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Assemblee Evangelique Assemblée Evangélique de Sainte-Foy is a French open brethren assembly that was founded as Salle Evangelique Belvedere Evangélique Belvédère in Sainte-Foy, initially a suburb of Quebec City, [[Quebec]], prior to 1954 by Jean-Paul Berney, who was born in 1926 in Lausanne, Switzerland (and died in 20142011). Berney also founded [[Assemblee Chretienne Cartier Avenue, Quebec City, QC|Assemblee Chretienne Assemblée Chrétienne Cartier Avenue]] in 1955 that met until merging with this assembly in 1960.

Quebec City with its suburb of Sainte-Foy was one of the first places touched by the spirit of revival that affected a number of centres throughout the Province in the seventies and early eighties. The work grew considerably and the assembly was then faced with the question of whether their building should be extended or whether it would be better to launch another assembly. With the blessing of the leadership, a second assembly was begun across the Saint Lawrence in 1983. More about this later. The present building in Sainte-Foy was eventually expanded to accommodate the still growing numbers.

Early in the present century there were approximately eighty believers in fellowship with about one hundred and twenty in all attending regularly. Today, attendance is pretty much the same, in the vicinity of one hundred with three-quarters of that number fellowshipping at the Lord’s Supper. The numbers illustrates illustrate a “levelling off” phenomenon which has marked much of the evangelical work in the province since before the turn of the century.