jelibeenz à Montréal 2006

Prayer requests!

Hey.
Super fast post to ask for your prayers. We're doing a The Da Vinci Code outreach this afternoon, basically doing surveys and asking people what they think about the movie and the book. Our results will be sent back to headquarters in Langley where they will be tabulated for another press release. There was an article in The Globe and Mail yesterday in which they interviewed one of our Montreal staff, John Bellingham. I was impressed...although the article didn't really say anything worth reading about, it didn't misinterpret Crusade's stance of using the movie to incite spiritual discussion rather than boycotting either. I can't say that much for the comments left on the Globe website though. The first time I read the article, there were 16 comments, when I went back there were 32, and seconds later when I refreshed the page there were 64. Doubling...exponentially...most of them quite negative.
Anyways, I will ask that you pray for our group as we head out to four movie theatres (three English, one French) to collect people's opinion...that we will have wisdom and discernment when we answer any questions. I also anicipate that my roommates and I will be at the French theatre since we seem to be among the most adept in the language...and so please pray as well that we won't end up saying something when we meant to be saying something else on account of language differences. One last thing, please pray for good weather! It's been wet and rainy this past week, some say that it's the fact that so many of us are from BC and we brought the rain with us...but I beg to differ. The rain is actually harder than Vancouver rain, so...yeah. But anyways, I think we will be standing outside the theatres, so good weather would be good!
I'll finish by directing you to www.discussdavinci.com, Crusade's website that gives background resources on the historical data etc. that the book (and movie) are based on. I watched the movie yesterday afternoon, and I know that without this background information, one can get pretty confused by what they'll see.

posted by jelibeenz @ 12:12 p.m.