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After an overnight flight and a six hour time shift, our Calvary Church delegation received warm greetings at Lyon Saint-Exupery Airport in France, a seventy minute flight southeast of Paris and a sixty minute drive to our home-base city of Grenoble. Later that afternoon we were in the heart of Historical Grenoble on a historical city tour. Sometime afterward, Missionary Roy asked how many Muslims did you see in town? I answered, Not very many. We saw a lot more last year. About 50% of those you saw today, were Muslims, he countered. Roy was teaching us to observe people as a missionary. Most of them were wearing western clothing but last visit, closer to the beginning of Ramadan, many more followed the Islamic dress code. I†¦show more content†¦This youth camp seeks to minister to French youth families throughout the summer. Many hands make light work. With our group we finished some simple work projects saving the staff a lot of time and received some training about Islam from our ministry partner. In the afternoon we climbed, by SUVs, the rest of the way up the mountains to a ski resort town, Les Deux Alps (The Two Alps) [elevation 5,400 ft]. Someone erected a cross at the other end of town which overlooks the snow capped mountains [elevation 11,800 ft] in the background. Back in Grenoble for the rest of the week we were beginning our primary ministry, prayer walking. Before doing ministry in any area we surrounded the area in prayer one or more days in advance. We prayer walked in three areas. First, in a poorer immigrant Islamic neighborhood of apartment buildings where drug dealers hang out. There is a ministry which Roy participates in which holds a kids club during the school year. At the end of the year a carnival is put on for the kids and a big barbeque for them and their parents. A couple of days after the prayer walk we formed groups of three, two Americans plus one translator, went to the doors of families whose children participate in the club and passed out invitations. One group was invited in. WhileShow MoreRelatedIsrael And Palestine Conflict Between Judaism And Islam1568 Words   |  7 PagesIsrael and Palestine The conflict between the Palestinians and the Israelis is largely a religious conflict. Even though religion, ethnicity, territory, and politics are inextricably interwoven, the conflict is largely fueled and driven on by the religious rift between Judaism and Islam. 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