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Check back soon for information on future short-term mission
trips.
see highlights and pictures of our
April trip to Montreal
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Facts
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- 3.5 million people live in the city of Montreal.
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Montreal was founded by the French
in 1642. It is the second largest French speaking
city in the world, after Paris.
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Montreal is a crossroad between
Europe and America, encompassing more than 100 ethnic
grou ps.
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Quebecois are 85% Catholic in
culture, yes less than 20% attend church.
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The society in Quebec is post-Catholic
and yet anything that is not Catholic in Quebec
is seen as a cult.
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In Quebec there are over 1,000
spiritual organizations and cults.
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20% of all books sold in Quebec
are new age books.
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Quebec ranks number one in Canada
in suicide, child poverty, divorce, unmarried couples,
and illegitimate births.
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In radically rejecting the Catholic
Church, the spiritual search of the Quebecois became
very eclectic and non-religious, resulting in a
post-modernism more advanced in Quebec than in any
other society in North America.
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There are less Evangelical Christians
in Quebec than in Cuba.
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To have a church for every 1,500
people, over 4,000 new churches would need to be
planted.
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NOTE:
CCFOI requires strict compliance
with rules and regulations, including the rules concerning conduct,
dress, and Christian lifestyle. Failure by team members, leaders,
and staff to comply with these policies is grounds for dismissal,
without refund or reimbursement. Team members, leaders, and
staff serve at their own risk, and CCFOI is not liable in the
event of sickness, accident, death or terrorist acts or for
transportation and other expense beyond normal involvement. |
