President's Blog

The Quebec Experience begins at a hotel near the Montreal Trudeau International Airport. We travel to Quebec City and spend two days in Old Quebec before returning to Montreal for one day. This guided tour will be characterized by great fellowship with other leadership couples, cultural discovery, relaxation, and a deepening understanding of Quebec’s spiritual reality. Historical vignettes will be shared at various points during the tour, as well as presentations of church planting and church replanting projects. As a participant, you will be invited to consider becoming a partner, as part of The Fellowship’s 7x7=1 formula. The cost for hotel accommodations and breakfasts, lunches in restaurants, along with in-province travel expenses is $2,000 per couple and $1,500 for an individual. Participants are responsible for arranging their own transportation to and from Montreal, along with two dinners October 14 and 15. Contact Hugo Éthier (Fellowship Francophone Coordinator) to register ASAP, as spaces are limited: hethier@fellowship.ca. Deadline is August 1, 2026.

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What you need to know:

When: October 13-17, 2026

Where: Montreal area and Quebec City

Hotels: 4-star quality with breakfast included

Hosts: Rev. Hugo Éthier, Fellowship Francophone Coordinator and Rev. Steven Jones, Fellowship National President

What: Multiple guided tours of historical sites with a guide

Why: Exposure to Fellowship church plant projects and opportunity to partner

Cost: $2,000 per couple; $1,500 per individual

Registration: To register contact Hugo Éthier at hethier@fellowship.ca. Only 12 participants may register. Registration closes on August 1, 2026 or when 12 participants have confirmed.

WHY Church Planting in Quebec?

Quebec is Canada’s largest mission field. The current reality is that our AEBEQ Region is a mature Region in the least-reached mission field in North America.

After six decades of ministry in Quebec there are 85 French-speaking Fellowship Baptist churches and about 9,000 believers in these churches. This is good news.

The stark reality is that the seven million Francophones living in Quebec, and the other one million living elsewhere in Canada, are largely unreached with the Gospel. Only 0.8% of Francophones identify themselves as evangelical Christians. Missiologists indicate that until the number of evangelical Christians within a people group reaches the 2-3% threshold, a church planting movement will struggle to maintain momentum and struggle to accomplish the entire mission task on their own.

However, the Region is mature in the sense that it is led by spiritually mature leaders. God has raised up some extraordinary and visionary leaders to advance the cause for Christ in this Region. Since 1971, the AEBEQ Region has been shepherding their growing ministry.

Our Funding Model

A few years back, Francophone ministry in The Fellowship moved from being funded through support for individual missionaries to strategic partnerships between English churches and new francophone church plants.

After 56 years, the French Mission formally drew to a close as a Fellowship National Agency on December 31, 2014 after ensuring each of its missionaries completed individualized transition plans.

Fellowship churches and individual donors from across Canada are now encouraged to engage in collaborative relationships with Francophone church plants through direct and strategic partnerships that could potentially involve the sharing of resources, work teams, and mutual prayer support. These strategic partnerships are brokered by Fellowship National and managed by the AEBEQ Church Planting Director.

Our immediate objective is clear: to improve and encourage engagement from our English-speaking churches and our faithful team of individual donors to continue in partnering with and funding Francophone church plants so that an even greater harvest of souls will be gathered in the years ahead! Our ultimate objective is to reach a point in Quebec where at least 2% of the population self-identify as evangelical, and the AEBEQ Region has sufficient strength to sustain and ensure the continuous multiplication of churches.

It is crystal clear that church planting in Quebec has been and will continue to be the most effective way to reach new people and new communities with the Gospel.

Our partnership strategy continues to focus primarily on Quebec where 84% of Canada’s Francophone population lives. It is our sincere hope and expectation that dynamic church planting partnerships will be developed between English-speaking congregations and/or individual donors and Francophone church plants across our nation.

The Plan: 7x7=1

Yes, we know…the math doesn’t work, but the plan will! It involves:

7 churches and/or donors – Fellowship National is responsible to prayerfully seek out and find churches or individual donors to partner with Regionally-approved Francophone church plants.

7 years – The AEBEQ (Quebec) Region has the responsibility to manage and encourage these partnerships between churches or individual donors and Francophone churches within their Region. These relationships will be in place for seven years with the possibility of a three-year extension.

1 Francophone church plant – Our partnership objective will be to see each Francophone church plant develop and mature into an autonomous, self-governing, self-supporting, and self-propagating local church to the glory of God!

See you in Quebec!

Pastoral couples, leaders, church staff, mission committees, or GO-team leaders are all welcome.

Come to Quebec for October 13-17, 2026 and learn about church planting in the most spiritually needy  field in Canada. Be exposed to the needs and the immense opportunity to win Canadians to Christ who happen to speak French.

Don’t hesitate in joining, last year our Quebec Experience team was full before the August 1 deadline. Hope to hear from you soon.