Shepherding Trips Report

We are full of thanksgiving to our dear Lord Jesus for what He has accomplished since the gospel trips in 2024 with so many saints praying and coming from all over the earth to join us. So many dear new ones that were contacted beginning in 2024 and since then continue to be shepherded by those who have come on shepherding trips for 1-3 months. How the Lord has blessed His Body by His working to bring about the church life in a number of places! We rejoice that two new lampstands, Nanterre and Toulouse, are being raised up in France. It is the Lord's doing and it is marvelous in our eyes!

 

Dear Saints,

 

With much joy and thanksgiving, we would like to announce that the saints in Paris will be celebrating the raising up of a new lampstand in the Paris region.

 

We are deeply grateful for your faithful prayers throughout the years and for your participation in the gospel work here. By the Lord’s mercy and grace, we now invite you to join us on November 2nd in standing together for a new testimony in Nanterre.

 

We joyfully anticipate this precious time of fellowship and blending, to celebrate this feast with all the saints. May the Lord richly bless this new beginning, and may He continue to raise up shining lampstands throughout France, across Europe, and all over the earth for the building up of the Body and the preparation of the bride for His return.

 

In Christ,

The Saints in Paris

Dear brothers and sisters,

 

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. With immense joy and hearts full of praise, we announce that the Lord is raising up the church in Toulouse, France, as a shining golden lampstand for His testimony. We are profoundly grateful for the prayers in the Body for the Lord’s move in Toulouse the past year. 

 

May the Lord cause His lampstand in Toulouse to shine brightly for His glory and continue to establish such testimonies throughout France, across Europe, and around the world for the building up of His Body.

 

In Christ,

The Serving Brothers in Toulouse

I recently moved to Lille, France, from the United States. I never thought that I would have a chance to be a part of the Lord’s move to raise up churches in a different country.

 

In October 2024 I came to Lille thinking I would be just visiting saints. The plans were made before the Olympic distributions had taken place. What I experienced was a different type of vacation. I was immediately thrust into home meetings with so many new ones. We had so much enjoyment! All that we read together, although I’d read it before, and all that we sang together, although I had sung it before, was so fresh, new, and living!

 

After this initial visit, I returned to the US with the desire to visit again. So, in the following spring I came with a sister on a “shepherding trip” to Lille, and we had such fresh enjoyment, the same fresh enjoyment that we had tasted on the 2024 gospel trip! The saints were written on our hearts. Out of that time there arose the sense within me to apply for a long-stay visa and live in Lille.

 

Just as the Lord moved by moving within the saints to migrate to Russia, we all had reasons to stay where we were and enjoy a wonderful church life. None of us were (or are) qualified to move to another country and be a part of raising up lampstands. We never felt qualified to migrate to Russia, but then a brother shared how we need to heed the Lord’s speaking. Some hear the word, and it speaks to them, but it doesn’t form roots and grow. He shared how the word concerning Russia would remain in us and would bother us until we heeded His speaking. So, it wasn’t our qualifications; it was the Lord’s speaking that caused us to migrate.

 

The thought of moving to Lille came out of the enjoyment with the dear ones here and a sense from the Lord. I feel that I am not qualified, but I had to heed the sense. And my circumstances allowed me to be able to apply for a long-term visa, and the Lord to open the way practically.

 

It’s not easy to live in a foreign country, especially when you don’t speak the language. It’s also difficult to drop your culture and not bring your church life culture with you. But the Lord is able to overcome in us and in the environment. I praise and thank the Lord for allowing me this opportunity.

 

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