.png){kind=logo}
Stories & Blog
Hope on the Doorstep
QUEBEC — Knock, knock, knock. Crossworld worker Laurie stood at the door and prayed for a divine appointment. When no one answered, she knocked again.
Laurie and a team from her church had spent the last few days going door-to-door around their town to talk about one of the biggest problems in Quebec: suicide.
As Laurie was about to walk away, she saw a car pulling into the driveway. She walked down the porch steps and over to the young woman who rolled down the window.
“Hi, I’m with a suicide prevention group and we’re walking around the neighborhood handing out resources,” Laurie said.
The woman teared up as she spoke: “I don’t believe anything happens by chance.”
“Do you know someone who is having dark thoughts?” Laurie asked.
“I am,” she said.
The woman parked her car and went into her house. She came back out carrying a toddler.
“My daughter is keeping me alive,” she said.
Laurie talked more with the woman and offered her some suicide resources as well as a Gospel of John, which she accepted. They hugged and exchanged phone numbers before the woman went back inside and Laurie went on to the next house.
Claude, a local believer in Quebec, lost his son to suicide 20 years ago. He made it his goal to visit 1000 villages in Quebec to comfort those affected by suicide and to prevent future suicides by sharing about Jesus, the real answer to life’s problems. Other believers have joined Claude in this pursuit, and together they’ve visited 711 villages and 50 cities so far.
Last year Claude’s group came to Laurie’s city and partnered with her church to visit 5,000 homes. On one single street they encountered:
This is a life-and-death ministry happening right now in Quebec. Will you pray for the suicide prevention team? Pray for divine encounters, open doors and open hearts, and for the spread of the gospel to all those affected by suicide.
* Stats from Statistics Canada
Laurie and a team from her church had spent the last few days going door-to-door around their town to talk about one of the biggest problems in Quebec: suicide.
As Laurie was about to walk away, she saw a car pulling into the driveway. She walked down the porch steps and over to the young woman who rolled down the window.
“Hi, I’m with a suicide prevention group and we’re walking around the neighborhood handing out resources,” Laurie said.
The woman teared up as she spoke: “I don’t believe anything happens by chance.”
“Do you know someone who is having dark thoughts?” Laurie asked.
“I am,” she said.
The woman parked her car and went into her house. She came back out carrying a toddler.
“My daughter is keeping me alive,” she said.
Laurie talked more with the woman and offered her some suicide resources as well as a Gospel of John, which she accepted. They hugged and exchanged phone numbers before the woman went back inside and Laurie went on to the next house.
Claude, a local believer in Quebec, lost his son to suicide 20 years ago. He made it his goal to visit 1000 villages in Quebec to comfort those affected by suicide and to prevent future suicides by sharing about Jesus, the real answer to life’s problems. Other believers have joined Claude in this pursuit, and together they’ve visited 711 villages and 50 cities so far.
Last year Claude’s group came to Laurie’s city and partnered with her church to visit 5,000 homes. On one single street they encountered:
- someone who was fighting suicidal thoughts
- a woman whose husband was scheduled for assisted suicide that evening
- someone who had overcome suicidal thoughts and was now enjoying life
- police cars at an apartment building where a suicide had just taken place that morning
This is a life-and-death ministry happening right now in Quebec. Will you pray for the suicide prevention team? Pray for divine encounters, open doors and open hearts, and for the spread of the gospel to all those affected by suicide.
* Stats from Statistics Canada
_1721203019_600x400.JPG)
