BMS World Mission

France

Stats
Region: Europe
Capital: Paris
Area: 547,030 sq km
Population: 63,713,926 (est July 2007)
Languages: French, regional dialects: Provencal, Breton, Alsatian, Corsican, Catalan, Basque, Flemish
Religions: Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, Judaism, Islam
Life expectancy: 80.59 (est 2007)
Population below poverty line: 6.2% (2004)

 

France

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BMS World Mission works with the Fédération des Eglises Evangéliques Baptistes de France (FEEBF). BMS worked in Brittany as far back as the 1800s but, in more recent times, started sending workers to the country in 1988 and there are currently two BMS couples involved in local churches in Lyons and Rouen. Philip Halliday, BMS Regional Secretary for Europe, is also based in France following a number of years leading the church in Massy. In addition to sending British personnel, BMS financially supports French church planters.