Next Wave International™ is a faith-based communications group which is training organizations to engage the future & move society forward in a positive direction. Founder / Director: Mal Fletcher
France is the only avowedly secular nation in Europe - secularism is built into its constitution. What more challenging place to plant a church?
The brave souls at Hillsong Church, London, did that two years or so ago and today the Hillsong London church in Paris is thriving.
Mal Fletcher, a good friend of church leader Pastor Brendan White, visited again recently to speak to the church and to their inaugural leadership event.
Once again, he found a church buzzing with anticipation, yet grounded in the challenge of growing a church in the midst of a very commercialised and rationalistic city.
Mal said: 'I'm very pleased to see what Brendan, his wife Camille and their team have achieved, even in just the past year since I was here last.
'There's a sense of building something for the long haul, rather than simply lasting from week to week. I know from long experience that this kind of thinking takes time to build into a church - or any organization - and it's a sign that these people are really going to see this through.
For more on Hillsong London Church in Paris, visit www.hillsong.fr.
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Loved listening to you today when you came to St Louis family Church! It's so important to engage the world we are living in, thanks for the reminder. Rue, United States
Hey Mal - great article on your trip to Bradford!! Dan, United Kingdom
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