Day 10 - May 30th - Friday

After breakfast, Guy (an awesome French Canadian missionary we met at the baptism) gave us a PowerPoint presentation on how the mythology of other cultures lends proof to the stories of the Bible. Pretty cool stuff. After that, we walked to a plaza by a fountain and set up our sound system to do street ministry. That in itself was a huge God thing... we weren't supposed to be able to have electricity for our sound system to run off of out there, but right before we were about to go out the door, a city official called to invite Sam to a music festival thing that Douai has going on later in the month. Sam mentioned that he had a musical group with him right now and that they were planning on singing in the plaza, and she offered (as the owner of a nearby shop) to provide electricity so we could run our music tracks! Amazing. Another awesome surprise was waiting for us when we reached the plaza... the team from BLF had come to watch us perform and hang out with us! :D We performed to full-length sets in the plaza, with Sam wandering about talking with the audience and passing out invitations to our performance at his coffeehouse tonight. We took a break after our second set and broke up into pairs to do prayer walks in the area, then performed one more set before packing up.

Once we left the plaza, we headed back to L'Equitable and hung out for a couple of hours while we waited for our nighttime performance. When the time came, we had a completely full house and a few people watching from outside! What an incredible ministry opportunity! We performed a full set for the audience, and later we heard really good feedback from Sam. He said that several people were touched by the fact that we learned to sing in French, even though we clearly couldn't speak French (we sort of butchered our introductions, haha... all we had to remember was "Je m'appelle *name here*, Je viens d' *where we were from*", but it was definitely a struggle for most of us. We got a lot of good laughs out of our intro section.)
After our performance, we hung out and sung and played around with Sarah, Florence, Nathan, and Annie until they had to leave. So sad saying goodbye to them again, but it was so much fun to have them with us all day! Then we headed home ourselves and got to bed.