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Prayer News from France Mission – Issue 127 – Spring 2013
Inside this
Edition
A new church-plant
in Aix-les-Bains
A spiritual centre
for Argenton
www.france-mission.org
Asnieres: past,
present & future
Paul’s page:
The ups and downs of church-planting
2012 financial review
Reflections by Dr Paul Cooke, FM’s British Director
F
T
here are some exciting stories in this issue
of Action Missionnaire. The new project in
Aix-les-Bains (pages 8-9) represents the first
phase of an ambitious vision to see three new
churches planted in this Alpine valley over the
next decade. And the spiritual centre being
developed at Argenton-sur-Creuse (pages
12-13) illustrates well how FM churches seek
to send out shoots from an established base (in
this case, the church in Châteauroux).
Similar stories are happening in various places
around France. If you haven’t yet acquired your
copy of the new DVD – “Vocation: Implanteur
d’église” (Vocation: Church-Planter) – please
let me encourage you to do so (see page 15 for
more details). I’m sure it’ll give you a strong
sense of how the Lord is at work in France and
provide you with valuable insights into the life
of church-planters and their families.
Once the excitement of the initial churchplanting project is over, of course, the call is to
persevere in the patient – often challenging –
work of evangelism, discipleship, and pastoral
care. Such ministry benefits enormously from
faithful, long-term prayer. So thank you to
all those of you who have been praying in
precisely this way for many years now – what
a blessing you are to our missionaries and
churches!
Sadly, though, sometimes things just don’t
work out as we would have wished – and I’m
very sorry to report that the Burke family have
taken the painful decision to return to the
UK (see page 15 for more details). They’re a
wonderful family and it’s been a huge privilege
getting to know them over the past couple
irstly, a huge thank you for supporting us – whether through prayer or finances – in 2012.
If your gifts enable ministry from a practical perspective, your prayers support ministry from a
spiritual perspective. In 2012, thanks to your generosity, we received income of £301,481 made up
as follows:
of years. God certainly
has new plans for them
back in the UK, but let’s
pray that they feel Him
incredibly close to them
as they prepare to bid
farewell to France.
Every blessing
2012 income
0.3%
0.3%
Designated gifts
12.7%
General gifts
63.3%
Gift Aid
23.4%
Interest
Legacies
www.facebook.com/FMTrust
Church plant
Developing church
Front-page photo: The Aix-men(!): Matthieu, Steve, Thierry, Raphaël
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Paul Cooke provides an overview of how your generous donations
were used last year
FOR YOUR PRAYERS EVERY SUNDAY
Maturing church
Adult church
@PaulFmTrust
Daughter church
Activity centre
And our expenditure amounted to
£300,351 used as shown in the pie chart
on the right:
All of the UK missionaries whose
reports regularly feature in the pages of
this magazine are supported primarily
through the gifts received by France
Mission Trust. We also receive regular
donations for a number of French
missionaries, as well as arranging special
appeals for particular projects (such as
the new premises for the Église de la
Brie in 2012).
A formal set of accounts for 2012 is
available on the FM website
(www.france-mission.org/fmtrust/
finance.html), which also links to the
Charity Commission’s website. If you
would like any more information, please
feel free to contact me using any of the
contact details provided on the back
page of this magazine.
Thank you once again for your
wonderful support!
If you’d like a
statement of gifts
for the tax year
2012–2013, please
just ask and I’ll gladly
supply you with one
after 5 April 2013
2012 expenditure
0.7%
0.2%
0.8%
7.4%
9.1%
81.9%
Support for missionaries/project
Advertising
Director’s costs
Administration
Communication
Governance
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All change at Asnierès
Missionaries Peter & Suzanne Brown reflect
on their time pastoring this FM church in
the Parisian suburbs
A women’s Bible study
S
ince bidding farewell to Asnières over the
summer of 2012, we’ve started a new
pastoral ministry in Quebec. Time now to look
back… Time to thank God – and to thank you!
We “inherited” the pastoral responsibility for
Asnières in 2005 from Pierre Egger, the church
founder. Our objective was to help it move on
to maturity and autonomy.
Asnières allowed us to discover African and
Caribbean cultures. Their faith context and
socio-economic situations differed radically
from our own previous church experience.
Crowds would come to Sunday services and
most were immigrants. Their world was a
cruel one, made up of menial jobs, separation
from loved ones, low-standard housing, and
an uncertain welcome in the host country.
