Lydia

Right before our trip to Greece, one of the gals in my small group taught on Lydia from Philippi (we were studying John MacArthur's 12 Extraordinary Women). I have always loved this character from the Bible and Philippians is my favorite book of the Bible so it was such a highlight to visit this area of Greece.

        We started the day listening to the account of Lydia in Acts 16 and a reading of Philippians.

Lydia was a seller of purple fabrics and the purple dye came from these sea snails.........hundreds were placed on a fabric and then crushed.....once crushed each snail would release 2 - 3 drops of purple dye.

                                       That's me trying to be a modern day Lydia by the river!

     This was a real cool mosaic in the small Greek Orthodox church by the river of Paul's missionary       journeys.

                                        Pretty stain glassed windows in the Greek Orthodox church