About the Author

The Voice That Walked Through Fire: Joanie Pelchat

Joanie Pelchat said yes to Yahusha at five years old. She has not taken it back since. Born and raised in Quebec, Canada, she learned early that silence protects the wrong people. So she chose to speak instead.

She survived sexual abuse from her own uncle. She testified against him alone in a police station at twenty years old. The court convicted him. Her family called her crazy. The professionals called her clear. She listened to the professionals.

Years later, she led her province as a Captain during the Freedom Convoy of 2022. She documented every communication. She walked within the law. She protected her daughter, Laura Faith, from mandates that threatened children. No charges came against her because there was nothing to charge.

She lost her brother Israel to a motocross accident. Her mother left her at thirteen. A flood destroyed her home. She swallowed forty morphine pills in a kitchen and woke up to an angel telling her to eat and live. She now raises Laura in a small country house with dogs, cats, and birds. She built EMET Water from a spring named Élie at address 111. She built EMET Apothecary from biblical plants. She built this book from the truth that would not stay buried.

Joanie writes to free the ones still trapped in silence. She writes because someone wrote for her once. She lives in Estrie, Quebec, where she tends a garden she has seen in her dreams since childhood.