Dickson, Brad & Catherine

The Dicksons are doing Church planting and leadership training in the South of France. Catherine is a family counselor and a speaker for ladies groups. She is also concentrated on friendship evangelism. Together, and with teams the Lord has provided, they have participated in five Church plants in the South East of France. They have also launched a student drop-in centre in Aix en Provence. The drop-in centre also serves as a training centre for a Church planters training programme they have put in place in collaboration with French colleagues. Brad also teaches in a Bible School in Geneva, Switzerland. They are presently planting an International Church in Manosque, France.

Commending Church

Fairhaven Bible Chapel, Saskatoon SK and Charleswood Community Church, Winnipeg, MB

Country

France

Province From

Saskatchewan

PRAYER ITEMS

18

Aug 2025

Church Autonomy

We have been working in Manosque for four years now and rejoice at the fact that God has planted a young Church here. We ask prayer now for gradual transfer…
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25

Aug 2022

A family camp

We taught about Christian marriage and parenting at a family camp. A few of those present were not yet believers. They all seemed very happy and want to come back.…
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16

Dec 2021

A big part of our ministry

Moving to Manosque has been a huge change for us. We have joined local hiking and fitness clubs. These and other connections to the community have enabled us to meet…
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2

Sep 2021

Each one is a miracle

We’ve moved to a small city of about 25,000 people. Our goal is to plant a new church. Please pray with us as we continue to study the area, discern…
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20

May 2021

Key people

We are about to move to a new location. Please pray for our church in Aix-en-Provence and the elders we are leaving there. We are asking the Lord to send…
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17

Dec 2020

The parable of the sower

One aspect of our ministry that brings great joy is when we can read the Gospel with people who have never heard it before. This has been our privilege recently…
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12

Nov 2020

Next summer

About one thousand scientists work near the city where we plan to move next summer. Their workplace is touted as the biggest scientific project in the world. They are among…
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24

Sep 2020

Diligent and wise

This year will be our last one serving in this city before we go on to a new church planting project in Manosque. Our objective until then will be to…
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28

May 2020

Manosque

There is a need for church plant in Manosque, a city of about 60000 people with only one evangelical church. We prayed and the Lord showed us that He wants…
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6

Feb 2020

We race against the clock

Students were packed in at our last event with a free meal and live French Music. Not many come for our regular weekly event where we read the Bible, but…
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9

Jan 2020

Crying out to God for more conversions

One of our goals in coming to the South was to plant a new church. Our fellowship has made some progress this year, with a group of young French leaders…
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10

Oct 2019

A week of intensive evangelism

A group of young people joined us for a week of intensive evangelism on the university campus. A good number of students showed up for our concerts. As a result,…
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15

Aug 2019

A good evangelist

We had the privilege of leading a foreign student to Christ last year. She turned out to be a good evangelist, inviting many friends to come and hear the Gospel.…
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7

Mar 2019

Cultural and linguistic barriers

Please pray for an outreach we have started to a group of foreigners in a city about 40 minutes from where we are. Five families have started attending. The cultural…
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20

Dec 2018

So appreciative

We see our foreign students once a week for a meal plus study, then once a month for an outing. They are so appreciative of the time we invest in…
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6

Sep 2018

Divorce support group

Catherine has a burden for people having gone through divorce. She started a support group with a few members last year that went well. It is a good opportunity to…
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12

Apr 2018

Young church planters

One of our goals in moving to this region is to facilitate a church planting movement through apprenticeship. Our first small group is now finishing their training and have begun…
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22

Feb 2018

Returning

We are excited about the new ministry to Foreign Students. One student expressed concern about returning to her country, to an environment where she will be persecuted now that she…
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30

Nov 2017

First visible fruit

We have seen conversions in Aix en Provence, but we have just witnessed our first conversion linked to our new international students’ ministry. This is the first visible fruit of…
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18

Oct 2017

Ministry to international students

We are in our new building! We launched a ministry to international students wanting to perfect their French. We offer a meal, a discussion group, then a reading from the…
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31

Aug 2017

Mini Bible school

While recently in Belgium we conducted a mini Bible School. It is one week of intensive classes for young people between the ages of 18 and 30. It is a…
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12

Apr 2017

Looking forward to invite them in

We have started renovating our new building. One of the joys is realizing the number of students that actually do stroll by every day, stopping to eat lunch on our…
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1

Mar 2017

Doors

Aix-en-Provence, where we live, has many beautiful doors. We don’t usually think about their importance. People are either in or out. Our job is to show them the way. Catherine…
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14

Dec 2016

Student outreach growing

A group of Christian students meets weekly for a meal and Bible Study. Every week a few non-Christian students come, curious to know why their friends would want to read…
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3

Nov 2016

Evangelistic blitz

We had a one-week evangelistic blitz on the campus. We distributed 15,000 invitations, served free coffee, and witnessed in the streets. Since then, about 17 students have consistently attended our…
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28

Sep 2016

Blitz

We are running an intensive week of evangelism on the university campus starting Monday 25 September. A team of seven young people has come and joined our regular team. They…
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15

Sep 2016

Similar miracle

Before the summer we asked prayer for a financial need of $100,000 for us to be able to go ahead with the purchase of the building for our training centre…
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15

Sep 2016

Bold witnesses

We are still in the midst of terrorist attacks in France. Until now, they concentrated on Paris, but this summer 85 people were killed in Nice. The question we ask…
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6

Jul 2016

Marriage and family

For many years now we have been teaching a course on marriage and family in a camp setting. It is our miracle camp! We see couples reconciled, parents encouraged. This…
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OPPORTUNITIES