Their understanding of the faith was often
full of confusion – an amalgam of the gospel,
prosperity teaching, Catholicism, animism… but
they came to church, hungry for God.
Asnières helped us understand our Saviour
who had
compassion on the
crowds “because
they were
harassed and
helpless” (Mathew
9:36). Jesus also
said: “Blessed
are the poor in
spirit, for theirs
is the Kingdom
of Heaven”
(Mathew 5:3).
For us, these
Pastor Nicol Lesaint & his
people were no
wife Mari-Jo
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Meet
missionaries
Elcio & Sueli
Rocha – the
couple we
would love to see at the
FM church in Asnières
diverse congregation in a
relatively poor Parisian suburb.
We’re delighted at the prospect of serving in
France, but also well aware of the challenges.
We pray that God will use us to help extend
His kingdom in France. We’d love to leave for
Asnières in the next few months, but still need
to find some additional regular support. The
Asnières church are very generously going to
provide our accommodation and FM Trust have
offered to help with our relocation costs.
H
longer just objects of ministry. They became
examples of spiritual urgency and vitality.
New faces would rotate through the church
at an exhausting pace for those who tried to
learn names and initiate some sort of pastoral
care. We learned to seek God’s grace as never
before. Souls were saved, marriages stabilised,
and disciples made. We learnt to lean on our
ethnic brothers and sisters to sort out problems
we, with our cultural backgrounds, could not
always resolve.
The key to the church’s future was the
establishment of core lay leadership. The
church named its first elder in the spring of
2012. With the building paid off in January
2012, the church was freed to employ a parttime pastor – Nicol Lesaint. We were able to
leave Asnières with this new financial liberty
and church leaders who had become more
autonomous.
Nicol has a heavy pastoral load and would
greatly benefit from some co-workers. France
Mission hope that Elcio & Sueli Rocha will
be able to play that role. Pray that the new
leadership will hunger – as we did – for the
extraordinary grace of God who comes and uses
us in our weakness.
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ello! We’re both Brazilian nationals and
that’s where our missionary experience
started. We got married in 1990 and then, in
1994, God called us serve Him in Guinea – a
predominantly Muslim country in West Africa.
We were the first Brazilian couple to work there
as missionaries and our main role was to train
Guineans for mission. During this time our two
boys, Eduardo and Andre, were born. They are
now 21 and 19 respectively, and studying at
British universities.
A Sunday congregation
Please pray for:
The Rochas: Eduardo, Sueli, Elcio,
Andre (L to R)
We spent 12 years working in Frenchspeaking Africa, before returning to Brazil to
serve in a church in Sao Paulo. Then, in 2009,
we moved to the UK where I started work as
an associate pastor in a Portuguese-speaking
church in London. However, we still felt a call
to serve God in a French-speaking context.
Discussions with France Mission last year led to
the possibility of going to serve the church in
Asnières. Our various ministry experiences over
25 years should serve us well in an ethnically
• This new phase in our life
• Our two boys staying in the UK for their
studies
• The remaining financial support we need
• The ability to adapt well to life in
Asnières
You can contact Peter & Suzanne at
[email protected] and Elcio & Sueli
at [email protected]
FOR YOUR PRAYERS EVERY MONDAY
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Moving forward in Marseille
Missionaries Simon & Radia
Allchin share encouraging news
about their inner-city church
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012 was a year of great encouragement for
us at “Point Bible”. We now have twice as
many people regularly attending our Sunday
services and weekday meetings. The newcomers
are genuinely local and have diverse ethnic
backgrounds. They are also younger, have
families, and really want to get actively involved
in the ministry. This is not, of course, without
certain problems, but it has completely changed
the make-up of the church.
The second main development has been the
purchase of our new premises. We finally have
the keys, but still
await the official
stamp of the planning
authorities. We
went ahead with the Sunday School children
purchase because we
had the assurance that all the major aspects of
our dossier were fine. If we hadn’t signed, we
could have lost the opportunity. So signing this
contract was partly an act of faith and we ask you
to pray for this situation.
Although Marseille is the European City of
Culture for 2013, we are in a very run-down
part of town. However, there is a tremendous
potential for a dynamic Christian witness here.
Jesus Christ is present and is transforming lives.
We are at a point where we need a full-time
Christian couple (we are only part-time), and
if we find them we will continue to work here
alongside them.
