Église Fireplace, France
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Église Fireplace, France
Église Fireplace, France Volunteers
Latest updates and requests from Jamie & Michaela…
New role
Jamie is now working for Église Fireplace part time. His main role is to establish a youth group for the young people in the church. Since September he has started meeting with the young people on a Sunday afternoon in the building that the church rents in central Paris. There are currently 8 YP aged from 11 to 15 years old. Jamie’s vision for the group is for the youth to grow in faith together, to learn to be part of the wider church and to feel confident to invite non-Christian friends to join the group. He also has a range of other jobs within the church (admin and pastoral) related to his role as an intern.
Studies
Jamie has been studying two days a week at La Faculté Libre de Théologie Evangelique (Vaux- Sur-Seine) since mid -September. He is undertaking a bachelors degree in theology, which involves Biblical languages, dogmatics (doctrines of faith), Old Testament (history, context and canon) and ethics (with a practical focus on how ethical understanding of scripture can be applied to difficult life situations). The work is demanding and Jamie has to submit essays and sit 5 exams by the end of January!
Family
We are grateful that God has provided us with our own home, which we moved into at the end of November. It needs a lot of work to modernise the property, but as a family we are enjoying the space. The house is part way between the schools Aya and Ezra attend. We have already made good connections with neighbours. Michaela has started to reach out to other Mums at the school gate and has been invited for coffee with a Muslim lady from North Africa, who was very keen to talk about faith and was very excited as Michaela is first person to accept the offer of coffee in the 5 years the lady has been in the area.
Future
One of the key reasons we moved to SW Paris is to work with Église Fireplace to plant a church in the Versailles area of Paris (there are currently almost no evangelical churches in this region). At the moment the focus is on establishing the core team, so members meet once a month to pray together, to pray for people they are reaching out to in the area (the vision is to have 200 connections in the area before the church plant starts) and to receive teaching.
Prayer requests
- Pray for Jamie as he completes essays and prepares for exams
- Pray for Jamie and Michaela to build relationships with people in the local area
- Pray for Église Fireplace to locate a more permanent building in central Paris for meetings