Normandy

The team from GSGBC that had been in Normandy the last few weeks has arrived home with glowing reports. The team spent three weeks prayer walking Normandy - the beaches and interior. General reports were that the church in France is nearly dead and in desperate need of the Holy Spirit. Parts of Normandy, in particular, remain very bitter about the war, both of the German occupation and their need of Allied liberation. Thus the people are spiritually stuck, unwilling to forgive their former oppressors and unwilling to show genuine gratitude to their former liberators. So they cling to D-Day like a scorned lover who clings to the note that says the relationship is over (did I really just write that?). Still, the GSGBC team, led by John Pressdee, says they were able to accomplish what they had set out to do: to open doors for the Spirit and to offer healing and repentance for the land. They partnered with an evangelical church in Normandy, for whom the real hard ground work will now begin, and they truly sense that the ground has been broken and the plowing begun.

At the moment, the web site is down, but I suppose more detail on their trip will soon be posted on prayerexpeditions.org.