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 and empowered by a sound biblical worldview who see themselves as legitimate children of God...Read More
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 ago and now, I have I learned so much. My time here at Emmaus truly helped...Read More
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 it didn’t feel right to me. The whole thing didn’t feel right…I had learned the...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, they have all been Catholic and Voodoo priests, generation after generation. So I was brought...Read More
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 and women who pray for me, support me, disciple me, mentor me, are my friends,...Read More
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