Hello! Why France?

LET’S START AT THE BEGINNING

When David was 9 years old he was reading the Wall Street Journal (newspaper) with his grandfather when he asked his granfather. “Are you investing international with your money Grandpa?” His grandfather looked at him puzzled and said, “No, I do not invest internationally.” David left his grandfather and walked down the hallway of his grandfathers house. He stopped in the middle of the hallway all by himself and said out loud, “What does the word international mean?” He did not know what the word meant.

Years later he would travel around the world as a United States and World Champion BMX Freestyle Rider and then became a top mens fashion model on his way to moving to Milan, Italy. As he was on his way to move to Milan and represent a top international mens modeling agency he met Jesus Christ. David gave his life to Jesus. Jesus Christ has changed his life.

The word international continued when David started following Jesus. He has prayed and still continues to pray for many nations around the world. You could say David’s has a middle name, “international”.

THE CALL OF GOD - WHY FRANCE?

In 1985, David stepped off the plane at Charles De Gaulle Airport in Paris, France. It was his first trip abroad as BMX United States and World Champion. He was heading to central France to appear on a live television show where he would ride his bike and perform tricks in front of the entire French nation. As he stepped off the plane, David walked down the long gangway into the Charles De Gaulle terminal. At the end of the bridge, the glass doors opened and he entered the airport terminal, and then something supernatural happened.

At that moment, David remembers feeling as if a heavy coin had been placed in his heart. He was speechless and wondered what had happened to him. It was then that he fell in love with France and its people. It wasn't until 1990, when David gave his life to Jesus Christ, that everything began to make sense. He knew then that God had entrusted him with the mission to pray and believe in God so that a movement of God would touch the French people and nation.

After many years of prayer, David and Carol Joy moved to France in 2024, knowing that it was time to move forward with what God had placed on their hearts to do in France.

FRANCE NEEDS JESUS - 2% OF THE POPULATION DOES NOT KNOW JESUS, THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE

France is a country of over 77 million people. Recent studies in France show that Christianity has been in steady decline since the 1980s. In 2021, a French poll showed that over 50% of French citizens do not believe there is a God or that He exists. Those who identify as Catholic have dropped from 81% in 1986 to 47% in 2020. Those who say they have been born again are only 1%. This is a huge challenge.

WHAT WE CAN SEE IN FRANCE

We see international churches based in France, filled with people of all ages, backgrounds, cultures, languages, and nations.

These churches will network together to teach the Word of God and move with the Holy Spirit.

We see these churches sending missionaries from France to all the nations of the world.

These churches will look different from the churches most people see today. They will be modern, mobile, and always moving with God in what He wants to do on earth in this generation and in generations to come.

We see God at work in these churches, touching the French nation and the whole world for His glory.

OUR SCRIPTURE

Psalms 67:1-7 (NIV)

1 O God, in your mercy, bless us; let your face shine on us.

2 Send us out into the world with the good news of your power and your eternal plan for all mankind. 3 Let all the peoples of the earth praise the Lord! 4 Let the nations rejoice and sing for joy, for you are their King, and you will judge the peoples with equity. 5 Praise God, O world! Let all the peoples of the earth give thanks to you. 6-7 For the earth has yielded its harvest. God, even our own God, will bless us. And the peoples of the farthest lands will worship him.

PROPHECIES OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

"And as I watched this morning, I saw. I saw movement. I saw a pathway. A going did I see. Do you understand me? Good. And so all the details, and the parts, and the pieces. My God has made available to you everything that is necessary and favor as well. There is a waiting time beside you. Within you. But God is opening the way for you. And I see nations written on you. Is that true? And so it shall be. And you shall go. And everything you need, and more. Because God has asked that it be so." - Reverend Mary Frances Varallo

“It's a different kind of anointing, a different kind of anointing. It will lift you up so fast, so fast and so high that your head will spin!” - Reverend Cindy Duvall - Glory of Shekinah

"A tent-preaching anointing on this man. A fiery tent-preaching anointing. I'm not saying you'll have a tent, but a tent preaching the anointing... whew...“ - Reverend Joseph Morris

”The anointing of R.W. Schambach (evangelist), the anointing of preaching Schambach (evangelist), the anointing to preach upon you Carol Joy... whoo...“ - Reverend Joseph Morris

”When the time comes, says the Spirit of God, there is a place and a people, and it will be a strong word, it will be a strong work, and it will remain, because there is a stability that I have put in you...“ - Pastor Joseph Rodriguez

”I asked God what kind of man you were. He said you were a PIONEER.“ - Dick Locke

”Sooner than you think. It's going to happen sooner than you think. Yes, what's burning like a forest fire inside, it's going to happen sooner than you think. And it's not going to happen the way you think. It's going to be better." - Pastor Mark Brazee

Now in Antioch there were prophets and teachers, beginning with Barnabas and Saul, while they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” And it is also tonight, as I speak to you by the Spirit, that it is time to go out into what I have prepared for you and called you to do... so now is the time for you to hurry into this or move forward into what I have prepared for you. The work, the work I have prepared for you... Hallelujah, for the gifts and the callings of God are irrevocable, what God says and what God gives, He never changes His mind, He does not change His mind, He has not changed His mind about you, He has not changed His mind about what He has said, He has not changed, He has not taken it back, so what He has told you, what you know in your heart, is what He wants you to do, He wants you to act, and you know it, and you know it, and when you do it, the anointing increases and comes, Hallelujah, Thank you Lord for that, Thank you Lord Jesus. Amen, Amen, Hallelujah, Thank you Jesus. - Reverend Gary Crowl