After 17 years of church planting in Quebec, Canada, we are working in the Cayenne region of French Guiana, South America. We are church-planting, which involves evangelism, discipleship, training of national leadership, children’s and teens’ ministries, French publishing ministry for tracts, and discipleship materials.
Ray and Jennifer Teachout
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Appointment
04-16-01
Field Info
French Guiana is a very multi-ethnic overseas department of France. The area was by default Catholic, as a French colony, and there is still a strong vestige of Catholicism left over of that era. Jehovah's Witness, Seventh-Day adventist and many various Charismatic/pentecostal church add much to the confusion that is there. Evangelical churches are weak and from best we can tell, there is only one Independant Fundamental Baptist Church of any stripe in one of the smaller cities. Many Amerindian villages and towns have no gospel witness whatsoever. No other independant Baptist missionary yet are currently on this field. People are open, but there is much confusion due to Jehovah's witness, Charismatics, Adventists, Catholics, etc. Many areas have no form of any witness there and we will be doing some work starting with one Indian village, Lord willing, Camopi.
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French Guiana
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