Tom & Lucy Blanchard

Ministry:

Tom is involved in church-based leadership training in France.  He works with a Belgian pastor in the Albertville Church in Savoie and its annexes where he has pastoral and teaching responsibilities. He also teaches at the Geneva Bible Institute in Switzerland, at the French Torchbearer school in Grenoble, as well as in several decentralized training programs in France and Québec. He is an active member of the Theological Commission of the Evangelical Federation of France. He writes courses for the Institute of Applied Evangelical Theology (ITEA), has published two books in French on the Hebrew Old Testament, and is involved with several other writing projects. Lucy is actively involved in local ministry in the Albertville area.

How to Pray

1. Pray that God would use our live for His glory here, helping the Albertville Church to maintain and increase in our vision.
 
2. Pray for and increased vision for seeing the multiplication of churches and leaders in this very needy area of Savoie and Haute-Savoie here in southeastern France.

3. Pray that we and all our children will walk closely with the Lord.
4. Pray that God will raise up a solid generation of new leaders to carry His work forward into the 21st century in the French-speaking world.

Country Profile

Quick Facts about the French people:
• Only about 1% of French people have a relationship with Jesus Christ.
• There is a high unemployment rate.
• There is a high divorce rate and high suicide rate.
• Youth are often hopeless about their future.
• Many experience a sense of loneliness and isolation.
• There are very few evangelical churches.
• There is an increasing Muslim population, 10% of the total French population.
• There are many cults in France.
• There is a great interest in astrology and the occult.
 
Birthdays:
Tom  8/6/53
Lucy 2/6/52
Liz 1/6/79
Marie 4/16/81
Annette 11/18/82, married to Dave Souers on 8/6/05
David  6/23/91
 
Anniversary
12/23/75

Ordained by CBC
January 13, 1980

Appointed by CBC - 
May 1980