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==History==
[[Assemblee Chretienne Source de Vie, QC|Assemblée Chrétienne Source de Vie]], Sherbrooke, Estrie, Southeast [[Quebec|Québec]], [[Canada]] is a French open brethren assembly founded in 1987.

This assembly grew out of the nearby French assembly, Assemblée Chrétienne de Sherbrooke. The latter had constructed its own chapel in 1956, and as the work continued to grow, it became necessary to enlarge the building to the maximum permitted on the building lot. Eventually two gatherings for worship on Sunday mornings became necessary. Consideration was given to the sale of the building in order to purchase a larger facility as well as to that of starting another assembly elsewhere. After much prayer, it was decided to go with the second option. So, in full fellowship with the Sherbrooke assembly, a new one was begun in nearby Lennoxville in 1987.

 Dr. Leigh Clarke, who had been with the Sherbrooke assembly, was one of those who hived off. He had recently set up a medical practice in nearby Lennoxville. The property where he had his office and home offered ample space for the new assembly. God blessed the testimony and a number came to faith in the Lord Jesus. When Dr. Clarke found it necessary to move his office and home into Sherbrooke, it meant that Source de Vie had to find a new meeting place. The only location available in Lennoxville was the hall of the United Church. For ten years, beginning in 1989, the assembly rented this facility for its worship and prayer meetings.

 Over the years, several commended workers, most of them married couples, laboured long and hard in connection with the work here. These include [[Norman Buchanan]] (Marion), [[Pierre Pellerin]] (Claudette), [[Marj Robbins]], [[Arnold Reynolds]] (Janet), [[Roy Buttery]] (Evelyn), as well as [[Martin Jalbert]] (Yannick), the latter couple also serving at the nearby [[Word of Life Bible Institute]]. During the academic year, a goodly number of students from the institute were regularly in attendance, often overcrowding the facilities on the second floor of [[Grace Chapel]] in downtown Sherbrooke to which the assembly had been obliged to move in 2006.

 It was during these years, while the assembly was now meeting at its fourth location, that a cross-cultural evangelistic effort was begun in the Mont Bellevue sector of the city. Eric and Jennifer Dallaire, living in a multi-cultural area of the city, developed a program involving believers from the assembly, to reach their neighbors with the Gospel. The ''Club des Jeunes Explorateurs'' was a success and led to the eventual relocation of the assembly itself to its current location in the Mont Bellevue sector of Sherbrooke.

 In the meantime, God sent full-time workers, [[Jean-Marc Princivil]] and wife Myra with their young family, who arrived in July 2014 to join the leadership team. It was in April of the following year that the assembly finally secured its own facilities, purchasing a restaurant in need of extensive renovations, located on a main thoroughfare of the city.

This area of Sherbrooke is a sector known to have the city’s densest population. Its many ethnic families have very special needs. Most live precariously from every point of view: low income, isolation, difficult family and social situations. They need to know and discover what it really means to be loved with the love of Jesus. Basically, they need to be shown their true value and dignity as persons before God. This the assembly strives to accomplish through a full slate of activities.



==Locations==
* 155 Belvidère St. 1987-1997
* 6 Church St. 1998-1999
* 219 Queen Blvd. 1999-2006
* 267 Montreal St. 2006-2015
* 1925 Belvédère sud 2015-2021 

==Correspondents==
* Pierre Pellerin 1989-1998
* Jacques Houle 1996-2016
* Jean-Marc Princivil 2017-2021+

==Alumni==
* [[Who’s Who at Assemblee Chretienne Source de Vie, QC|Who’s Who at Assemblée Chrétienne Source de Vie, QC]] 1988-2021+

==Sources==
* Walterick Publishers Assembly Address Books: 1987, 1989-2000, 2003-2004, 2006-2008
* ECS Ministries (Emmaus International) Assembly Address Books: 2009-2010, 2013-2014, 2016, 2018, 2020
* News of Quebec