{FECA Vision Choir} Update Tuesday July 23

This morning, we had our first full team devotion and meeting together since the twelve who went to the worship outside of Paris did not return until after 11 pm. It was quite an adventure, first because the metro tickets only took them so far out of town and technically, they could not get off the station but the guard realized we were foolish tourists so in his kindness, let us off. The location held on the entrance of a church a few steps above the field in a mainly minority neighborhood was intimidating, but we had a chance to meet many immigrants, some Muslims, who were in fact quite open to the gospel. We were able to share quite freely and realized God had brought them to France to give them an opportunity to hear the Good News. The return was even more exciting. We had to buy paper tickets, but the ticket machine allowing us into the station was faulty. A local lady (not the manned station personnel since they had all left work by that hour of the evening) spent over half an hour helping to no avail. She even recruited another man to help us. We were humbled by these people willing to help us strangers and we were blessed by their love. But we were finally able to get home, spending 5-1/2 hours for about an hour of worship and messages, but learned humility and saw our sovereign Lord's hand in all we encountered.

After our devotion, we practiced our songs and then decided to go sing on the streets of Paris. We first sang on the sidewalk in front of our guest house. Several passerby listened a bit, but one person on an upstairs balcony of the guest house applauded our song. We then proceeded to the main street next to a Metro station and sang several songs under the metro tracks overhead. We had a chance to talk to a few, including a Muslim woman who spent at least 15 minutes talking to us and asking how can one God be three? Nevertheless, she gave several of us a big hug when she left. We sang both English songs and Mandarin songs, and one young man thanked us and said he is a follower of Jesus and attends a Dominican (Catholic) church down the street. After spending over half an hour singing with Ting Han playing the guitar and Glenn his saxophone, we walked to a Vietnamese fast food take out located a few minutes from our guest house. This establishment is run by a couple from Wun Tsou who have been here about twenty years. After eating, with no customers coming in, we asked permission to sing to them to bless them. They were very happy to listen to us. We subsequently learned that the wife's mother (parents both still in China) is Buddhist but she professes no faith and both she and her husband were very open. Shirley closed in prayer for them before we left. One other interesting event when we were singing was a homeless lady with two young girls (maybe aged four and two-ish) stopped on the sidewalk and asked for food for her two children. Shi-Min generously offered to buy them lunch and we were able to share that God knows of their plight and loves them. We then returned to the guest house, some to nap and some went with DC and Alice to view the Eiffel Tower from the Champ Elisee.

Tonight we plan to walk down to the Chinese restaurant area where Marshall and Meiring were Stanley Cheng's guest last night see if we can do some ministry there. So walked to the Place d'Italie and warmed up by singing a few songs in the roundabout (see photograph). We then walked a few hundred meters down Av. De Choisy and started singing Amazing Grace and several other songs and hymns in front of a restaurant called Tang's Gourmet. As we sang, most passerbys ignored us but a fre stayed and listened. When we sang Chinese songs, we had the chance to talk to several people. In particular, Meiring, Debbie and Marshall noticed a white middle aged man sitting nearby listening attentively so we had a chance to greet him. It spoke some English and told us his name is Gil, he came to Paris from Africa (probably South Africa) but he is sometimes depressed (and we could smell alcohol on his breath but he was fully sober). He said he so much enjoyed our singing bringing leave to him. We had a chance to pray a blessing for him and used the prayer to share how Jesus loves him and died for him. We did not notice that he had a brace on his right hand until he was ready to leave so we failed to pray for healing for him. May God bring someone else to finish His work in saving Gil. After singing for about half an hour (now past 8 pm), we walked across the street to eat dinner at Comme au Vietnam, featuring Shanghai and Szechuan food. Our large group of 15 (DC and Alice had gone to visit Tim and Kloe Kim) attracted such a large crowd of diners that they had to wait to be seated. Shirley and Rebecca than had a chance to talk many minutes to a family of 4 (husband, wife and two preteen boys) who had come from Shanghai for the Olympics and had specifically chosen to eat at this highly rated restaurant from their Chinese Yelp review.

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