Distribution

On Tuesday we began distributing the gifts that we had prepared on Monday. The gifts are New Testaments that have bookmarks at several locations including the Christmas Story at the beginning of Luke. The other gifts that we are distributing are copies of the Jesus DVD. The DVDs have 13 language choices on them, including French, Arabic, Berber and other languages from this part of the world.

We were able to find a few mailboxes to put these gifts in before lunch, but after a "quick" lunch at a sandwich shoppe, we decided to move to a different area to hand out the rest of our gifts. We say "quick" lunch, because even a quick lunch in France takes a while. The French people believe that food should be enjoyed and that people should sit down and relate and talk during a lunch meal, just like any other meal. Our friends who live here have kids who are students in school and they get between 90 minutes and 2 hours off from school. So, after we moved to a new location, we distributed several hundred gifts. We would have distributed more, but several of the apartment buildings that we attempted were locked up and we were not able to access their mailboxes.

Thursday morning we spent only a couple of hours and we were able to find many families to give our gifts to. We found many large apartment buildings that were open and had families that we pray will be appreciate the gifts that we had. So, we have now distributed all the gifts that we have prepared, so we will spend this afternoon preparing more gifts.

Thanks for your prayers. Please continue to pray that those who received our gifts will view and read them and come to know our God.