To France and Back Again: April 2014

Spent this last week in St. Hippolyte du Fort (a little french village just 30 min. north of Montpellier)!

I could not have asked for a better first week of Outreach! :)

We arrived last Sunday, tired from 6 hours of driving from Biarritz but excited nonetheless!

On monday we took a trip to the Musee du Desert, Which is a museum dedicated to the Huguenots (protestant christians) who were persecuted under the reign of Louis IX. We also got the chance to hike up to a cave in the mountains where they would go to worship and have church services so that they would not be found by Louis IX's soldiers. It was an eye-opening experience, and very inspiring to learn about the faith of these people. We went down into one of the caves and did some worship and praying down there, it was an amazing time!

We also did some exploring :)

Found a green door :)

On Tuesday we went on a little hike on the bases property to do some praying over the city!

A tower on the property :)

This is a mountain that we climbed on saturday

Overlooking the village (I love panoramas!)

St. Hippolyte in the fog :)

On Wednesday we did this thing called a 'burn' where we take a couple hours of the day to just pray or worship in whatever way we want. While I was praying I received Psalm 50, I read the first part of the Psalm and immediately pictured a scene in my head, so I painted it. It was a powerful time of worship! :)

Thursday we went to Montpellier!

Did some exploring...

And this is what happens when you pull out a camera...

First one person...

Then three,

Soon it's a group picture! :)

Don't ask me why they're blurry, I'm not a photographer!

All the European flags...

A view from the top!

Can you tell I love Panoramas!?

Selfie bomb!

We stayed in Montpellier until late that day, and then we went back on Friday to give english lessons at a cafe. Many of us got a chance to share the gospel with the people there! :)