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growth in their congregation over the years.
They are also the official distributors of Faith
Library books translated into French for all
of North America.
In 2007, Ken and Tonja saw the fulfillment
of what the Lord had shown Ken 17
years earlier. RHEMA Bible Training Center
came to Quebec. Located in Drummondville,
the campus is only an hour to an hour
and a half away from the province’s major
cities. This works well with the intense,
weekend-class format used at RHEMA Quebec
and at many other RHEMA international
campuses. Students are able to commute in
on Fridays and leave Saturday evenings.
In a unique relationship, RHEMA Quebec
works closely with RHEMA France to reach
as many French-speaking people as possible.
The schools share much of the same teaching
staff, with European and Quebec based
instructors teaching courses on both sides
of the Atlantic at different times throughout
the school year. Ken explained, “We can accomplish
so much more together than we
can apart. If each of us on the French team
were just doing our own thing, we wouldn’t
have nearly the same impact.”
It’s no surprise then that RHEMA Quebec
and RHEMA France both launched new
campuses in September 2010—bringing
the number of French-speaking RHEMA
campuses to four. RHEMA France opened
a campus in Nice, and RHEMA Quebec
established a new campus in Montreal, the
second-largest French-speaking city in the
world after Paris.
Because the need is so great, both Ken
and Tonja are excited about the influence
RHEMA is beginning to have in Quebec.
Ken explained, “Quebec is 99 percent Roman
Catholic, but only about 15 percent are
actually practicing. In the generation we’re
trying to reach, most have never been in
If you are a French-speaker or
you know someone who is, more
details about what RHEMA is
doing in Quebec are available at
www.RhemaQuebec.org.
church. They have never heard the simple
message of salvation and have no clue which
end is up as far as morality is concerned.
Children are growing up in a very liberal
and godless environment.”
For the Taylors, the one great thing about
such an environment is that the people are
hungry. “They don’t know what they are
hungry for,” Ken noted, “and they are looking
in the wrong places, but they’re hungry.
We have the opportunity to offer them the
only thing that will satisfy them.”
Throughout the years, cultural differences,
religious and racial prejudices,
spiritual opposition, and the difficulties
of educating their five children within the
French school system have presented the
Taylors with many opportunities to persevere.
In spite of these challenges, Ken and
Tonja, along with their family, are seeing
the rewards of their faithfulness and dedication
to God’s call. Nearly all RHEMA Quebec
graduates are in some form of ministry
today. And in addition to their native Quebec
graduates, they have alumni from Frenchspeaking
Africa, and even Haiti, who have
grabbed hold of the Word of faith and are
taking it back to their nations.
Ken and Tonja have also seen amazing
fruit in their church. Twelve years ago one of
their members, Celine, underwent a routine
operation. Before the operation, Tonja felt
led to pray against infection—and it soon
became clear why. After the surgery, doctors
noticed an abnormal black spot on Celine’s
stomach. Within a matter of hours, the spot
began to grow.
Celine had contracted the flesh-eating
disease. And it wasn’t in her arm or leg—
which could be amputated to save her life.
The disease was in her abdomen. Doctors
said they didn’t know of anyone who had
lived after contracting the disease in that
part of the body.
The disease began eating Celine’s abdominal
muscles and ovaries. When doctors
opened her up in surgery, however, they
saw something amazing. Inexplicably, the
bacteria stopped when it reached her vital
organs.
Though the disease had halted its deadly
course, Celine remained in a coma. Ken
went to see her in the hospital, where her
husband stood faithfully by her side praying
in the Spirit. “There was no sign of life,” he
recalled, “but I had it in my heart to speak
Romans 8:11 to her: ‘If the same Spirit that
raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, then
He will quicken your mortal body.’” As soon
as Ken spoke those words, Celine shook
her head yes. After a week in a coma, she
woke up.
Though the immediate danger had
passed, Celine’s battle of faith was far from
over. She had no muscles in her abdomen
and was in great pain. However, because she
was in a church that believed in the Word
and divine healing, over time she recovered
completely. She went on to attend RHEMA
Quebec as a member of the charter class.
Today she is one of the main praise and
worship leaders in the church—a miracle in
itself for someone who had no abdominal
muscles. God is also using her to minister
healing to others.
Celine and
her husband—
long-time
members of
the Taylors’
church—after
her miraculous
healing from
the flesh-eating
disease.
Though Ken gives all the glory to Jesus
for this miraculous healing, he is also very
grateful to the Hagins. “If the Hagins had not
been faithful to their call, then we wouldn’t
have been trained to do what we are doing.
God called us—a young couple from Missouri—to
go to Quebec, minister in French,
and reach these people,” he said. “We have
just tried to obey God—to do what He
has called us to do—and stay faithful, and
persevere.”
The Taylors are determined to reach
the finish line. Each year along with their
diplomas, RHEMA USA graduates receive
track-and-field relay race runner’s batons,
symbolizing that it is their turn to run their
race for God. “We have taken hold of that
baton and we are running with it,” Ken said.
“We are not going to give up, because when
we see our graduates preaching the Gospel
with passion and the fire of the anointing, it
makes all those years of effort worth it.”