France needs pastors, leaders, and churches equipped to faithfully live and proclaim the Gospel in a post-Christian culture. Through a unique partnership between the EPC and UNEPREF, we are investing in the next generation of Christian leaders, strengthening churches, and helping congregations engage their communities with the Gospel.
France is a challenging mission context. The question is not simply how to maintain the churches we have.
UNEPREF brings together 46 churches across France. Together with the EPC, we have an opportunity to invest in pastors, emerging leaders, church health, and Gospel-centred mission. The EPC–UNEPREF partnership was established specifically to strengthen church health, develop leaders, and advance Gospel-centred multiplication.
This is an opportunity to invest in people — not simply programs.
Why France?
The Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC) and UNEPREF are walking together in a strategic partnership to strengthen the Church in France.
This is not a one-way relationship. It is a partnership built on prayer, encouragement, leadership development, church health, mission, and multiplication. Both churches give and receive for the strengthening of Christ's Church.
We believe God is opening a door for us to walk through together.
Learn About the Partnership
Through People of the Covenant, emerging French Christian men and women receive world-class theological teaching, ministry leadership, encouragement, and opportunities to grow in their calling. Your investment helps create an annual environment where the next generation can be formed and encouraged.
Through scholarships at Jean Calvin Seminary in Aix-en-Provence, we are helping remove financial barriers for men and women preparing for pastoral ministry.
Through church-health training and coaching, pastors, elders, and deacons are being equipped to lead healthy, Gospel-centred churches. The MOA establishes measurable goals for church-health assessment, action planning, and ongoing coaching across UNEPREF churches.
Learn more →Healthy churches are called to be missional churches. We are helping churches engage their cities and neighbourhoods through missional coaching, new initiatives, and EPC–UNEPREF Sister Church Partnerships.
Don't figure it out alone — here are three simple steps.
Pray for the next generation of the Church in France — for pastors, seminary students, emerging leaders, elders, church planters, and churches seeking to engage their communities with the Gospel.
Pray with usBuild a relationship with the Church in France. Churches can develop an EPC–UNEPREF Sister Church Partnership: exchange leaders, pray together, share resources, and learn from one another.
Become a partnerPut resources behind the next generation. Foundations, businesses, churches, and individuals can invest in pastoral scholarships, leadership development, church health, and missional initiatives.
Invest nowThese targets come from the established EPC–UNEPREF Memorandum of Agreement.
Emerging leaders reached through People of the Covenant over three years.
Pastoral scholarship opportunities over three years.
UNEPREF churches within the national network.
Target for UNEPREF churches completing a baseline church-health assessment by the end of 2027.
Target for participating churches implementing a 1–2 year health plan by May 2028.
EPC–UNEPREF Sister Church Partnerships targeted by the end of 2026.
Missional pilot project launched in 2028.
Behind every number is a person, a pastor, a church. Their stories are coming soon.
God is raising up men and women who will serve His Church, proclaim the Gospel, plant churches, strengthen congregations, and engage their communities.
Will you be part of what God is doing?