Giving thanks for achievements in 2024, including its involvement in a project seeing a million people pledge to pray for the nation, Impact France is looking ahead at the new year with hope. The mission, based jointly in Paris (France) and Atlanta (USA), mobilizes prayer and facilitates financial giving to French Christian ministries involved in evangelism in France.
The need for French people to know Christ remains critical, the ministry says. Data from the Conseil National des Évangéliques de France (CNEF) from 2023 noted 745,000 practising evangelicals in the country, an increase from 650,000 in 2017 yet still a very small minority in a nation of 68 million people.
In its latest update, the Impact France Team recalled with thankfulness some achievements in evangelism during the past year, 2024.
“The end of the year is often a time for reflection, a time to ask: how have we seen God at work in our lives in the last year, and what might He be guiding us to in the year ahead?” they said.
Pointing to record giving of more than US$3M to 159 different ministry projects, they said: “Mission-critical funds were received across the board by local churches, training and discipleship programs, mercy ministries, community centers, schools, arts-based programs, unique projects during the Summer Games, and more.” 37 new ministry projects joined the mission’s “family of partners.”
The mission was also involved as content creators in a special prayer initiative set up by International Prayer Connect during the summer resulting in more than a million people recording a commitment to pray for France.
“As we prepare for the year to come, we are full of hope that the Lord can and will do yet more through the Impact France community,” they said.
Impact France was the idea of American David Broussard, according to the ministry's website. He gave his life to Jesus Christ in October 1994 at Place du Salin in the city of Toulouse and was discipled in the Centre Evangélique des Pradettes. Upon returning to the U.S., he discovered most of his countrymen had no idea about God’s work in France.
Broussard and his wife Sophie visited France in 2004 to help a church in Poitiers with a thanksgiving outreach where a church member asked him if he knew anyone willing to support a Christian camp. The conversation and his desire to respond to most Americans' lack of awarness about French Christians, led him to found the first iteration of Impact France under the name Christian Community Foundation of France in June 2005.
The focus of the mission remains consistent, in “mobilizing prayer and supporting the work of native French ministries. Being a bridge, a platform, and a connector to help Americans pray for and invest in the Kingdom in France.”
