Faculté Jean Calvin Video Presentation
Pierre Berthoud, Professor Emeritus
Please take 7 minutes out of your day to watch this video presentation. It will leave you better informed about the people, place, and raison d'être of Faculté Jean Calvin, the Reformed Seminary in Aix-en-Provence, France. This version of the video is translated throughout using voice-over or text, as in the above image of Pierre Berthoud commenting on the Word of God. (Note that the intro briefly features some lively music. So please be patient, if not to your taste. The music that follows is sublime.)
If not already a regular contributor to The Huguenot Fellowship, please consider adding that to your 2017 New Year's resolutions.
Supporting the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the French-speaking world.
Joël Favre
Do Not Stay Silent
In 2017, the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation,
please pray with the Faculté Jean Calvin for...
the return to the Word of God
the reformation of hearts
the vocation of new pastors
exam week (January 9-13), and
following month of practical training.
"Minuit, Chrétiens"
Kim Tran, Director of Faculté Jean Calvin, is a talented singer and musician, as well as, administrator. He graciously provided a link to a YouTube video (click here) of his moving performance of "Minuit, Chrétiens" ("O Holy Night").
Take note that our English version of this classic Christmas carol is somewhat different than a literal translation of the French lyrics, which begin...
Midnight, Christians, is the solemn hour,
When God as man descended unto us
To erase the stain of original sin
And to end the wrath of His Father.
The entire world thrills with hope
On this night that gives it a Savior.
Using the Wikipedia article "O Holy Night" (click here), you may be interested to follow-along and to compare the French lyrics, based on a poem by wine merchant and poet Placide Cappeau (love that name); a literal English translation; and the more familiar version by Unitarian minister John Sullivan Dwight.
May we hear and truly take to heart the words...
People, stand up! Sing of your deliverance,
Christmas, Christmas, sing of the Redeemer!
Pierre-Sovann Chauny
In coming to teach Christian Dogmatics (i.e. the doctrines taught in the Bible) at the Faculté Jean Calvin I fully identify with its clear vision of teaching Reformed Theology in faithfulness and obedience to the God-given Word. I deeply appreciate the Reformed approach which gives due credit to the theological input of John Calvin and all his spiritual and theological heirs over the last five centuries, right down to … Paul Wells!
Micaël Razzano
Marc and Aline Mailloux
I was born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island and raised in a Roman Catholic milieu. I rejected the Roman traditions and began searching for the Truth in life when I was sixteen. After graduation from high school in 1971, I spent the summer hitchhiking around Western Europe and met two people who were to influence him greatly; Francis Schaeffer and Timothy Leary.