the hope that Haiti has...

Matt and I both continue to see, amidst all of the struggle and hardship here, the Hope of Jesus Christ being carried everywhere. It is unbelievably touching, inspiring, exciting, and humbling to see it carried by the men and women at EBS! I have the privilege as the marketing person at Emmaus Biblical Seminary to translate each student's testimony, and then pair it with their photo to create sponsorship material.

This past week I translated one testimony that really blessed me: not just by this man's life, but also by how the Lord got a hold of him. We get to work and praise and sing and eat and live alongside these men and women each day, hearing and sharing in their stories, and I thought that sharing this testimony might be one way I could share some of this with you!

Please continue to pray (and praise the Lord) for these brothers and sisters as they literally carry His Hope throughout Haiti!

(pictured: one of our brothers who continues to share Jesus to the many seeking Hope in Gonaives)

“Greetings in the name of Jesus Christ!

I would like to share with you my testimony. I was born into a non-Christian family, and not just a family that was not Christian, but a family that believed heavily in demons and Satan. So, whenever we were all children, it was habitual for us to participate in Voodoo ceremonies, doing the Voodoo dances and eating the Voodoo sacrifices.

It was when I was living in these sins that God chose me, right out of the middle. There were two different times that I had a revelation. In this revelation, I was always standing in the middle of darkness and rain, falling from the sky, and then I saw a light descend from the sky and fix itself on me through the rain.

When this light fixed itself on me, I kept trying to hide from it. But then I realized these that the light was something I should desire, not something I should hide from. I thought about this revelation all the time, and thought that perhaps approaching that light was the same thing as approaching holiness, goodness, wholeness.

Finally, in 1997, I was invited into a Christian environment for a three day program at an evangelical church in Vertieres, Haiti. During these services, especially during the first and the third days, I heard two different voices speaking to me, one telling me to go to the pastor and become a Christian and one telling me not to.

“Don’t you already know about the Bible?” the second voice said. “Don’t you already work with children?” (in Voodoo). “You’re already religious! You're on the right path!”

So, I stayed in my seat. Despite the voice that was trying to give me peace about where I was, I was very very troubled, and I didn’t know what to do. An idea came to my head…I would go to the house of the pastor and ask him to pray for me.

I asked my sister-in-law to take me to the pastors house and to pray with me, and as he spoke to me about God, I knew that God was The Light from my revelations, and that the voice telling me that nothing needed to change was Satan. I accepted Jesus and the suffering he underwent at Calvary that moment. After this, I went home and shared the message of salvation with my whole family, converting everyone that would listen.

I have a great vision and desire to share the need we have for Jesus in Haiti.

I promised to raise my children in Jesus, so that they would have a different life than I had.

After this, I was baptized and God signed a contract with me through Psalm 23 vs. 6 that says: “surely goodness and loving kindness will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever!”