By Gerrie de Haas on Thursday, 20 May 2010
Category: Gerrie de Haas

Tunisia: Does it look like Paris, or like Greece, or a scene from Star Wars? Who knows...

The beautiful French architecture of Tunis.  Tunis, complete with street cafes and baguettes and a metro system, feels more like Paris than even Paris itself!

The Medina (or Old City) is one of the best places to get lost in...

This was the front door of the place where we stayed.

The ancient city of Carthage (Ancient Rome's greatest enemy!)...

This city was at one stage called Africae by the ancient Greeks, and that's where our continent got it's name from...just some trivia.

The beginning of our Luke10!!!!!  This picture was taken at the fort on the island Djerba. Behind us is the Mediterranean.

Somehow this doesn't really look like we are in Africa...

Our Luke 10 journey took us to the Northern reaches of the Sahara desert to a city called Tataouine.  This is where we met this guy who showed us around.  This picture was taken at Ksar Hadada where they shot  a lot of scenes for Star Wars: Episode 1.

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The splendour of the Sahara desert.

We walked 15 Km's through the desert to the town in the back!!! This day was a real highlight for me so far...

Sunset in the desert.

The last leg of our journey brought us to this church: The French Reformed church in Tunis.  Here we met with some of the most amazing people we've met so far and suddenly realised that there is a huge community of believers in Tunisia.  God really showed us the intensity of the revival that's happening in Tunisia and in North Africa and we will forever be thankful that we were blessed with the opportunity to witness and experience it first hand.

Sitting in a church FULL of people who are all from a Muslim background, brave enough to meet openly in a public building in the face of persecution...seeing them praising the Lord in Arabic and giving testimonies of how they got saved and how God protected some of them in prison, is something that I'll never forget for as long as I live...

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