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The Haitian proverb above means that a son is just like his father. We would say “The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.”
As I have become like a Father to many of my Haitian leaders, it gives me great joy when, on their own, they begin to put into practice the things they have learned from us.
Recently we had the privilege of being invited to attend the final game of a week-long U-15 tournament in the Artibonite valley. As you may recall, this is the area where we started a pilot project last year and started soccer teams at eight UEBH Christian schools.
Wattnec Milfort, the president of the local committee we organized to work with these eight schools has enthusiastically embraced our strategy of using soccer to share the Gospel with young Haitians throughout the Artibonite valley. In fact, on his own, he organized a tournament and just asked us to help him with the evangelism at the final game.
Wattnec raised the funds, motivated the teams to participate, hired the referees, and did everything make the tournament a success, both physically and spiritually. He also did not do it alone. Following what we taught him about the importance of forming a committee and delegating responsibilities, he called upon several other members of the local committee that we had trained to help him.
The soccer results were that his team made it to the final game and lost in a heart-breaking penalty shoot-out.
The spiritual results were that 270 people filled out response cards, 17 people indicated they trusted Christ, 55 asked for more information before trusting Christ, 51 were already Christians, 59 said they would like to be involved in a Bible study, and 46 asked for prayer.
In addition, we gave out 3 Bibles as prizes and over 300 tracts to the spectators. PTL!!
As I have become like a Father to many of my Haitian leaders, it gives me great joy when, on their own, they begin to put into practice the things they have learned from us.
Recently we had the privilege of being invited to attend the final game of a week-long U-15 tournament in the Artibonite valley. As you may recall, this is the area where we started a pilot project last year and started soccer teams at eight UEBH Christian schools.
Wattnec Milfort, the president of the local committee we organized to work with these eight schools has enthusiastically embraced our strategy of using soccer to share the Gospel with young Haitians throughout the Artibonite valley. In fact, on his own, he organized a tournament and just asked us to help him with the evangelism at the final game.
Wattnec raised the funds, motivated the teams to participate, hired the referees, and did everything make the tournament a success, both physically and spiritually. He also did not do it alone. Following what we taught him about the importance of forming a committee and delegating responsibilities, he called upon several other members of the local committee that we had trained to help him.
The soccer results were that his team made it to the final game and lost in a heart-breaking penalty shoot-out.
The spiritual results were that 270 people filled out response cards, 17 people indicated they trusted Christ, 55 asked for more information before trusting Christ, 51 were already Christians, 59 said they would like to be involved in a Bible study, and 46 asked for prayer.
In addition, we gave out 3 Bibles as prizes and over 300 tracts to the spectators. PTL!!
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