One of the strategies we are using in Haiti is to tell as many pastors and school directors in Haiti about how they can use soccer as a tool for evangelism. This is important because we are trying to build a movement in Haiti that will start growing on its own as Christian leaders see the value of sports in Christian education and also for evangelism. To this end I was thrilled when one of the leaders of the Conservative Baptist Church in Haiti invited me to speak to a group of about 150 pastors about a month ago. I only shared for 10 minutes, but apparently God was moving in the hearts of a few pastors who heard my message.
I followed up on this meeting by offering a 2-hour seminar on sports evangelism at STEP, one of the best theological seminaries in Haiti on April 11th.
I used text-messages to inform those pastors and seminary students who gave me their phone numbers about the training and much to my surprise, four pastors from 4 different Conservative Baptist churches came to the seminar from an area called Anse Rouge. We had passed through this area last week on our trip to the North-Ouest department of Haiti and it is a very rough and remote area! They paid their own way to come and they said they were glad they did because they really learned a lot at the seminar. Afterwards we talked for 30 minutes about how to implement the strategy in their area and I offered to train 6 of their leaders at a training we are going to have in May. (More on this later!)
In addition 2 other pastors came from that one meeting as well along with about 25 STEP students.
So we praise God that we were able to help these Christian leaders think about different ways to present the Gospel to people in their communities!
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