Quebec evangelicals host prayer summit
DUNHAM, QC–A group of 20 Francophone evangelicals took part in a two-day prayer summit at a "Jeunesse en Mission" (Youth With a Mission) retreat centre in the Eastern Townships of Quebec.
Meeting under the auspices of the French Protestant Evangelical Alliance of Quebec (AFPEQ), 18 men and two women from nine different denominations and two parachurch groups spent two days with no agenda other than "to seek God through worship and prayer and to fellowship across denominational and doctrinal lines."
They included six missionaries ministering to French Quebecers and 14 native Quebec francophones–12 fulltime ministry workers and two committed lay Christians.
"Never before in the history of Quebec has such a diverse representation of the Francophone evangelical church assembled to spend an extended time in worship, prayer and fellowship," say organizers, who are already planning another summit for next year.
According to AFPEQ, even more effort will be made to broaden the diversity of participants, especially among French Quebec’s two largest denominational groups (Pentecostals and Fellowship Baptists), who were not represented at the February 1-3 gathering.
Those at the summit were members of the Alliance, Baptist General Conference, Brethren, Convention Baptist, Elim Fellowship, Evangelical Free, Mennonite, Worldwide Church of God and independent churches. The French expressions of InterVarsity (GBU) and Youth With a Mission (JEM) in Quebec also participated.