Redemption Church

“At first, people look at you like you’re a unicorn.”

That’s the initial reaction Andrew Mark and Petra Adil get when they strike up gospel conversations with people in downtown Montreal.

“Quebec is less than 1% evangelical and very ethnically diverse,” Andrew Mark says. “So when people here meet a Christian, they’re actually very curious. They ask all kinds of questions like, ‘How can we know the Bible is true?’ or ‘What’s the difference between your God and my god?’ ”

Every Friday night, Andrew Mark and his evangelism team— “And when we say, ‘team’ ” he says, “we mean our whole church” —go out to the busy sidewalks lined with restaurants and shops to talk with people. “Answering questions, sharing the gospel,” he says, “it’s our favorite thing to do.”

It’s not surprising, then, that their church plant is growing faster than anyone ever imagined. “For us to baptize ten people in our first year and then to double in size in less than two years—that’s unheard of in Montreal,” Andrew Mark says. “Only a big God can take a small church plant like ours and do such amazing things.”

Prayer Requests
More fruit to come from Friday night on-the-street gospel conversations.
God to call and equip church planting interns out of Andrew Mark’s church who will help plant more new works.
More Christians to come and share Christ with the 99% of people in Quebec who are lost.

Will Buchanan cleans up well.

Every Sunday morning, Will, the pastor of Hillcrest Baptist Church in Hanover, Virginia, shows up wearing his best gray suit. He’s definitely not what he once was.

“I used to be lost in addiction,” he says. “First it was pills, then he**in. And if I could’ve found anything worse, I would’ve done that too. But then God radically changed me, and now I don’t even look like the person I used to be.”

Will is one of Fred Weymouth’s favorite success stories. They met when Will was at his drug-addicted worst, not long after Fred, along with his wife, Casey, started The Fix, a church plant and residential recovery program aimed at reaching people who are struggling with homelessness, drug addiction, and alcoholism.

“We spend a year with people,” Fred says. “We walk them through recovery, we teach them about Jesus, and now we also make sure we introduce them to Will. When he came here, God made him a new person. Our students see him pastoring and can know God has a plan for their lives, too.”

Prayer Requests
God to thoroughly equip Will so he can lead his new church well.
The men and women at The Fix to discover the gospel purpose God has for their lives.
Fred and others at The Fix to build witnessing relationships with people who need healing and hope.