The 50th – a French speaking church – opened this week.
Rt Rev Ric Thorpe is the bishop responsible for church planting in London.
Speaking to Premier’s News Hour, he said: “There’s a lot of work to do. We need to be praying hard for new opportunities and new people to be leading them to new groups of people that want to discover the Christian faith.”
St Barnabas Kensington launched the 50th new worshipping community with French Connect – a weekly service in French to reach out to the hundreds of thousands of French-speaking people living in West London.
Led by the curate of St Barnabas, Rev Jean-Luc Sergent and his wife Ginie – who are both from Paris – French Connect provides a space to welcome and to bring together people from the French community.
Speaking at the launch event, the Bishop of Islington, the Rt Rev Ric Thorpe said: “We are seeing new services for new people starting across the capital, from the reopening of closed churches to the creation of new churches on estates or in schools and cafes.
“Wherever people are gathering, we want to provide a space where they can come and find out about faith in Christ. I’d love to encourage you to keep growing, reaching more and more French people with the good news of Jesus.”
Adding his congratulations, the Bishop of Kensington, the Rt Rev Bishop Graham, said: “I…
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