This is it.

I can still remember exactly where we were standing in our itty-bitty government housing apartment in Wilmore, KY, one phone pressed to both our ears, when Dr. Bill Cooper, the president of Emmaus Biblical Seminary at the time, asked us to join Emmaus in Haiti. He talked about the classes we'd be teaching, the ways God might use us, the biggest needs of EBS.

And at the top of the list was the long-time dream of accreditation. Bill shared with us just a brief version of the long-road ahead, which the past fifteen years has consumed thousands of hours. Obtaining a 501c3, licenses and government endorsement...moving from a notebook of scrawls to a complex QuickBooks system of accounting...creating employee contracts, application processes, hiring and firing policies, student and staff handbooks, greatly expanding the library, health codes, work codes, food prep codes, fire codes, forms upon forms, policies upon policies, standards. HIGH standards. BEST practice standards. And then some.

To be an accredited seminary would not only make EBS the ONLY accredited seminary in the country of Haiti, but it would be GOOD for our students, GOOD for our staff, GOOD for our partners, GOOD for this beloved country.

So many have worked, and Matt in particular has championed tediously, monotonously, continuously, scrutinizingly, painfully, unfailingly, in French and in English and in Haitian Creole, to prepare and change and create and form and evaluate and cut and build and push Emmaus up and up and up the rocky road, for His glory. 

And this is it. 

This week, today, six members of the Caribbean Evangelical Theological Association arrive to poke and prod and evaluate and interview and examine. This week, the pause on the road after over a DECADE of work finally comes...and so I implore you, faithful ones, pause for a minute with us and lift Emmaus up to our Holy God who knows and sees and walks with us and is able. 

Pray for His grace upon grace, pray for clarity, pray for good process, pray for Emmaus, pray that our very utmost for His Very Highest might be bared and above reproach and met not only with the approval of man, but HIS.