development of francophone leaders. Within another decade or so the bilingual churches would all become exclusively francophone. In the 1950s, however, these things were still working themselves out. Moreover, some of the other workers gained a certain cachet either because of their superlative prayer letters or because they had endured prison time. It was not Tom’s nature to indulge in the former, and he was spared the latter. Occasionally he was hassled by the police in Drummondville, but that