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Dear friend, I am speaking as a Haitian who knows and understands the historical setting, the religious proclivity, the socio-political climates, and the environmental landscape of my native land: I have never been so convinced that Emmaus is vital for the redemption, salvation, and transformation of Haiti.  Haiti desperately needs a group of young people influenced...
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The Lord helped me to graduate in December, and here I am! I still live in Cap-Haitian, and I work in the Children’s Ministry at my church, and I continue to lead worship. I live with my family again, and I’m still taking some English classes. When I think about where I was four years...
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I wasn’t from a Christian family at all…my mom served the demons, and my father was a witchdoctor. I was in the Haitian Catholic Church and school growing up, and one day our Sunday School teacher was having us sing for a program, and we were worshipping all the different members of the nativity, and...
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***Due to the ongoing fragile nature of this first year student’s situation, we have decided not to share his name and photo. I grew up in Northern, Haiti, way out in the country, never with electricity or water. I grew up in a family many generations Catholic, well engrained in Voodoo. My parents, their parents,...
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I don’t know if you remember this from my story four years ago, but I wasn’t going to go into theology. End of story.  But when the Lord made it clear and I came, He blessed my obedience by giving me a family. At Emmaus I found my family, my brothers and sisters, the men...
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I grew up in a home that had a love for what God loves. We were not wealthy by any means, and even our church which my father helped build was built of coconut branches, and we had to rebuild it three times a year due to storms. But the love and sacrifice my father...
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When I was a child, I was born into a non-Christian family who didn’t know God at all.  My mother and father were two people who fell in love, but my father was already married to another woman and had children with her.  My mom became pregnant with me, gave me to her parents as soon as...
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What is former president Dr. Matt Ayars excited about? What is current president Dr. Guenson Charlot praising the Lord for? How can you be praying and coming alongside of what God is doing at and through Emmaus University? This seven minute video will catch you up in a powerful way! If you’re ready to join...
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“I was born in Labrier, not far from Emmaus, and I was born into a family that was truly vulnerable and not Christian. The way we grew up, we just didn’t have any capacity. My father worked hard in the garden, but often we didn’t have any extra money for school, and I had to...
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My family wasn’t a Christian one. Throughout my life I had different people come and talk to me about Jesus, but I never accepted Him through them. As I grew up, though, I felt God speak to me, reach out to me, in my dreams. My mom died when I was young, and worry became...
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