Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in an African Pentecostal congregation in Montreal, I examine how identity is produced through the analysis of three identity sites: language practices, religion in the public sphere and the mission of transnational expansion. The church’s identity is produced at different levels of local/global articulations. The latter are shaped on the one hand by political tensions of the dominant Quebecois society, between the national myth and the rhetoric of cosmopolitism, and on the other hand by pentecostal dialectics, between the mission of universal proselytism and strategies of local adaptation. This process remodels the traditional power structure around a population of young, educated, French speaking members who are mobile across national boundaries and focused on a grid of modern references such as education and knowledge.