The Pastors
Here are the Pastors of the 4 main churches in Orleans. (One is missing - so there are in fact 5!) In a vast city like this it is amazing that there are only 5 main-stream churches. The largest is the Pentecostal church which has an attendance of about 300. They have 3 pastors on the photo. Next is our Baptist church, with an attendance of about 100. There are also 3 evangelical free churches, but they are quite small. (20 - 50) That means there are about 600 main-stream church attenders in a city of 250 000 inhabitants. To give you an idea of scale, Aberystwyth, where I went to university, is a town of 11 000 - yet the Anglican church I went to there has an attandance of about 400, and that’s only 1 church in the town!
Please pray for Orleans and France in general. It is hard for UK believers to grasp how small the church in France is and how much it needs our support and our prayers. But praise God for the unity there is amongst the different pastors and their churches in Orleans. (We meet together every month for a LONG meeting!) Do pray that this continues.
