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...Read More

***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,...Read More

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...Read More

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...Read More

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...Read More

“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...Read More

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...Read More

My little brother, sisters and I were born into a Catholic family, but we were never set on one path. We attended a Jehovah’s Witness school, always teaching me one set of truths, and on Sunday, the Catholic Church would teach us a different set. When I was only seven, our father died, and one...Read More

I was born into a Christian family, where my mother, who had 11 children, was always in the Gospel. I grew up under her teaching and discipleship, and when I was 12, I heard a message preached that touched my heart and led me to committing my life to Jesus. Even though I grew up...Read More

2020 is a beautiful time to get behind someone. Find someone doing what God clearly made them to do and PUSH. Come alongside someone working hard in their corner of His kingdom and get them some water. Join someone who is persevering in faithfulness to the Lord and give them a word of good courage....Read More