Marc Mailloux: God Still Loves The French - Adventures of a Missionary to France
God Still Loves The French
Adventures of a Missionary to France
Marc Mailloux
- Pages:
- 220
- Dimensions:
- 6X9
- Category:
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RELIGION - Christian General
- Type:
- Paperback
- ISBN:
- 1600342841
- Price:
- 15.99
Book Summary
God Still Loves the French is one man's story of his life and vocation for sharing the gospel with the often misunderstood people of the land of Calvin. It is a collection of autobiographical anecdotes accumulated during twenty plus years in France, first as a student, then as a missionary. Wrestling with matters like the inscrutable nature of calling and the arcane complexities of fund-raising, this personal testimony spans the events of 1973 to 1997. From Paris to Provence, from the classrooms of the Sorbonne to the cafes of Paris, from roads of rural France to life at a French seminary, the narrative contains reflections on customs and politics and spirituality garnered by this servant of the Great Commission in pursuit of the French soul for Christ.
Author Profile
Marc was born in 1953 in a French-Canadian Roman Catholic milieu in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. He began searching for the meaning of life when he was around sixteen. After getting involved in hallucinogenic drugs and Oriental mysticism at Georgetown University in 1972, he hitchhiked across Europe and stumbled on Francis Schaeffer’s l’Abri Fellowship in Switzerland where his Oriental convictions were shaken. He continued on to India where, in April of 1973 in Benares, the Lord dragged him into the Kingdom. His search for truth is the subject of his first book, Discovery on the Katmandu Trail (1983). Marc settled in France in 1973 where, after a year of preliminary language study in Paris, he enrolled at the Reformed Seminary in Aix-en-Provence, there meeting his wife Aline. They were married in March of 1978 and have been blessed with three children, Calix (1980), Justin (1982), and Anaïs (1984).
