I am Sylvanie Donne Joseph but I am usually known simply as Sylvanie Joseph or Mrs Sylvanie.
I
was born in Mirebalais, Haiti, 35 years ago to a Christian family.
After
Christian elementary school, I completed my secondary education at Lycee Nationale,
and started my tertiary education at ODCOM where I became a registered nurse.
I
am an ordained pastor in the Emmanuel Baptist Church after graduating from Ohio
Bible School.
I am also a journalist graduated from Centre Haitian de Communication Port
au Prince.
Currently, I am in the second year of law school in Gonaives.
I am employed
with the Minister Condition Feminine et aux Droits des Femmes which means my job is to help abused
women and girls in Plateau Central.
My work never stops because of the ministry I have
with Frisnel Donne - my business partner and husband: my greatest supporter and sweetheart since we were teenagers.
What we have in the Emmanuel Baptist
de la Saintete ministry:
1- 22 affiliated churches (15 have
schools attached, 15 schools are elementary, 1 is secondary)
2- Each church has its own pastor (22)
plus deacons (22)
3- The overseeing pastors (Joseph and Donne)
conduct seminaries once a month for the 22 pastors and deacons
4- The overseeing pastors one crusade every
year
5- Orphans ministry, as many as 20 at a time come to live with us, we help around 300 to 400 a year
6- Prison ministry (take them food,
toilettes items, and present them the gospel) 2 times a year
7-Ministry for the disabled and
elderly: food, place to live, wheel chairs, healthcare
8-Ministry for abuse women: shelter, placement,
children’s school fees, business opportunities
9-Medical clinic: dispense medicines,
eye exams, dental, vaccination, prevention, nutrition
10-Wedding ministry: maintaining wedding outfits for brides and grooms for
reuse
11-Women conferences: focus groups for education, community sharing with
eating together, finding individual needs and providing donated clothes and
food for women during the year and on holidays.
12-Yearly 5-day live-in camp for children 2 to 18 years (VBS): these camps
are all inclusive with good cooked meals, football, volleyball, games and quiet
times with religious instruction and practice. This camp is free and open to
all children.
Would you like to help
us continue our mission of raising children and helping adults to know that we
are all born in the image of the Creator and all children have the right to
grow up healthy and educated. We are always looking for donations of supplies,
work, or cash, but we will continue even without donations. You are welcome to
visit us any time and my Great Father will bless you as the Bible say there is
more blessing for the one who give then the one who receive.
Sylvanie
Donne Joseph RN
