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Rev. Henri Lanctin (1892-1986

Henri Lanctin was born in Fontenay, France, on March 21 1892. At the age of 16, he emigrated to the United States where he found employment as a gardener in Paterson, New Jersey. He received Jesus Christ as his personal Saviour during the summer of 1909. After studying at the Feller Institute in Quebec, he became a pastor in Lac Long, Quebec, and then in Connor, New Brunswick, where he contracted tuberculosis in 1931. The doctors gave him no hope of recovery. However, miraculously, he did get better; and, in 1934, he founded La Bonne Nouvelle Mission and Bookstore in Moncton. Despite contant - and at times - violent opposition, he contineud for over sixty years to preach the Gospel of salvation by grace to French-speaking people in Canada, especially Acadians. Rev. Henri Lanctin hosted North America's first French-language evangelical broadcast, on CKCW radio, in Moncton, on Sunday, November 17, 1935. He also laid the foundations of French Baptist work in New Brunswick, which today numbers eight local churches. Rev. Lanctin died in Campbellton, New Brunswick, on February 26, 1986, at the age of 93.