Welcome to France! After arriving in Paris, we’ll settle into our accommodations and gather for a welcome dinner. Opening devotional and orientation: what does it mean to serve as the hands and feet of Christ in a new culture?

Explore the city’s highlights on a guided Segway tour, passing the Eiffel Tower, Notre-Dame, and the Champs-Élysées. Evening devotional on cultivating a servant’s heart.

Enjoy a culinary tour through the historic Montmartre neighborhood, then take an evening cruise along the Seine River. Evening devotional on seeing a city’s beauty and its need side by side.

Meet our local partners — a homeless outreach organization and a children’s home — and learn about the week’s service plans. Devotional: praying for the week ahead.

Our week of service begins! Serve alongside a local organization providing meals, supplies, and genuine connection to Paris’s homeless community. Afternoons include team debrief and reflection.

Continue serving alongside outreach staff and volunteers, building relationships one conversation and one meal at a time.

Spend the day at a local children’s home or orphanage, playing games, helping with homework, and simply spending time with the children there.

Continue time at the children’s home, wrapping the week with a closing celebration alongside the staff and children we’ve come to know.

Visit Claude Monet’s home and gardens in Giverny, the inspiration behind many of his most famous paintings — a peaceful close to a meaningful week.

Final group devotional and debrief: what did God teach us this week? Depart for home.