Day 22

It's been so long since I've written! For the few people reading this, my sincerest apologies :)

I'm in France! Just outside of Paris, in the region of Champagne (where they make Champagne if you couldn't guess that). We've been here since last Wednesday and have been helping out with a youth camp that was hosted by the YWAM base here. It has been very very interesting. Our roles were to be the servants of the base, so we have mostly been cleaning and serving and preparing meals and things like that. But because of the unexpected low attendance, we were also able to attend the different workshops and services and things. There were actually three people from the Bethel school in Redding here as well and one of them was a speaker. Its been really crazy experiencing so many differing theological beliefs and practices. However, I have learned more about unity in the church than I ever could have hoped for in a one week period. It has been amazing getting to know the whole team and of course Art has been incredible.

We've also gotten to travel around this area a little bit since we've been here. Yesterday we went to this Medieval village called Provins (I think) and the day before that we went to a winery for Champagne tasting which was also really exciting. And on Sunday, since we're with art, we all went out for pizza to this little restaurant and filled the entire place with something like 30 people (most of them were our guests).

Tomorrow we're headed back out to Paris for a few days of sightseeing before we start the Summer of Service on Monday. With the Summer of Service program we'll be staying in some university housing with a bunch of other teams and break up into different evangelism groups. I was hoping to be with the Muslim evangelism team and to my excitement I got an email two days ago from that team leader telling me I would be part of it. So I think the next two weeks will probably be the best yet! And I will definitely not let 10 more days go by before I post again!