Sharing a meal after the service
Longstanding FM supporters, David &
Ruth Shillitoe, recently visited “Point
Bible” and have provided a report
which gives an excellent flavour of a
Sunday service there. You can
download it at www.france-mission.
org/fmtrust/newsletters.html. The
photos on this page were taken by the
Shillitoes during this visit.
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Simon explaining the gospel to a visitor
You can send encouragements to Simon &
Radia at [email protected]
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Reaching out and seeking God
in Le Pré Saint Gervais
Missionaries Jonathan & Rachel Vaughan outline
new developments and challenges
The Fête de Noël
Starting an all-age service at Le Pré
We were greatly encouraged by the children’s
Fête de Noël (Christmas Celebration) where
we welcomed nine non-church families,
five of them attending church for the first
time. Christmas is a great opportunity to
invite people to an event, but we have been
thinking for some time about how we can
encourage these families to come along at
other times of the year. We are therefore
testing the idea of a monthly all-age service,
starting in March, to see if it can create a
“bridge” between one-off events and our regular
Sunday services. We plan to use similar elements
from the Christmas events that appeal to people
– interactive Bible teaching, with opportunities
for discussion and craft activities for the kids, and
an apéritif (drinks and nibbles) afterwards. The
all-age services
will be held in
the morning and
will be shorter
than our usual
late-afternoon
services, in the
hope that this
makes it easier
for non-church
families to come.
We are starting
a new teaching
series on Exodus
and the all-age
services will
therefore be on
Ben Firth
the same theme.
Please do pray for these services, for
people to come and feel welcome, for
clear Bible-teaching, and for all of us to get
a fresher, larger view of God.
Trusting God during change
The church is set for some big changes this year,
as several key members will be leaving us in June.
Please pray that God would send new
people who can help lead and teach. Pray
that as a church we would depend on God
and trust rather than worry, hope rather
than be discouraged.
We are very much looking forward to the
arrival of Ben Firth, a language student
on his year abroad, who will be coming to
improve his French whilst working for the
church from March to July.
Send Jonathan & Rachel a message at
[email protected]
FOR YOUR PRAYERS EVERY TUESDAY
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Being the hands and feet of Jesus
Aerial view of Aix-les-Bains
and Lac du Bourget
Missionary Thierry Mirone introduces the
church-planting project for Aix-les-Bains
and surrounding area
O
ver the last two years we’ve been putting
together a team to go to the region
“Between 3 Lakes” that reaches from Aix-lesBains to Cruseilles, passing through Rumilly. This
Alpine valley represents a population of nearly
100,000 people. Our goal is to form a team with
a mixture of gifts, talents, and experience that
can touch the population through many different
avenues of service.
Steve & Donna Niles, leaders of the project, are
veteran missionaries who’ve been in a churchplanting ministry in France for 35 years. They’ve
just finished a church-plant in Annecy that
provides the sending church for the project in Aix.
We, Thierry & Valérie Mirone, with our three
boys, are the co-leaders of the Aix project. We’ve
served as missionaries with France Mission for the
last 13 years, specialising in discipleship training.
Frédéric & Johanna Defoy, a couple from
the Annecy church who are finishing their
Masters training, will be joining the team
in June 2013.
Jordan & Kate Egli, a young missionary couple
currently learning French, will have their first
church-planting experience with this project.
The team also has two Bible school students doing
their two-year internship:
Matthieu Giralt, whose expertise is in the arts
with a special emphasis on video communication.
Raphaël & Marion Charrier with Abi, their
18-month-old daughter. Raphaël is an evangelist
with France Évangélisation.
Our starting point is the largest-populated city
of the region, Aix-les-Bains. Each member of the
team is in the process of moving to this area, and
at this time we are concentrating our efforts to:
• Study the “background history” of the city to
identify needs and interests
• Develop relationships with local people
• Work through the many administrative steps
for a church-plant
• Look for a meeting place adapted to the
activities we want to undertake
Our approach to ministry is founded on four
particular values:
• Be the gospel incarnate as a community of
believers in the city
• Be obedient to the missionary mandate to
multiply disciples
• Be an example of the gospel in word and deed
• Be the Body of Christ with daily fellowship and
brotherly love
Prayer needs for the Aix team and
project:
Potential church premises – inside…
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… and outside
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• To develop key relationships in
Aix-les-Bains
• To find a more permanent
building solution
• To serve the city as the visible
“hands and feet” of Jesus
• To find housing for all the team
members
L to R: Matthieu, Steve, Thierry, Raphaël
The first church service was held on 24th February,
bringing together the contacts the team members
have been developing. The new church is made up
of several isolated Christians who’ve been praying
for some time to see a church begin in their city.
