Why Elan ?
As a sending agency, you want to set your new missionaries up for success. Elan wants to help.
Working closely with sending agencies and French partners, Elan offers a three-year program that provides supplementary structure and support for missionaries who are transitioning to the field in France. Your agency will continue to direct and supervise your missionaries’ endeavours, while Elan will complement those efforts by providing spiritual formation, mentoring, and coaching during the adaptation period.
Become a member
As a member of Elan your agency will help to shape our program. We work closely with members to understand their vision and mission, to tailor our program to their missionaries’ needs, and to develop partnerships with French ministries.
Member agencies will receive a quarterly newsletter with information about our program and the association.
Agency Membership fees are 100€ annually.
As a French person who has worked with several cross-cultural evangelistic ministries in France, I’ve realized that those from other cultures have a completely different way of thinking and doing. I have often been frustrated by cultural misunderstandings in the heat of the moment, creating problems while we were trying to do ministry. This was never the time or place to confront these issues, but when is? With ELAN, I see the possibility of anticipating the challenges associated with our cultural differences. Elan will help the French Church to better integrate foreign missionaries while helping foreign missionaries to better integrate into the Christian world in France. We need everyone in this beautiful work that Jesus has given us to do, so that together we can reach France for Jesus Christ.
Timothée Pomier, Pastor and church planter
If you would like more information or if you’d like for your agency to become a member of Elan, please fill out the Agency Contact Form, and we will contact you.