Lauren Montenegro

Pioneers

Lauren has been serving with Pioneers in southwest France for almost 17 years. During that time she has been involved in four different church plants, each in a different stage: the Basque Coast Baptist Church (now an established church with a pastor), the Surf Church Hossegor (a small but growing church that started in 2009) and is currently serving on the French Baptist Federation’s church-planitng committee, supporting church plants across France. Having planted a church in the Catholic pilgrimage town of Lourdes, she now uses her expertise with Catholicism to train other missionaries in understanding Roman Catholicism to reach Europe. She is also currently completing her doctoral thesis with VU Amsterdam and Union School of Theology (Wales), focusing on the impact and influence of apparitions of Mary. In 2025, she married Aldren, who works locally.