Monthly service for the Paris Region

T he monthly service for the Paris region, with the goal of creating a good service for member’s friends and guests, was held on Sunday 6 October in what we believe through service and living for others. He gave us three ways in which we can apply this: the rented hall near the French HQ. helping others (service), supporting others (listening Our music group, High 5, is in the midst of and spiritual support) and giving things to others transforming itself. One band member has moved to (sacrificing). To help us in finding ways to reach out another French city for her studies and another will to others, Jean-François told us we need to discover leave France in January. The band added several three things about anyone, their interests, their musicians and singers and is becoming better than needs and their wounds. When we manage to ever! They opened the service with three songs. discover these things about anyone, we will Jean-François Moulinet then presented his sermon understand how to give them what they need. on the theme, “A Remarkable Life”. Month by month To illustrate his message he showed us a video of a he has been covering the basic points of a life of song by a Christian singer, Josh Wilson, named ‘I faith; prayer, study, Sunday service attendance and, Refuse’. The city of Nashville, Tennessee, where Josh last Sunday, he insisted on the importance of living Wilson lives, was hit by heavy flooding in 2010

but doing nothing which is hypocritical. He then wrote a song saying that he refuses to do nothing when he knows that others are in need; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6md9teDFMU ; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B1Lv8k5pEc . An important lesson for all of us that prayer is not enough. It must be followed up with action. After the sermon we invited Mrs. Lim, WFWP director for South-East Asia, and the wife of Dr. Lek from Thailand to introduce themselves and say a few words. We also invited Kenneth and Sonia Read to come up and introduce themselves. They have recently moved from UK to Paris for Kenneth’s work and we are very happy to have them as part of our community. We took time toward the end of the service for everyone to fill in an evaluation form and this service was much appreciated with a score of 84,7/100, a higher score than the service usually gets. After the conclusion of the service everyone enjoyed a moment of fellowship with coffee, tea and cakes. leaving many people homeless. Josh Wilson found We could also present the new edition of our DP himself praying that something could be done for Black Book that we could reprint with the help of these people and realized he was praying about it Juraj Ladja, from the Czech Republic.