Haiti Nazarene Bible College experiences a year of firsts and largests

Haiti Nazarene Bible College received a record number of admission for the current school year leading to the largest freshman class in the history of the Diploma in Theology program. Eighteen students were accepted, and delightfully, all 18 have registered and are on-campus. This is the first time in 8 years that an entire class of accepted students have enrolled. Included in this group is our first ever female diploma student. Yanick Roseau was born in Haiti close to the campus and was involved in the Frère Church of the Nazarene when it shared facilities with HNBC. She moved to the United States as a young girl where she marriend and raised a family. Recently, she and her husband returned to Haiti as missionaries with an independant Baptist mission. Yanick has a B.A. degree in Buisness, but felt the need to deepen her Biblical and theological understanding in order to better serve in her new role as missionary.

Yanick is actually the second female student accepted this year. The other, Emma Ceneacque, graduated from Séminaire Théologique de Port-au-Prince with a Diploma in Theology. She transferred her credits and is enrolled in our Bachelor of Theology program. She joins 33 others enrolled in the program, creating the largest group of Bachelor’s students in the school’s history.

And as if that weren’t enough good news, four districts of the Church of the Nazarene in Haiti are preparing to kick-off their extention programs in the month of August. Special celebration services are planned on each district. The previous extention program was phased out in 2000, and an estimated 600 students are expected to participate in the new program when all 11 district-level programs are up and running.