Collection 667 Oral History Interviews with Johanna Defoy
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Johanna Defoy (1981- ), French missionary and church planter working in France from 2009 to 2011. Topics discussed include Defoy’s early life in France, parents, spiritual interest, conversion and growing faith, evangelism experiences, church involvement, professional experience, influence of a woman missionary, Christian university group and outreach, Groupes Bibliques Universitaires or GBU Christian university group (International Fellowship of Evangelical Students, IFES-related), her husband Frederic, church planting ministry in Chamonix and Annecy, work with International Teams France and survey trips to Croatia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, and Tunisia, comparison of evangelical churches in France and the U.S., attending Wheaton College Graduate School; desire to address social issues. The time period covered by the interviews is 1981-2011.
Johanna Defoy was interviewed by Robert Shuster on November 9 and 16, 2011, in the offices of the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center Archives.
Dates
- 2011
Creator
- Defoy, Johanna. (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
There are no access restrictions on the materials in this collection.
Conditions Governing Use
The copyright to the sound recordings in this collection is held by the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center Archives.
Biographical Information
Full name: Johanna Defoy-Brussieux
Birth: April 15, 1981 in Annemasse in the French Alps
Family:
Parents: Bernard and Veronique
Siblings: None
Marital Status: Married to Frederic, 2006
Children: Emma, Mathis
Conversion: 1996 (age 15)
Education
1999 - Lycée La Versoie (high school), Sciences
2001 - Universite de Savoie, Chambéry, degree in Psychology
2006 - Faculté de Médecine Paris, degree in Speech Therapy
2013 - Wheaton College Graduate School, MA in Evangelism and Leadership
Career
2003-2004 - Led and evangelism effort in Chamonix, France, while a student
2009-2011 - Church planting near Annecy, France, in affiliation with Assemblée Biblique du Bassin Annécien (ABBA)
2010-2011 - Project leader with International Teams France
Extent
2 Sound Recordings
204 Minutes
Language of Materials
English
Accruals and Additions
The materials in this collection were given to the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center Archives by Johanna Defoy in November 2011.
Accession: 11-62, 11-66
June 4, 2021
Paul Ericksen
- Annecy (France)
- Assemblée Biblique du Bassin Annécien (ABBA)
- Chamonix (France)
- Christian life.
- Church and social problems -- France.
- Church and state -- France.
- Church development, New -- France.
- Church work with students -- France.
- Church work with youth -- France.
- College students -- France -- Religious life.
- Conversion -- Personal narratives. -- Christianity.
- Defoy, Frederic.
- Evangelicalism -- France.
- Evangelistic work -- France.
- Groupes Bibliques Universitaires (France)
- Indigenous church administration -- France.
- International Justice Mission.
- International Teams (Organization)
- Missions -- Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Missions -- Croatia.
- Missions -- Tunisia.
- Niles, Steve.
- Piper, John, 1946-
- Short-term missions.
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Graduate school.
- Wheaton College (Ill.). Billy Graham Scholarship Program.
- Women -- Religious life.
- Women missionaries.
- Youth -- France -- Conversion to Christianity.
- Youth -- Religious life.
Creator
- Defoy, Johanna. (Person)
- Title
- Collection 667 Oral History Interviews with Johanna Defoy
- Author
- Bob Shuster
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Roman Script
Repository Details
Part of the Evangelism & Missions Archives Repository