Normandy Vision UK Trust

A Christian Mission working in Normandy, France

Expo-Bible (Bible Exhibition) Ministry

Annual Exhibition

An exhibition that focuses on the Bible and its message and that reaches many hundreds of people during the three weeks we are able to hold it each year.

Expo-Bible advertising

The aim of the Expo-Bible (Bible Exhibition) that we hold each year is to reach as effectively many people as we can with the message of the Bible in a way that is culturally acceptable in France but also in a way that has a big impact on those who visit our exhibition.

For the second successive year, in the summer of 2009 we held a Bible Exhibition (Expo-Bible in French) in the Evangelical Church that is literally on the sea front at the popular holiday resort of Houlgate. In 2008 we reached around 650 people in about 20 days of opening. This year there were about 600 visitors. As one French pastor commented to us, it would be very difficult to find another way to so effectively reach such a large number of people in France with the message of the Bible, and thus introduce them to the Gospel and to the Lord Jesus Christ.

The exhibition takes visitors through the Bible, its history, its message, its contents. At the heart of the exhibition is the message of the Gospel, of the work of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross to save sinners. The exhibition concludes with testimonies from those who have found new life in Christ, and recommendations for reading the Bible yourself to find out more.

Continued in next column

Expo-Bible 2009 Report

Read reportRead our report on the Expo-Bible held at Houlgate during the summer of 2009

Information on Expo-Bibles

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Information

Doing the Tour

Expo-Bible showing visitors

Some visitors take up to an hour to go round the exhibition, reading everything very carefully. Many of these are not Christians, and by the time they have completed the tour they want to take some of the free Christian literature and Gospels that are available, or to buy a Bible or other Christian book to help them understand and learn about the Bible.

We sold around 40 Bibles this year, most to people who had never read or owned a Bible before. In addition, several hundred tracts and Gospels were taken by visitors. Visitors are free to choose the literature as they wish, and so the quantities taken reflect a true interest on the part of visitors to find out more.

Expo-Bible showing bookstall

There is much more that we would like to be able to do in developing this ministry and in providing more in the way of follow-up materials.We would like to be able to associate other outreach events with the exhibition. During 2009, for example, we held two evening lectures about the Bible: “How the Bible has come down to us today”, and “Archaeology and the Bible”.We would also like to be able to hold the Bible Exhibition in other locations in Normandy.