Mission to the World (MTW)

Italy
Missionaries: Perry & Betty Huesmann (Samuel & David)
Email: phuesmann@fastwebnet.it

It is with great delight that we write a brief description of our work in Italy with Mission to the World. We hope it will be informative for you, and welcome any questions with regard to our work here.

We are called to Italy to work with an existing reformed movement that is deeply imbedded within the Roman Catholic culture. Although we are here as “outsiders”, we have from the beginning chosen not to take a traditional outsider approach in a country whose Roman Catholic religious history dates back “officially” to 60 AD. Our outsider presence is at times a conflictual one, and often takes the form of bringing people to a point of crisis as they reflect about their own lives and culture so that the multi-faceted splendour of the Gospel may be presented as a saving message. We are privileged to watch the Spirit of God working in many ways throughout the nation, and are comforted to know that God is sovereign over all the nations.

France
Missionaries: Petrie & Ruth Mitchell
Phone: 3-0-491-75-09-55
Email: pierremitchell@wanadoo.fr

In 1990 the Lord led the Mitchells to join the Mission to the World church-planting ream in Marseille.  Pete is currently serving as team leader for the mission team and co-pastor of the fledgling church located on the south side of this cosmopolitan city.

SE France team
Strategic plan 2009

Purpose Statement:
The purpose of the Southeast France Church Planting Team is to glorify God by the creation of reformed and evangelical churches among the unreached French population in Southeast France, and the strengthening of such existing churches in Southeast France.

Vision Statement:
Our vision is to facilitate a church planting movement in Southeast France.  This means that the doctrines of grace will be so evident in our lives and in the life of the Church, that French believers will be motivated to become equipped and eager to be engaged in evangelism, discipleship and church planting.  As a result, the churches in which we work will become the engine which drives a similar movement in other reformed, evangelical churches.  By the grace of God and intervention of the Holy Spirit, there will be in Southeast France by 2015, three to five new churches (ones which did not exist in 2004) which meet the following criteria:
a.  a minimum of sixty people in each church
b.  one French pastor, and three lay leaders in each church
c.  each church will support (home and foreign) missions financially and through prayer.