Many North American missionaries see themselves as being ambassadors for Christ. Georges Boujakly also sees himself as being an ambassador for Southern Baptists. Boujakly, a church planter strategist, and his wife, Carolyn, are featured during the 2001 Week of Prayer for North American Missions, March 4-11. As he drives around the city looking for places to plant a new congregation, he is constantly reminded of the barriers to the gospel. Symbols of Christianity are everywhere and serve as anchors of the French Catholic heritage of its past.
Churches stand tall and proud with spires pointing heavenward.
But they are largely empty, visited by a handful of the faithful and given lip service, if that, by the majority of the population. Forty years ago the Silent Revolution started in our universities. Up until then all of Qu b cois life was dominated by the Catholic Church. It s a society that has relegated the church to the bottom of the heap like some cast off old coat. It s a society where 55 percent of children are born out of wedlock to couples living together, and the abortion rate is the highest in the Western world.