We are meeting in rented facilities, hoping to find a
more permanent solution.
The Lord has led us to meet several key people
who’ve been able to help us in many areas. We can
see the hand of God at work through these new
relationships. We’ve been able to share our vision
and dreams and these people have fully embraced
the needs and goals of the project.
We’re developing a network
of partners willing
to commit to
join us in this
effort. For more
information
(including a
presentation
video in English),
visit us at www.
prayforaix.com.
FOR YOUR PRAYERS EVERY WEDNESDAY
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Building bridges in Châteauroux
Sharing the gospel in Montreuil-Bellay
Missionaries Paul
& Marjorie Dowling
see 2013 as a year
of evangelistic
outreach
Missionaries Chris & Colette Small ask us to pray
that contacts might become converts
January. There was a fantastic atmosphere for
the 17 kids who came, including 4 new contacts.
This gives us encouragement for the future.
Marjorie took the prime role in organising the
club and has also now started to teach in the
younger Sunday School, evidence that she is
making good progress with her French.
If 2011 was about settling in and 2012
he Lord answered so many of our prayers
dominated by the building, in 2013 we’re
over our inauguration weekend! The
looking to get really stuck in to the work of
building was ready in time (just!) and is already
spreading the gospel. The new building has
proving its worth. We had a
enabled us to start putting
number of visitors, including
“We’re so encouraged by on “bridge” events, such
a large group from our
a “Soirée Anglaise” held
these various responses.” as
(secular) choir, two members
on 9th February. We’re also
of Marjorie’s language course
looking at the (limited) range
with their families, and Paul’s hairdresser and
of resources available in French, such as the
family. We had another apéro (drinks and
Parcours Alpha (Alpha Course) and Dave Brown’s
nibbles) for the neighbours in January, which
Passerelles (Bridges) material to see what will
went extremely
work best here.
well and, in the
During the course of 2013 we’ll
course of the
be welcoming visiting teams from
evening, one of
churches in Yeovil, Glasgow and
the older people
possibly Brazil, all of whom share
present said that
a burden for this part of France.
she would like to
We’re very conscious of the need
come to church
for prayer to break down spiritual
one day. We’re
barriers and are very grateful for
so encouraged
your support in this.
Sunday school room
by these various
responses.
We held another successful Kids’ Club in late
T
Please pray for:
• Our personal witness to friends,
neighbours and acquaintances
• The church’s strategy to reach out in the
town
• The establishment of the work in
Argenton-sur-Creuse (see pages 12-13)
• The establishment of fruitful links with
churches in other parts of the world
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The official opening ceremony
Contact Paul & Marjorie at [email protected]
FOR YOUR PRAYERS EVERY THURSDAY
W
e’ve had many
opportunities
recently to present the
gospel and share our faith.
opportunities to share
Some of our language
the message of the Bible
students, neighbours, and
in group studies. We
a couple who’ve visited
make it clear where the
Fair Trade exhibitions at
limits are and, generally
the church came to our
speaking, our Catholic
home to taste Colette’s
friends accept graciously.
Galette des Rois – a great
We choose the passages
opportunity to share the
for study and present
good news about Jesus.
questions to the group.
A meeting in Doué
Then we were invited to
The discussion is often
a village supper in one of the local troglodyte
lively and the meeting finishes with a shared
caves. It didn’t take long for us to get heavily
meal. We’re trying to establish a regular series
involved in a discussion with four people. One
of meetings throughout the year.
professed to be a confirmed atheist, but the
Another objective is to
following day this man and his wife were to
lead people to study the
Bible for themselves.
Despite all these
opportunities to present
the Good News and the
increasing difficulties
of day-to-day living, no
new convert has yet
trusted the Lord for their
The troglodyte
salvation.
cave supper
be found leafing through a Bible on our bookstall at Doué market! The discussion begun the
previous evening was resumed, but it ended
with no apparent positive result. We have
since learned that the couple hosted a young
American girl over the summer who was an
evangelical Christian. We’ve invited them for
coffee in our home.
In February we had a meeting in Doué with our
Catholic friends, including half a dozen folk who
come from Angers. The church in MontreuilBellay is not ecumenical, but we welcome
• Please pray for all those with whom
we’ve recently shared the gospel
• Please cry to the Lord with us for
conversions and disciples
• Please pray that the light of God’s
Word might bring LIFE to our
Catholic friends
Keep in touch with Chris & Colette at
[email protected]
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Argenton-sur-Creuse – “white magic” country in the heart of France!
