Assemblee Chretienne de Rimouski, QC
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History
Assemblée Chrétienne de Rimouski, Rimouski, Bas-Saint-Laurent, Southeast Québec, Canada was a French open brethren home assembly active 2010-2014.
This assembly, though short-lived, has a long and fascinating history leading up to its founding around 2010. Five decades earlier, in the summer of 1959, Milton Lovering, a commended worker, was returning to his field of service in the Gaspé. He stopped at Rimouski to visit a person who had recently received a New Testament. After being talked with for two and a half hours, the man opened his heart to the Saviour and was wonderfully saved. A year later, he fell sick and was hospitalized. Being isolated from all contact with believers, he caved in to the pressures put upon him to renounce his newfound faith and he returned to the Catholic church.
Time went by and, year after year beginning in the late sixties, the gospel was faithfully preached to the inhabitants of Rimouski via radio (LFV), television (HBN) and gospel literature. In May 1973, for the first time ever, a half hour telecast of the Hour of Decision was aired in French over seven stations throughout Québec, one of which was located at Rimouski. Two years later it was reported that for years the Gospel had been preached in the area and, as a result, some people had been saved and others were deeply interested.
At long last, three decades later, prayer was requested in 2005 by believers in the assembly at Cabano who were giving a helping hand to begin a new assembly testimony at Rimouski. The following year, the ministry of Seed Sowers, under the leadership of Donald Cox, blanketed the area with Bible texts and like materials. By the end of the decade, the assembly was in operation. It was short-lived however, closing in 2014.
Locations
- home meetings @ 450 des Sarcelles
Correspondents
- M. Benoît Lepage
Alumni
Sources
- ECS Ministries (Emmaus International) Assembly Address Books: 2013-2014
- News of Quebec