Jacquline's Damascus Road Experience

Jacquelin an ex voodoo witch doctor in Pignon. I first met him in September 2008. When I heard there was a witch doctor living next door to the mission house, I had to go meet him. It is a wonderful story on how he was saved from a life of voodoo and sin. Jacquline was saved that day and though life has been hard for him, his wife, and three children living in a little 8' by 8' mud hut he has not given up his faith in Christ. He gave me a rooster the morning I was heading back to the states as a gesture of gratitude. Jacquelin and I remain friends to this day. It thrills my soul every time I make it up his way seeing his face radiate knowing I brought to him a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ while everyone else shunned him because he was a witch doctor. May we never forget the words of the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 6:9-11.

    I decided to take Jacquline with me to share his conversion to Christ with Augustine. Little did I know they knew each other from Voodoo conferences held around Haiti. I had never heard Jacquline's testimony before this day. As Jacquline began to share how God brought him to understand the truth and a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, a chicken that was tied behind me (to be used in a ceremony later on) jumped to the back of my neck driving its claws into my skin, violently pecking my head, and squawking as loud as it could. I knew then satan did not want the light to be shared inside that voodoo hut or for Augustine to be saved. That is a true story.  

     Jacquline told Augustine; " you know me, you know what I used to be like and what I have done." Jacquline continued; " I was down at the river bathing and God showed me in a vision how a blah, white man, was going to come visit me with a Bible and show me how to be saved. Within 20 minutes, my son came running to the river saying papa papa a blah is at the house with a Bible and wants to meet you. I came running home, embraced  Monsieur Dean and he shared the Word of God with me and as tears began to well up in my eyes. I repented of my sins and accepted Jesus as Savior.  God did exactly what was told to me."

   That was the very first time I had been to Pignon, Haiti and the first time I had ever laid eyes on Jacquline. Within one hour of being in Pignon, I was leading a witch doctor to the Lord. That was when The LORD spoke to my heart revealing to me in part the beginning of my calling. I was told by a lay pastor at the Bell Ministry how everyone in the community shuned Jacquline because he was a witch doctor. Now everyone is rejoicing because he is a Christian. With God all things are possible Mathew 19:25-26.