Tracadie chrétienne reunis, NB

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In the early part of 1979, the first French-speaking assembly in New Brunswick was planted in the small village of Green River, near Edmundston, the Green River chrétienne reunis, NB.

Larry Buote, who had been commended to the Lord’s work in Quebec, attended the Moncton Conference in 1978 and visited some new converts on the Acadian Peninsula on the northeast tip of New Brunswick. A man from Tracadie, Leon Comeau, had been saved through reading a New Testament received in the mail, and his wife soon followed. Larry Buote found out about him and soon Leon came in contact with others who shared the same salvation he had found.

The work progressed and meetings were held in Leon’s basement. Several more professed. These new converts met regularly for Bible study. Then the tent went up for public declaration of the Gospel. Much opposition developed, and the town council, who had given them permission to erect the tent, advised them to take it down. Another tentative effort to erect the tent somewhere else also failed, so the meetings were held in different homes in Tracadie. God was working and five souls more were saved. Soon sixteen believers were gathered for the first time in local capacity to Remember their Lord, and called their assembly Tracadie chrétienne reunis, NB.

Mr. Vincent Davey who spent most of his life in the work of God in Quebec, made many trips to the area. Leslie Wells, a French language professor from Northern Ireland, came to New Brunswick for a short visit in 1981 and returned to help in the Gospel in the summer of 1983. He was later commended to the French work in New Brunswick in 1985. He settled in Tracadie and has endeavored to help in the Gospel and in the teaching of God’s Word. He proved to be a great help in translating hymns from the Believer’s Hymn Book to add to the new hymn book for the French speaking assemblies. He has been a source of encouragement in writing different articles in La Banni re de la V rit, published four times a year.

A few souls have been saved in the village of Neguac and received in the assembly in Tracadie. A weekly Gospel meeting has been held in the home of one of the believers. ‘Kember texts’ are assembled there. This great work has been used of God to spread the message through many parts of the world, and the brethren in Neguac had the privilege to be part of that work which began with Walter Kember from Sarnia, Ontario.