Vineyard Church Project of Tourcoing

On one side, most of the history and development of Vineyard churches in the USA and across the world are predominantly based in English. On the other, a church plant in France must acquire and build its identity using the indigenous language: French.

Similarly, most of our links to the Vineyard tribe are based in English, and most of our friends and acquaintances are still bathed in the English language.

Therefore, on one hand I wanted to acknowledge quickly the fact that a successful Vineyard plant would necessarily use the French language as main medium, yet I did not want to cut myself too quickly from my largely English-speaking support base.

For this and other practical reasons, it seemed reasonable to start off with two mirror blogs

The Church of Jesus-Christ is made up of men and women of all ages, social standing, ethnic groups and languages. According to his bottomless Love, God wished his Church to hold all of humankind in its entirety, and it is up to his Church to become what it has been called to be.

Often, we encounter opposition to starting a new church due to the fact there are other churches in the area. We wonder whether this would create confusion amongst the other churches.But this is not a valid argument, it is better to think about the people that still do not recognize God's blessings in their life; for these people, typically balloted by circumstances they endure, it is well worth to give them the chance to know their Savior and Lord just as was offered to us, in their own culture and personal situation, wherever they are.

Because Jesus has not raised us to heaven, but instead came down from heaven to earth to meet us.

Have you met him yet?

(translated from French)