A group of two teams came to Lille recently to help in two different projects: church building renovation and local evangelism among young adults.  Both have stirred a desire to ask other teams to consider coming.

With the church building renovation, we hope the building will be modernized and more accessible when we have various events.A clean, well-kept building will go a long way to showing that our community wants to move forward in building relations with the community.  In fact, a neighborhood afternoon gathering brought 13 neighbors together in front of the building, and we were able to tell of our future plans.

The evangelism project among university-age youth was an encouragement for our faithful few Christian students to be more at ease in evangelistic contact.  It was also an encouragement for us to have 400 students start in spiritual discussions through surveys and 150 came into student ministry headquarters, where we gave away Bibles and invited them to start a future class in Bible discovery.

My hope is that our young people will disciple some of those who are searching and will be able to start study groups and maybe churches in any number of the churchless towns in metropolitan Lille.

-Gary DeGraaf, Lille