Pierre LeBel
Having come to faith from a hippie background in 1973, Pierre was a member of the Burning Bush
Coffee House community in St-Sauveur, QC, in 1974-1975. It is here that he met Alice and they were
married in November 1975. They flew to The Netherlands the following spring to join the Dilaram
Houses, a branch of Youth With A Mission, reaching out to hippies all along the “hippie trail” from
Amsterdam to Kathmandu, Nepal, from Morocco to London, England. After pursuing further training
In Lausanne, Switzerland, they were members of the pioneering team for YWAM France where they
remained another 3 years before returning to Canada. After six years in a leadership role at the
YWAM Quebec training base in Dunham, Pierre founded and directed YWAM Montreal from 1986-
2019. He is a member of YWAM'S Canadian Eldership as well as its’ North American Cities Leadership
Team. He directed and oversaw the bilingual 8-month URBAN CULTURES Discipleship Training School
(UCDTS) from 2006 - 2017. His primary vocation is the interpretation of Christian faith and spirituality
in the context of secular, urban and postchristian Quebec society and culture. He is the author of the
book, “IMAGO DEI, devenir pleinement humain” (becoming fully human). In 2019, he obtained a MTh
at Laval University. His thesis deals with the advances towards the inculturation of Christian faith as
experienced by emergent churches in the postchristian society of Quebec. He also administrates a
blog on Facebook called TranscendArts. He is a founding member of the Missio Dei Forum (2008-
present) in Montreal as well as a member (recently) of the working group behind Témoins, a Parisbased
association dedicated to an emerging Christian culture (temoins.com). His role includes
mentoring younger leaders in and out of YWAM, public speaking and writing. He and Alice (retired in
2019) have three happily married children and, for now, five grandchildren.
Contact information
pierrerlebel@gmail.com
Financial Support
http://ywamcanada.org/donations.html
