We took the boat to the Island of Paros and stayed at a campsite near the town of Parikia for 10 days. The aim of the trip was to reach tourists on the Island with the good news of Jesus. Therefore, in everything we did, we were trying to be outward looking and sociable. We made quite a few contacts on the beach playing volleyball or beach cricket, others we got to know over dinner and others whilst just chatting at the campsite. The key parts to the day were our group Bible study in the morning working our way through Mark’s gospel, afternoons on the beach playing games and getting to know people and an evangelistic bible study in a beach café at 6.30.
Our
prayer before we left was that the Lord might give us a few
individuals whom we could get to know and share the gospel with and
it was great to see him answer that prayer! We met lots of people
during our time but two that we want to particularly remember and
pray for are a couple of Danish guys called Jonathan and Morten. We
got to know them quite well and during our second look at Mark’s
gospel together they both said that they understood it in their head
but not in the heart – do pray for them!
As
the trip went on we realized it wasn’t all peaches and cream
however as the general wear and tear of an evangelistic beach holiday
began to set in. A couple of afternoons of beach questionair-ing
provoked some fairly hostile responses. Sun burnt shoulders, injured
feet, mosquito bites, water stuck in ears and 35 degree heat were
also at times a bit of a pain! On the whole it was a privilege to
serve the Lord in this way and He provided a good number of
opportunities for us to tell people the best and most important news
they could ever hear! Could you be there on the mission trip
to Paros 2013?
