Missionaries France Matt and Cristina Price Biography

PRESENT MINISTRY
Matt and Cristina Price returned to the France on March 18, to begin their second term of service. They will work with teammates Tim and Di Keener to help plant a church in St. Herblain. They will also be working in youth in children's ministries.

The Prices were appointed as career missionaries in the December 2002 session of the Board of Foreign Missions. They left for Albertville, France, in May 2005. After a year of language and cultural acquisition they relocated to Nantes, where they continued there studies and participated in ministry in the Nantes FWB Church.

CONVERSION
Matt’s father led him to the Lord at the age of seven. Matt was baptized and later answered the call to full-time ministry at Goshen Free Will Baptist Church in Mt. Holly, N.C. While a student at Free Will Baptist Bible College, he realized that God was leading him to minister to young people overseas.

Cristina accepted the Lord at the age of six and was baptized by her father at her home church in Omaha, Neb. While pursuing a music degree at FWBBC, Cristina answered the call to foreign missions during her freshman year.

EARLY MINISTRY
During summer breaks from college Matt worked in several churches: Goshen FWB Church in Mt. Holly, N.C., First FWB Church in Dardenelle, Ark., and Bethel FWB Church in Dearborn Heights, Mich. He served as children’s church pastor at West End FWB Church in Springfield, Tenn., for five years. He was also a member of the 1997 Go & Be team to Côte d’Ivoire.

Matt and Cristina served with Steve and Becky Riggs in Nantes as short-term missionary apprentices for nine months (1999-2000). They completed three years working with the youth at Liberty Bible FWB Church in Gainesville, Ga., in 2003.

HOME CHURCH
Matt - Goshen FWB Church, Mt. Holly, N.C.
Cristina - Maranatha FWB Church, Omaha, Neb.