CARADOC JONES
A forgotten missionary
By Noel Gibbard
Bryntirion Press. 176 pages. £10.00
ISBN 978-1-904845-53-9
(Available from the Christian Bookshop, Bryntirion, Bridgend, CF31 4DX, 01656 665912, bridgendbookshop@emw.org.uk).
Caradoc Jones ministered in one small town in Brittany, a fishing port by the name of Paimpol, between 1920 and 1967; in other words from the age of 45 until 18 months before his death.
The Baptist church he built up in that place is today part of the Baptist Federation of France and continues to bear witness to the gospel. The narrative starts with his childhood in Clwyd, takes in the Welsh Revival, Caradoc’s time at Spurgeon’s College, London, and his pastorate in Cardiff before he left for France with a strong sense of personal call. At the outbreak of the second world war, Caradoc refused to leave Paimpol, and he ended up in an internment camp in Vittel in the east of France. His continuing ministry there is vividly recounted.
