Dearest Friends,

     I write this as Francis and I are flying over the ocean on our way back from a trip to France. We are filled with gladness as we talk about how we see the Lord opening the way for us to again minister in France. While we were in Lyon, good news arrived from the States—the Federal government has officially granted tax exempt status to Huguenot Heritage, Inc.. It has existed as a non-profit organization in the State of Idaho since October 2007, but had not yet received 501(c)3 status. But now this ministry, created to help bring about Reformation and Revival in France, is a full-fledged non-profit legal entity with all contributions being retroactively tax-exempt from October 2007.

     While in France, Francis preached twice in the church where our son-in-law is ministering, and he also had the opportunity to interact with many other French pastors during our stay. He felt right at home, and was grateful to be using his gifts in his own language in his native country in the culture that he knows so well.

Many people don’t realize that France is a desperately needy mission field; only ½ of 1 % of the population are evangelical Christians! And among that small number of Christians, there is a strong neo-evangelical movement that has weak and dangerous hermeneutical principles as its basis for interpretation of Scripture. The need for robust theology and for teaching on marriage and family life, apologetics, and worship makes us eager to start planning the first small Huguenot Heritage Conference for the summer of 2010. Francis sees the beginning of Huguenot Heritage conferences as an essential precursor to significant church-planting.

      As God provides funding, Francis will be moving towards that first conference by setting up the Huguenot Heritage office in France this coming summer (2009). From that base, he will be using his church-planter’s gifts of contact-making as he meets and talks with people, all the while prayerfully seeking spiritually hungry ones to invite to the 2010 Huguenot Heritage conference. He will also be planning the logistics of the conference as well as researching and writing the content of his portion of the teaching.

     In the meantime, we keep on with the work of our restaurant in Idaho, West of Paris, while Francis continues support-raising and planning by phone and internet from here.

      We are grateful for the support that some of you already send to Huguenot Heritage! It has allowed Huguenot Heritage to pay all of the lawyer’s fees for the 501( c )3 process, and it helped finance this current trip to France. If God puts it on your heart to help provide the monthly support that we are seeking to free us from the work of the restaurant, or if you would like to give a one-time gift to help finance the trip to France this summer, you can let us know by returning the enclosed card. We would be so grateful to have you partner with us to help bring the Gospel to France, with the prayerful goal of seeing Reformation and Revival again in the land of Calvin as this year we celebrate the 500^th anniversary of the gift of his life and ministry.

Sincerely in our Lord Jesus Christ,

Francis and Donna Foucachon

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