Selcuk, Turkey

While we have been in Selcuk, Turkey God gave us many opportunities for our team to minister in the community. We made contact with the Governor, who was very excited about us being there, and wanted to work with us! He gave us an opportunity to take pictures around the town of the women, men, villages, ruins, and many other things. As we went around the town taking photos we were able to build many relationship with the people. We weren’t just any foreigners, but we became friends to these people and were really able to understand their culture. So many things in the muslim culture are misunderstood and we were able to brake down those walls and see things for what they really were. 

After we took extreme amounts of photos we put together a selection of pictures that we thought God could use to touch the people. The theme God gave us was exposing beauty and that was exactly what we aimed for. In each of the photos we put a word that matched that photo and the theme of the whole exhibition. 

[My exhibition photo meaning friendship]

[Hanneke and John Paul putting up photos]

[The exhibition. Photo: Christina Tyler]

During the exhibition we had many of the people come to look at the photos. Some that we had seen before and some that we had not! It was a time of being able to minister to the people and sharing with them what we were doing there. The people were very excited to see the way saw their world and how we could take something that they saw everyday and make it look beautiful. It was not only a blessing to them but also to us.