' willingness to step out in faith.
After dinner at a pretty nice restaurant where we (most of us) tried escargot - snails, we walked back to our guest house. Anne Ting fell a little behind the group and soon heard footsteps behind her. She turned around and to her relief, find out it was not a stalker but two ladies behind her, a mother and daughter. They soon got into a conversation and Anne found out they were from a small island near Madagascar in east Africa. The daughter will be attending university in Paris and the mother was here for a few weeks to look for an apartment for her daughter. It turns out they were temporarily staying at the same guest house we are in and several people had already been praying for them to find housing, and they had just found it, an answer to prayer! It is in these many small ways we see God's fingerprints all over this place.
We then left in 4 Ubers to MEP, Mission Etrangeres de Paris. We were met there by Tim Kim and Tim Lin of FECG. This is a Catholic museum showing the history of early missionary efforts into China, Vietnam, Korea, etc. We saw many artifacts showing how many of these missionaries were martyred and because of their sacrifice, the church grew in Korea. The boxer rebellion in China also resulted in many martyrs. We also saw a reproduction of an ancient plaque found in Sian (I think) dated the second year of Tang Dynasty (around 850 AD) showing how early missionaries were sent to evangelize China. After lunch at a nearby cafe, we took some pictures (shown below) and returned for our afternoon nap. This evening is the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games which we will watch on TV, since everything is blocked off and we have no tickets to get into the blocked areas. Glenn, Serena, Hannah, DC and Alice and Meiring and I plan to depart at 5:30 am to catch the 8:40 flight to LA. The Mandarin group of David and Anne, Ting-Han and Alice, Shirley and Rebecca are leaving Sunday afternoon. The remaining four ladies, Shi-Min, Anne Chan, Monica and Debbie are staying an extra three days to play tourist in Paris on their own expense. Thank God for leading us in ways we did not imagine and I am hopeful we're can bring the fervor of Simple evangelism back to our respective churches in LA.
The second photo below was taken in the garden of MEP. The fancy house in the back left is where the prime minister lives, so you can see MEP is located in a prime area of Paris, an example of God's abundance.
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