France: Lyons encourages
Some 60 conference participants gathered
again
for
three days
in April
in Lyons,
France
for
this year’s Colloque Biblique
Francophone.
Participants came from all over France and
from
French-speaking
Belgium
and
Switzerland; they profited from a variety of bib-lically-faithful ministry from five main speakers.
Douglas Millar, 1927-2012
Douglas Millar died on February 26, aged 84, following a stroke. Douglas, together with his wife Muriel, served a number of Free Church congregations in England over a period of 40 years.
Douglas was converted through the witness of a friend at school, and subsequently trained for ministry at London Bible College. Here he was one of the many young men who came under the influence of Dr. Ernest Kevan, the first principal of the college, who helped Douglas’s understanding of the doctrines of grace, and did much to influence his subsequent ministry. In 1954 he married Muriel (Parker), and began his ministry in East London. He was then called to a pioneering work: Arnold Road Evangelical Church in Nottingham. Douglas had a heart for people and for gospel work, including open-air preaching, and ministry to children from the local estate. He later served at churches in the Bristol area, and Wolverhampton. His clear and faithful preaching ministry was much appreciated.