Paris en feu

On Saturday 17th February the Church played host to an event with ‘France en Feu.’ We had a six-hour worship marathon from 16h-22h! There were four groups who led us in worship, each with a different style which I found very refreshing. To start it all off we had the Gospel Choir of Paris, this time of worship was so jubilant! You couldn’t help but praise the Lord! The other groups were a mix of guitars, keyboards, and singers and were also very gifted in worship ministry, mixing the old with the new, French songs, English songs, American spirituals etc. One group introduced electronic sounds using a computer which brought a new and effective dimension to worship. I think this was quite a new technique for some people. Each group brought its own flavour of worship, allowing times for jubilation, meditation, prayer, reflection and for just simply singing your heart out for the Lord. Throughout the six hours there were some people who stayed for almost the whole time, some who stayed for an hour or two or just half an hour. I think the average number of people in the church was between 20 and 30. There were also many tourists who had popped in to have a look at the church and then stayed for a bit to see what was going on. I hope that they were touched by the presence of the Holy Spirit in this place and that perhaps they were given something to think about having seen people actively and charismatically praising God. This was a wonderful night and it was so great to spend hours freely singing the praises of and worshiping our Lord.