David Brown

David Brown resides in Paris with his wife Mary.

Although he now has French nationality, he was born in the UK and read French at Bristol University. It was at that time that he became a committed Christian.

He moved to France in his twenties and joined a French-based church planting organisation, France-Mission (now called Perspectives). Within this denomination he planted three churches before pastoring a church in central Paris which he led through a process of revitalisation.

That experience opened his eyes to the tremendous need for many churches to see new life emerge in their midst. This is partly because of their decline in numbers, but more importantly, it stems from the need to demonstrate the plausibility of the Gospel in today’s secular societies.

Since 2018, he has headed up the Church Revitalisation Network at the European Leadership Forum (ELF). It was in this context that he hammered out, with other church leaders, an approach to revitalisation which is adapted to the European church situation. He wrote the book Reconnect your Church to present this vision of a healthy church and its implementation. Revitalisation is possible!

In summary, It involves working simultaneously on three areas

- The social area - loving others

- The societal area - understanding our contemporary culture

- The spiritual area - enabling our church gatherings to help us to love God and understand today’s world. In other words these meetings can both motivate us and train us to love the people around us and share the gospel with them in meaningful ways.

David teaches church revitalisation at the Geneva Bible Institute and at the Nogent Bible Institute (in Paris). He has spoken at church and denominational gatherings all over Europe and mentored many church leaders as they launch revitalisation initiatives in their churches.