In November 2025, there were breakthroughs in five cities in France for four consecutive weeks: in Nanterre and Toulouse, the churches had their first Lord’s table meeting. In Lille, there was the first Lord’s Day meeting. A Bible seminar was also held in Rouen, with the expectation of establishing a church in 2026. Additionally, saints went to visit the seekers in Marseille, hoping that a church can be established there the year after next.
After 2017, France had maintained five churches. In 2021, a group of French saints began to pray weekly for the Lord to have a breakthrough in the French-speaking countries. During the 2024 Olympics, saints from all over the world participated together through prayer, financial offerings, and coordination in distributing Bibles, which caused the hearts of the young people in French-speaking countries to become open, and many Christians longed to be delivered from religion and have a practical church life. After more than a year of spreading and shepherding, the ascended Christ has established two golden lampstands in France.
On November 1, 2025, a small conference was held in a city near Nanterre with the general subject, “Being Absolute for the Truth.” The fellowship focused on our need to be absolute for the existing truth, the highest truth, and the subjective truth. On November 2, the establishing meeting of the church in Nanterre was held, with testimonies from eight families. Many of them were saved and had started families in Paris before moving west to Nanterre and its surrounding cities.
One new one testified that it was God’s mercy that allowed him to meet the saints and be born into God’s family. Many saints who had previously coordinated in the spreading and short-term shepherding also participated in this meeting, testifying that the Lord has truly inscribed the local saints on their hearts. A brother encouraged the saints to experience and enjoy Christ in their daily lives, to offer up the riches of Christ in the meetings, and to participate in the spiritual warfare through prayer. Praise the Lord, in the students’ and young working ones’ meeting the next day, a seeker was baptized and saved.
In Rouen, a Bible seminar was held at the end of 2025 with the theme “The Divine Romance in the Bible,” and six new ones attended. Currently, there is a regular small group on Fridays, and they have begun reading the Gospel of John with the new ones. Six students are participating steadily, and during the week, the saints also have home meetings with students on campus.
The church in Toulouse had its first Lord’s table meeting on November 9. The saints testified eagerly; some shared about the wonderful work of God’s mighty salvation upon them, while others testified how they came to a church life that practices the truth and where brothers love one another. Before 2024, there was only a mother-and-daughter pair and a few saints living nearby in Toulouse. Through the spreading in May and September 2024, the Lord gained key local families, middle-aged ones, and young seekers. Over the past year, through the short-term coordination and shepherding of full-time saints from Spain and France, as well as saints from various countries, these seekers have become living and functioning members. Currently, four young full-time saints from France are coordinating there.
On November 16, the first Lord’s Day meeting was held in Lille. In the past, the local saints mostly went to the nearby church in Brussels for the Lord’s Day meeting. Since the Bible distribution in 2024, at least fifteen seeking young people have been gained. They have steady home meetings every week and continue to exercise their spirit and grow in life. In 2025, they began to have small group meetings, and now they have started having Lord’s Day meetings in Lille, gathering weekly to remember the Lord and worship the Father. It is hoped that they can begin having the Lord’s table meeting in the first half of 2026.
From November 22 to 23, saints visited three seeking families in Marseille, as well as a seeker who was contacted during the Bible distribution last year. After a year of online shepherding, he was baptized during this visit. Marseille is the largest port and the second-largest city in France. For many years, the saints from the church in Lyon have taken up the burden to visit and shepherd the families in Marseille. It is hoped that in the coming year the church in Lyon will be strengthened and will coordinate with the full-time saints to spread together, so that the Lord’s testimony can be raised up in that city.
The Lord has given the blessing of increase and nourishment to the churches in Paris and Nanterre. Not only are seekers continually being added to the churches, but the two churches together have more than thirty teenagers. Therefore, we gathered the parents and the saints who have a burden for shepherding the teenagers for fellowship. The brothers fellowshipped that the church should support and accompany the parents in shepherding their children, and that parents should take up the burden to shepherd according to God, so that the teenagers can recognize the church as their home. Supporting the parents and shepherding the teenagers will be a key focus for the churches in Paris and Nanterre in the coming year.
In 2025, more than three families immigrated to the city of Paris with a burden, and we praise the Lord for this. Over the past year, the saints in the city of Paris have been meeting weekly in homes, but now the number of people is large, and the space is no longer sufficient. Renting a venue in Paris is expensive, and the existing meeting halls are in other cities within the greater Paris metropolitan area, not in the city of Paris itself. Thus, there is still no suitable address to register with the government as the meeting place for the church in Paris. The church in Nanterre has a similar situation due to the increasing number of saints and children. There is an urgent need to find meeting halls in both places, so that the saints can have proper meetings and the children can receive proper shepherding.
We hope the saints will continue to pray for the following two points:
First, pray for the newly established churches in Nanterre and Toulouse, and ask the Lord to raise up His testimony in Lille, Rouen, and Marseille.
