Pastor Dicksent’s Testimony

A True Testimony

I am Pastor Dicksent, raised by a Canadian step-father. I graduated  from college and I speak several languages. I have obtained certificates as: Social Worker, Leadership and Management, Human Rights, Body Guard.  I am married and the father of 2 boys, ages 5 and 13. I adopted 2 girls almost the same age.  I have also adopted 3 more boys that I found abandoned on the street. They are all under 7 years old.

I used to be a party man, involved in voodoo and other bad things.  When I first met Major Dave Young, I was unemployed and he asked me to be his assistant.  We worked almost a year together.  I learned a lot from Major Young but I always put the Lord Jesus Christ aside.  After Major Young left Haiti, he was still in contact with me and he was always talking to me about Jesus and telling me to stay away from the voodoo.  On my way to Cap Haitian, I was involved in a car accident and 90% of the passengers were killed.  I was severely injured.  I was paralyzed, I could not move.  The doctor even told my wife that I would never be able to walk again.  However, the Lord Jesus Christ sent another doctor to me named Johnny who made another diagnosis.  He said that I had a chance to walk again but I had to go to the Dominican Republic for the surgery.  I was happy and sad at the same time – happy that I would be able to walk again but sad because I did not know where to find the money for the operation.  Then I called Major Young and his wife and explained to them the situation.  They gave me back a chance to walk. While I was recovering, Major Young asked someone in Haiti that he knew to bring me a Bible.  I started to read it and I found how much God loves me and that he even gave His own Son to sacrifice His life to save mine.  It was then that I decided to accept Jesus as my personal Savior and live only to please Him.

After all I’ve being through, I decided with my pastor to continue what Jesus was doing when He was on the earth.  I started with a small school for the kids who cannot go to school, then with HELPING FOR CHRIST as a mission to help the poor people and to tell them about Jesus.

My dream is to for HELPING FOR CHRIST to help the people in my community.  They are counting on me to help them.  HELPING FOR CHRIST is the only organization that the poor people trust now.  We are not only working to feed them, educate them, and give them shelter.  The most important thing that we do for them is we tell them that the Lord Jesus Christ loves them and is preparing a place for them in paradise to be with Him.

Pastor Dicksent

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Post Earthquake

As you can well imagine, Pastor Dicksent has faced the biggest challenge of his life since the devastating earthquake.  Yet, relentlessly he continues his labor of love for 300 Haitians who look to him as their Pastor and shepherd.  He leads them, teaches them by example, and makes sure each one has had the best chance of survival through the tragic circumstances.

Most of all, however, Pastor Dicksent has been an inspiration to everyone who knows him.  His faith in God has sustained him through unimaginable obstacles which would cause most to give up and walk away.  With his own wife facing life-and-death health issues, watching children he dearly loves endure the pain and horror of amputation and subsequent infections, having doors literally shut in his face by other NGO’s refusing to offer assistance … his faith remains strong as he trusts in the Lord Jesus Christ to make a way in the midst of it all.

Immediately after the earthquake, Pastor Dicksent rallied the children together, along with surviving parents, staff members, and close associates, and has led them through a literal wilderness.  Although it may appear as if he’s not making much progress, it is only because the spiritual warfare continues to grow in intensity.  His primary goal is that the 300 people at Camp Victory remain victorious in Jesus Christ as they survive on strength that can only come from the Lord.

The testimony of Pastor Dicksent only skims the top of the work God has done in this man’s life.  We hope one day soon his story can be written in detail because the fingerprints of God are brilliantly visible in this one servant’s life, mission, and ministry.

Dave Young, Executive Director
Heart of God Haiti