Mime played a big part in this year’s Easter outreaches, amongst the sketchboard messages, surveys, literature distribution and special evening events. Not only did we present mimes which communicated the gospel, but we also were able to entertain the children we saw during the open-airs, leaving their parents free to discuss spiritual issues. The mimes’ playful attitudes and smiles softened some of the passers-by enough to take tracts and stop to talk with our team-members.
| J’aime Paris I at Elancourt |
| 4 open-airs |
| 3 surveys sessions |
| Philippe Decourroux concert (40 visitors) and evangelistic Sunday Service (50 visitors) |
| 600 Philippe Decourroux CDs and 4500 concert invitations |
| 72 Three Spiritual Laws tracts |
| 3 Jesus DVDs/videos |
| 40 Gospels of John |
| 1 Bible |
Pictured here are three girls doing a mime where the balls represent God and man. A third ball is slipped in between them to represent sin. But with the cross (and a special hook underneath) a team-member can “remove” the sin from the relationship, allowing God and man to come together again. Notice the look on Katie’s face (the girl on the right, representing ‘man’) - awe at the sacrifice of a sinless God/man who took our sin upon Himself, freely, so that we could be reconciled to God. How easy for Christians to take this gift for granted; how easy for non-Christians to be blinded to its significance. But evangelism is to chip away at that blindness and it serves as a reminder to Christians, while obeying Jesus’ command, of the great price with which we’ve been bought.
| J’aime Paris II at Vigneux-sur-Seine |
| 4 open-airs |
| letter-box distribution over 3 towns |
| 2 Conference evenings with Pastor Koumarianos |
| Evangelistic Sunday Service with Pastor Kaulanjan |
| ~22 000 “Living without knowing…” tracts |
| ~15 000 invitations to church events |
| 188 Three Spiritual Laws tracts |
| 15 Jesus DVDs/videos |
| 500 Gospels of John |
We’ll continue the evangelism with two summer outreaches. For Paris at Heart, we’ll be teaming up with YWAM France to have large open-air presentations, six hours each evening in two huge Paris plazas: La Place de la Nation, Wed. to Sat., 9 - 12 July and La Place de la Bataille de Stalingrad, Tue. to Sat. 15-19 July. Meanwhile, four short-term OMers will travel to Avignon with several experienced street evangelists. Their team will be one of hundreds of performance acts during the annual festival (12-19 July). Please pray that God will be honored by our outreach messages and conversations with people this summer, and that He would draw men and women into His kingdom.
article written by Jennifer Price, June 2008