Second, pray for the shepherding of the teenagers in the church in Nanterre, and for the finding and purchasing of a meeting hall. Glory to God.
法国五座城市于2025年十一月连续四周有突破：在楠泰尔（Nanterre）、图卢兹（Toulouse）有召会第一次的擘饼聚会。在里尔（Lille）有第一次的主日聚会、在鲁昂（Rouen）也举办了一场圣经讲座，预计2026年成立召会，并有圣徒们前往访问在马赛（Marseille）的寻求者，盼望后年在马赛能建立召会。
二〇一七年后法国一直维持五处召会，二〇二一年一群法国圣徒们开始为着主在法语国家能有所突破周周祷告，二〇二四年奥运期间全球圣徒借着祷告、财务奉献、配搭发送圣经一同有分，使得法语国家青年人的心变得敞开，且许多基督徒渴慕脱离宗教而有实际的召会生活。经过一年多的开展和牧养，升天的基督在法国建立了两座金灯台。
2025年十一月一日在楠泰尔附近的城市举办了小型特会，总题是‘对真理绝对’，交通到我们必须对现有的真理、最高的真理和主观的真理绝对。十一月二日楠泰尔召会成立聚集，有八个家见证，有许多是在巴黎得救、成家后搬到西边的楠泰尔及周围的城市。
有位新人见证是神的怜悯使他遇见圣徒们，并生在神的家中。也有许多曾配搭开展及短期牧养的圣徒一同有分本次聚集，见证主真是将当地圣徒书写在心上。弟兄勉励圣徒们在日常生活中经历并享受基督，在聚集中能将基督的富余献上，并借着祷告有分属灵争战。赞美主，在隔天的学生及青职聚会中，有一位寻求者受浸得救。
而在鲁昂，2025年底举办了一场圣经讲座，主题是‘圣经中的神圣罗曼史’，有六位新人前来。目前当地周五固定有小排，开始陪新人读约翰福音，六位学生稳定参与，平时圣徒们也在校园中与学生有家聚会。
图卢兹召会则于十一月九日有第一次擘饼聚会，圣徒们踊跃见证，有圣徒分享神大能的救恩在他们身上的奇妙作为，也有圣徒们见证他们如何遇见实行真理、弟兄相爱的召会生活。图卢兹至2024年以前仅有一对母女及几位住在邻近的圣徒，借着2024年五月和九月两次的开展，主得着了当地关键的家、中壮及青年寻求者，这一年来借着西班牙和法国全时间圣徒，以及各国来的圣徒短期配搭牧养，使这些寻求者成为活而尽功用的肢体。目前法国有四位年轻的全时间圣徒在该地配搭。
十一月十六日在里尔有了第一次的主日聚会。已过当地圣徒多是去到邻近的布鲁塞尔主日聚会，2024年发送圣经至今，得着了至少十五位寻求的青年人，周周稳定家聚会，持续操练灵并在生命上不断长大。2025年开始有了排聚集，如今开始在里尔主日聚会，周周聚集一同记念主并敬拜父，盼望2026年上半年能开始擘饼聚会。
十一月二十二至二十三日，圣徒们前往访问在马赛的三个寻求的家，及一位是去年发送圣经接触到的寻求者，经过一年在线牧养后于此次访问中受浸。马赛是法国的第一大港口、第二大城市，多年来里昂召会的圣徒拿起负担访问牧养在马赛的家，盼望在要来地一年里昂召会得着加强，并与全时间圣徒们配搭一同开展，在该地能兴起主的见证。
主将繁增乳养的福赐给巴黎召会及楠泰尔召会，不只将寻求者不断加给召会，两个召会加起来有超过三十位青少年。因此，我们召集家长及有负担牧养青少年的圣徒们交通。弟兄们交通，召会应扶持并陪伴家长牧养儿女，而家长应当拿起负担照着神牧养，使青少年能认定召会是他们的家。扶持家长并牧养青少年，将是要来一年巴黎召会及楠泰爾召会的重点方向。
2025年有三个以上的家带着负担移民至巴黎市，我们为此赞美主。已过一年，巴黎市区的圣徒们周周在家中聚集，如今人数众多，空间已不敷使用。在巴黎市租用场地费用高，且现有的会所是在大巴黎都会区其他城市而非在巴黎市，因此仍没有合适向政府登记作为巴黎召会聚会场地的地址。楠泰尔召会因圣徒及儿童日渐增多，也有类似情况。目前急需在两地寻得会所，使圣徒们能有合适的聚集、儿童能得到合适的牧养。
盼望圣徒持续为以下两点代祷：
第一，为已成立的楠泰尔及图卢兹召会祷告，并求主兴起在里尔、鲁昂、马赛的见证。
第二，为楠泰尔召会青少年的牧养，及寻得并购置会所祷告。荣耀归神。
