Nelson Family

Laura & her husband, Edward, moved to Paris in 2002, focussed on local evangelism, encouraging church-planting and training gospel workers. They planted a church in Ternes (www.ternes.fr) in 2007, in their area of central-west Paris – a wealthy, traditionally Catholic area with very little evangelical witness. The church has grown slowly from about 20 adults to about 80, with a good number coming from the local area. Since Edward's death in 2020, Laura has continued working for Ternes Church on the pastoral team, with an emphasis on local evangelism and training women. She is also on the board of directors of an evangelical French publishing house, and involved in various regional and national initiatives training women and teaching the Bible at conferences around France. Her focus, and that of the children, remains sharing the gospel in a country where there are so few Christians or evangelical churches. The Lord has kindly given more opportunities to open the Bible with friends and neighbours, invite people to church and set up evangelistic Bible study groups. Laura and Edward also shared a passion for training up French gospel workers and to this end, Laura has been involved in setting up and running a Trust Fund in Edward’s memory to encourage and fund internships and training of the younger generation (www.2timothee22.fr). There were 10 interns in 2021, 25 in 2022, 37 in 2023 and 38 signed up for this year, thanks to money raised. Laura organises monthly training sessions, mentoring and an annual retreat.
Nicolas (21), Samuel (19), Alexandre (17) and Lucie (14) are all keen to share the gospel with their friends at their different schools/universities, and enjoy serving in church. Please pray for the Lord to use the 2T22 Fund to raise up faithful workers for his harvest-field. Please pray for the Nelson children to grow and persevere with joy as they serve Jesus in different ways this year. And pray for the Eglise des Ternes and its witness in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, that it might be used by God to draw many to Christ.

Click here to watch a video on the ministry of Laura Nelson.

Click here to see a summary of the talk given by Laura at a recent Women's Brunch: Liberté! What does the Bible say to revolutionary French and uptight Brits about real freedom?

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Welcome from the Vicar

Let me welcome you to St John’s! I am so delighted you have found our web site. We are a Church family in Wimborne for anyone living, working or studying around this area. Whoever you are, whatever your age, whether you’re an experienced Christian or not, we would love you to join us.

From an intrigued onlooker to the committed follower we are keen that everyone should grow in relationship with God through knowing Jesus. To help us do that our emphasis is on hearing God speak to us by his Holy Spirit through his word, the Bible. Each of us knows that we only grow in a relationship with someone and get to know them when we spend time listening to them and responding and reacting to what they say. So the focus of St John’s is on listening to God’s word, talking to him in prayer and taking up all that he says.

The Church family here at St John’s longs to help anyone who wants to investigate the life of Jesus. On this site you will find people, meetings, talks and events shaped to help you take another step forward in finding out more about God and his love for us in Jesus, and to help you get linked into the church family life.

I do hope I will have the opportunity to meet you personally in the very near future and that you will quickly feel at home at St John’s.

Revd. Peter Breckwoldt