church starting strategist for Montreal and serves as the advocate for Quebec.


“I’m a starter, a visionary,” says Jacques, who has played a part in the start-up of nine Quebec churches and is currently working with a 10th church in the process of officially affiliating with the CNBC. One of Jacques’ goals is to start a church planting center that would train and send out church plant- ers, so he’s developing a network of people who can provide help and resources. Jacques estimates 1,000


communities in Quebec have no evangelical pres- ence. By the year 2020, Avakian would like to see 200 CNBC churches in Quebec and 20,000 baptisms. “I want to see churches with a vision to plant other churches… I don’t want church to be a place where we go on Sundays to take a breath before holding it again for the rest of the week. Sunday should be a cel- ebration of what we do during the rest of the week.” Jacques has also made it his personal mission that every soul who lives in the province of Quebec


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