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  • A Response to Chuck Colson on Quebec

    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 tremendous influence, testimony, and resources...
    Posted to Rob & Martine Karch (Weblog) by Karch on 03-20-2008

  • Videos: Mega Snowstorm (Post #100)

    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 a foot and a half away from breaking the all-time...
    Posted to Rob & Martine Karch (Weblog) by Karch on 03-10-2008

  • Ridiculed for Christ

    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 for the first time. Last Wednesday, the first...
    Posted to Rob & Martine Karch (Weblog) by Karch on 02-01-2008

  • Video: Le Rigodon

    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. This secular song "Dégénération " by...
    Posted to Rob & Martine Karch (Weblog) by Karch on 01-10-2008

  • Video: "...if Christ was born today?"

    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 of Christmas? If Christ was born today, what impact...
    Posted to Rob & Martine Karch (Weblog) by Karch on 12-12-2007

  • A Traditional Christmas in Quebec

    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, opening presents at the stroke of midnight is still...
    Posted to Rob & Martine Karch (Weblog) by Karch on 12-03-2007

  • Video: Canada Ignorance Test

    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).
    Posted to Rob & Martine Karch (Weblog) by Karch on 11-19-2007

  • Video: Joe Canadian

    Yes, this is an old beer commercial. But is a cool 60-second introduction to being Canadian and Canadian culture (albeit, English-Canadian).
    Posted to Rob & Martine Karch (Weblog) by Karch on 10-21-2007

  • A Former English-Hater, a Quebec Nation, and a New Church

    -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 is radically set apart from the rest of Canada....
    Posted to Rob & Martine Karch (Weblog) by Karch on 12-14-2006
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