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| Claudy with some of his students |
How do you
transform a nation? S.T.E.P. seminary in
Port-au-Prince challenged their teachers to get involved personally in the
lives of their students to teach and model a biblical worldview. They are taking a new approach to equip
students to live as disciples of Christ and lead others to do the same. They are transforming students who will
transform churches.
Jean Mario
Michel is in his second year teaching financial management at S.T.E.P., and he
has wholeheartedly accepted this new course of action. He invited Claudy and another student home
for dinner where they informally discussed family relationships, discipleship
in the church and community, Christian faith, and engagement in ministry. They shared experiences from each of their
lives. This was just the beginning of
the discipleship program. Jean Mario
took the whole class to visit a pastor and see him at work. The pastor shared why he had come back to
Haiti to minister and the students asked him questions.
After this,
Claudy came to see Jean Mario at his office.
Claudy leads a primary school. Impressed
by the discipleship training at the seminary, he wanted to do something
similar. He plans that he and his
teaching staff can bring students home with them and take them other places to
influence them for Christ. Jean Mario
shared, “Claudy is passionate about it.
He expects to change the whole village he came from. Most are unchristian voodoo parents. He feels he can catch the parents through the
children.” This is multiplication. Principles learned at seminary are taught to
others by the students. Claudy shared,
“The idea is to influence children, young people, by making them become true
disciples for Christ with the power of the Holy Spirit.” This is how a country is changed heart by
heart and something we can all apply in our own sphere of influence.
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| Claudy |