Missionaries Élise & Michaël Duchemann report on setting
up a spiritual centre for evangelisation and discipleship
Roger
& Sarah
Ravaiojaona
W
hen the Dowlings came to Châteauroux
real spiritual thirst here, people
and we got married, it felt as though the
just don’t know where to find
Lord was preparing us for a new project. When I
living water.
(Élise) was training in the UK, the Lord gave me a
We’re therefore convinced that God’s calling
vision of a desert spring. We now believe this to
us to open a spiritual centre with a prayer room
be an image of the spiritual desert in the centre
open during the week, rather than on Sundays. A
of France and also believe that we’re being called place where non-evangelicals can come to pray,
to create something rather different from a typitalk, and ask questions. A place where believers
cal local church.
can meet to pray for
The départements of
breaches in the for“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the
the Indre and the Creuse
tresses of the occult.
Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will A place where people
cover an area more
give water without cost from the spring
than half the size of
can be helped to read
of the water of life.”
Wales, but there are only
the Bible and start out
(Revelation 21:6) on, or be encouraged
three local evangelical
churches for a populain, their Christian walk.
tion of 356,000. In this rural region, evangelical
We also want to provide a retreat centre for
churches are often perceived as belonging to
committed Christians who need spiritual refresha foreign world. But attendance at Catholic
ment and prayer support.
churches is also very low. Many people have faith
We’ve therefore taken two concrete steps to
in “white magic” though, trusting in people with
help realise this vision. The first is to set up an
“gifts” believed to come from God. There’s a real
association called Aux sources vives (“Living
reluctance to attend services or meetings orgawaters”). In addition to us, the association
nised by evangelical churches. Although there is
has four other adult members: Roger & Sarah
Guest house & prayer room
Ravaiojaona and Olivier & Anne Dobé (plus their
four children). All six of us are members of the
FM church in Châteauroux where we all continue
to serve. We thank God that we can count on
the church’s support as we prepare ourselves
spiritually for what lies ahead and seek the Lord’s
will.
The second practical step was for Michaël and
me to move to Argenton-sur-Creuse to start
getting involved in local life, for example by
joining a folk dance group. In this rural location,
effective witness depends on being known in
the community and word-of-mouth is the most
powerful means of communication. The Lord
opened the way for us by providing an unexpected donation which enabled us to take out a
mortgage on a property comprising three buildings. We live in one of these and are doing it
up to become a guest house. Our future home
will be in the renovated stables. In time another
building will provide prayer- and meetingrooms as well as office space for missionaries.
The Ravaiojaonas and Dobés hope to join us in
Argenton in due course. Please pray for all that
lies ahead.
Please pray for:
• The establishment of a committed
team
The Dobé family
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• The renovation work
• Adequate finances for the project
• Good local connections
• Spiritual breakthroughs
Our future home
Let Élise & Michaël know you’re praying for
them at [email protected]
FOR YOUR PRAYERS EVERY FRIDAY
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Persevering in Auxerre
Other news from Paul Cooke
Missionaries Chris & Fiona Lloyd
provide an update on their social
outreach project
W
e want to take this opportunity of thanking
the many people who contributed to the
Auxerre Social Project fund. Now is an opportune
time to give you the story of what’s happened
with the project since last September.
At the start it was agreed by the church that
we would organise the project in collaboration
with the secular social worker based in the
Community Centre just opposite our building.
Chris fixed up a timetable with her for the
days on which we would do our distribution of
non-food items. These were to be on Saturday
mornings once a month.
After three months it was obvious that a
change had to be made. Each time we got ready
for the distribution Chris checked with the social
worker that there were people who were going
to come and each time no one came. After these
New DVD
discouraging times and several meetings with
the social worker, we decided on a new plan of
action. We decided that she would accompany
those whom she had recommended to benefit
from the project. This was to overcome a
reluctance to enter a church building. Also, we
changed the day and time of the distribution
to a Friday afternoon. This was to fit into the
timetable of mothers dropping off their children
at the local primary school.
So out came the products on a Friday
afternoon, just before the Christmas holidays.
We waited and waited and waited. No one. No
one at the Community Centre either. So we had
to pack up. After the holidays Chris met with the
social worker to find out what had happened.
