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Annual Bible Exhibition at Houlgate
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.
The 2012 Expo-Bible at Houlgate will be open from Thursday, August 2nd
through to Wednesday, August 22nd.
For more information about the exhibition, or if you want to find out about joining this year's team, visit our Expo-Bible 2012 page.
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.
Expo-Bible: Further Information
Expo-Bible 2011 Video Overview
Watch a video overview of the Expo-Bible (Bible Exhibition) at Houlgate Evangelical Church in Normandy held during the summer of 2011.
Watch the video overview of Expo-Bible
Houlgate 2011
Expo-Bible 2011 Photo Gallery
Visit the gallery of photos from the 2011 Expo-Bible (Bible Exhibition) at Houlgate Evangelical Church in Normandy
Visit the photo gallery of Expo-Bible
Houlgate 2011
Expo-Bible 2010 Video Overview
Watch a video overview of the Bible Exhibition (Expo-Bible) at Houlgate Evangelical Church in Normandy
Expo-Bible 2010 Photo Gallery
Visit the gallery of photos from the 2010 Expo-Bible (Bible Exhibition) at Houlgate Evangelical Church in Normandy
Expo-Bible 2009 Report
Read our report
on the Expo-Bible held at Houlgate during the summer of 2009
Information on Previous Expo-Bibles
You can find out about our Expo-Bible ministry from the following pages:
- Expo-Bible 2011 at Houlgate
- Expo-Bible 2010 at Houlgate
- Expo-Bible 2009 at Houlgate
- Expo-Bible 2008 at Houlgate
Doing the Tour
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.
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.