Is Testimony Tuesday a good idea? Several missionaries in Haiti have mentioned loving hearing the students stories...I hope that you are, too!
Very grateful for the special couple who has joined Joane (who missed the group picture :). THANK YOU. We still have so many students who need families/churches/groups to be praying for them, supporting them and holding their ropes while they continue to work and minister here in Haiti!
Another such young man is Moliere, a very perseverant and kind-hearted first year student whose testimony entirely surprised me. His ongoing story of homelessness, Acts-type living and passion for the unreached is, well...amazing.
He has a beautiful group of Haitian brothers and sisters here, selflessly helping him pay every tuition bill.
Won't you pray about joining them, too, lifting Moliere up in prayer and helping Emmaus train, feed, house and send him out?
Here's his story...
I was born in Petit-Guave 28 years ago, but I wasn’t raised
by my parents, because when I was born, my mom was very sick.
She immediately gave me to my godmother, a sister-in-law of
my moms. I grew up with her and her
family, but when I was in fifth grade, I left there because things weren’t
going well and I went and spent two years with my father.
My father was a witchdoctor, and living there with him I
learned a lot about the Satanic world.
He worked to train me in his ways, but I quickly found that I did not
want to follow in my father’s footsteps.
After two years, I left him and
went to town to continue my education.
During my eighth grade year, I began to follow Christ.
I didn’t have a plan to convert, that was for sure, and my
family’s plan was that I was going to be in Voodoo. But there was a friend of my mine always
giving me advice and always telling me that the ways of God were so much better
than the way I was going.
I had always been doing voodoo things but when I left voodoo
to follow Jesus and shared that with my family, my father said he would not pay
for my schooling anymore. He was paying
for my house. Now he wouldn’t pay for the
house. I was homeless. And out of school. Following Jesus, alone.
I missed two years of schooling, bouncing around from
friends' house to friends' house just trying to survive. Finally, I settled in with one friend, and
his family helped me pay for school again. When it was time for high school, he
helped me pay for that, too. I was
incredibly poor, and worked very hard to finish school.
However, after high school, I once again had no one to help
me and no where to live.
For five years, I had nothing but my church. I was in
church, I sometimes lived in the church, and I was always working with people
there, working in a program they had there to teach people how to do
evangelism.
A group of friends and I started a Bible
study/accountability/prayer group called “Spiritual Backup.” I was studying the Bible a lot, because I had
nothing else to do, and a lot of things being taught at our church became clear
to me as not being what the Bible said.
As our group started pointing these things out, the church asked us to leave.
When they put us out, there was a member in the group who
started hosting our group in their house, and it was this person who said,
“Moliere, we need to send you to seminary for this group, so you can study more
and teach us better so we can know the truth of the Word from the world of
lies.”
The group all agreed, and came around me. They took an offering, and it was just enough
to sign up at Emmaus Biblical Seminary.
EBS gave me a bill, and each month, I take that bill to my group, and
together, we all pay it. Every week, we meet together 3 times, and I teach them
everything I learned that week at Emmaus. In this sense, there are 12 of us studying at Emmaus through me!
I want to go everywhere.
I want to hit all the mountains.
I want to make people know. I see
that there are so many people in the mountains that don’t know the truth, and
so many people still living in darkness, like my family, like I was, like even
my church was. I live right now in the home of the family who
hosts our “Spiritual Back-Up” group, and I want to continue to learn, continue
to share, and continue to step out on faith that He will provide!
THANK YOU!
Please pray for Moliere, and if partnering with him is something your church, family, small group or organization would like to do, please consider joining his team!
Give by mail: One Mission Society
PO Box 1648
Monument, CO 801320
MEMO: MOLIERE 365690
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