Unlearning Mission

Unlearning Mission
Listening to Quebec

Québec is unique, and so is mission here. We came to serve “the largest unevangelised people group in North America.” We'd heard about Québec's advanced secularisation, its spiritual darkness and its hard soil. We came with plans and strategies to crack the code and grow the Church, but as the years passed, they often haven't panned out.

And yet, God is working. We find that there is more to the story than the gloom we've heard about. We examine the culture, we examine our expectations, and we examine ourselves. We came with answers, but we come to see that they answer questions the Québécois are not asking.

To unlearn our approach to mission, and to find a new way forward, we need to start asking new questions.

Missionaries, historians, pastors and missiologists with decades of experience in Québec share their stories, their questions and their discoveries. This is the book I wish I could have read when I came 18 years ago. In it, each of us answers the question:

What would you say to a new missionary coming to Québec?