She was very apologetic and said that she had
forgotten the date!
So we tried again
for another Friday
afternoon. This time
success: the social
worker arrived with
two ladies! The project
had finally begun! It
reminds me of a wellknown saying: “if at
first you don’t succeed,
try, try again.”
The Burke family
The Burke family have taken the difficult
decision to return to the UK. The main reason
for the decision is financial: the impact of the
tough economic climate in the UK, coupled with
higher costs of living in the Paris area, meant
that the Burkes were facing a significant shortfall
in their level of monthly support. This stressful
situation resulted in Julia falling ill with severe
Bell’s palsy and very high blood pressure. Praise
God, she is now recovering well, but must be
very careful in regards to stress. So, after much
prayer, sadness, and discussion, she and LeRoy
felt it right to return to the UK to spare Julia
and the rest of the family any further stress.
LeRoy will be returning to Baptist ministry, while
André and Henri will be resuming their British
education. Let’s thank God for the blessing the
family were to many people while in France and
ask Him to continue to bless and sustain them
over the weeks and months ahead.
Vocation: Implanteur
d’église (“Vocation:
Church-Planter”) is an
excellent DVD (with
English subtitles)
produced by the
National Council of
French Evangelicals. It
presents four recent
examples of French
church-planting,
including the FM
church in Loches. The
DVD retails at about
£8, but it’s such a great resource that we’ll gladly
send it you for free! Please just complete and
return the relevant part of the response form
that came with this magazine.
FM’s annual Congrès
(27-28 April 2013)
A great weekend if you
can speak French. For full
details see www.francemission.org/files/content.
cfm?PageMenuId=182.
Do let me know if you’re
going so we can arrange
to meet up.
RSCM France residential singing weekend
(21-23 June 2013)
RSCM France is the French area of the Royal
School of Church Music, dedicated to promoting
church music in all styles of worship. For
booking forms and information, see
www.rscmfrance.org.
You can contact
Chris & Fiona
at chris.lloyd@
orange.fr
Some of the items we distribute
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scotland
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Lisburn BT28 3QE. Tel: 028 9266 5804
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[email protected]
Eb & Dean Gargano, 158 Wantley Hill, Henfield,
West Sussex BN5 9JN. Tel: 01273 495757
[email protected]
SOUTH WALES AND WEST OF ENGLAND
Peter Farley, The Old Chapel, Chapel Lane,
Minchinhampton, Glos GL6 9DL. Tel: 01453 884454
[email protected]
Paul Cooke, PO Box 743, Exeter, EX1 9RN.
Tel: 07980 450462 or 01392 213275
[email protected]
Each area representative offers your church or Christian
Union group:
• Up-to-date news about God’s work in France.
• DVD presentations.
• PowerPoint presentations or OHP acetates to explain
France Mission’s strategy.
• France Mission literature.
Please contact your local representative direct by email,
letter or phone as above.
ALL OTHER REGIONS
Paul Cooke, PO Box 743, Exeter, EX1 9RN.
Tel: 07980 450462 or 01392 213275
[email protected]
FRANCE MISSION is a French-based Protestant evangelical mission
organisation founded in France in 1957. Our French headquarters
is at 14 rue d’Annam, 75020 Paris. We are a fellowship of over
120 church-planting missionaries of all nationalities, of whom
the majority are French nationals and 14 come from the United
Kingdom.
FRANCE MISSION TRUST is the mission’s UK support office,
a registered charity (Number 267979) founded in 1974. Our UK
Trustees are: Matt Ebdon, Peter Farley, Ruth Lodge, Nigel Sullivan,
Bob Skelly. France Mission Trust is a group member of the
Evangelical Alliance and a member society of Global Connections.
Donations should be made payable to “France Mission” and sent
to the Exeter office. Gifts designated for particular missionaries are
forwarded without deduction.
MIDLANDS
Nigel Sullivan, 161 Wheelwright Lane, Ash Green,
Coventry CV7 9HR. Tel: 024 7636 2331
[email protected]
NORTH OF ENGLAND AND NORTH WALES
Colin Judkins, 55 Victoria Road, Northwich, Cheshire
CW9 5RE. Tel: 01606 49859
[email protected]
This newsletter is also available in large print. It is published
three times a year, and is available free of charge from:
FRANCE MISSION TRUST,
PO Box 743, EXETER EX1 9RN (UK)
Tel: 07980 450462 or 01392 213275
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.france-mission.org
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