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ROB: (born in 1977 and raised in the Pacific Northwest of the USA) studied theology at Davis college, met Martine in Paris on a mission trip, married Martine, moved to Quebec, learned French, had two children, and is now planting a new church in St-Jérôme...
Recently, Chuck Colson (founder of Prison Fellowship Ministries and BreakPoint ), a man who has been greatly used by God and that I greatly respect and admire, published this article concerning Quebec. To begin, I greatly appreciate Chuck Colson and his...
For the three of you who care, this is blog post #100 on our World Venture blog (I ate a cookie in celebration). Two feet of snow in one night...I always dreamed of winters like this growing up in snow-poor western Oregon. We are now officially about...
She loves Jesus. She is outspoken about her faith and full of compassion. She spent most of last summer working with many of the underprivileged in Haiti. She would love nothing more than to see the few thousand students at her Cégep see the love of Jesus...
Every year, between Christmas and New Year, a certain genre of music blasts from speakers all over Quebec. It is called "le rigodon." "Le rigodon" is a form of traditional Quebecker dance music from before the turn of the last century...
Don Carson still teaches theology at least once a year in Quebec... in French! Of course, this due to the fact that he is the son of a Quebec church planter... and has a heart for ordinary pastors. This is a post from the Desiring God blog by David Mathis...
Exactly one year ago, my friend Zac and I wandered the streets of St-Jérôme asking French-speaking Quebeckers these questions: What were the best and worst presents you ever received for Christmas? What is the meaning of Christmas? What is the origin...
Footprints on crackling snow. Visible breath. Clanging bells following midnight mass. All these, on an often sub-zero Christmas Eve, commemorated the beginning of the traditional Quebecker Christmas celebration. Though few still attend midnight mass,...
So you think you might know a thing or two about your neighbor to the north? Watch this clip to find out. (And we are making no political statements here either... it's simply very funny).
Yes, this is an old beer commercial. But is a cool 60-second introduction to being Canadian and Canadian culture (albeit, English-Canadian).
Sometimes you just don't ask. Well, we did anyway. The world "kill" is a dutch word that means "stream" or "river". So about an hour north of New York City, where many Dutch historically settled, there is a cluster of towns with names like Fish kill ...
Québec is the largest Canadian province (about the size of Alaska) and the only one where French is the population’s first language. Québec is home to over 7 million people, over 6 million French-speakers, and around 700,000 immigrants. Its import-export...
Here are the 4 dudes who, by the grace of God, are trying to keep this new church plant on track (kind of a temporary elder board until the new church gets up and going). Go ahead and get to know them a bit: ROB (me-left): just a dude who followed God...
With nothing to replace the enormous void caused by the collapse of the Catholic church over the past generation, Quebec is trusting in a non-existant foundation on which to base their future.
-An Interview with a Quebecker-American (Rob Karch)- . I thought all Canadians were basically hockey-loving, pacifist, Americans that said ‘eh’ and had socialized healthcare. Is there really a difference between Quebeckers and English-Canadians? Quebec...
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