Pierre Mario Agustave

Introduction

My name is Mario Augustave, the third of five children. As the middle child, I always felt the responsibility of keeping things balanced around the house and the playground. I belong to a very large family of males. My grandfather worked for the government of Haiti. He was often transferred from department to another. His wife, my grandmother had eleven boys and one girl. My father had six boys and one girl. I have three boys.

I became a Seventh-day Adventist when I was twelve years old. It was very difficult to experience since I was the only “protestant” in the family.; as a result, I was briefly put out of the house for getting baptized soon after joining the church. Though a Catholic, my mother, was a praying woman who taught me to fear God and to use prayer as the tool to connecting with God. By the time my older brother and I immigrated in-to the United States at the age of 16, he and many of my relatives in Haiti had already became Adventists.

Philosophy

Life is meaningful only when I have learnt to love as He loved to forgive as He forgave and to see all things form His perspective.

Mission

My plan when I became a minister years ago was never to become the most popular Pastor in the Adventist church but I rather to make a positive contribution to the building up of God’s kingdom. For me, it is not just about the title but rather to become schooled, competent an apathetic with every individual young or old that I meet. Currently my im-mediate goal is to earn my doctorate degree and become better equip to minister to this world in a way that they could understand and to become the kind of minister and leader that will touch the lives of people that I come across for the better; educating them not only of godliness and godliness but about the joys and meaning of life here on earth swell. I strongly believe when I become better schooled in the wisdom of this world better prepared to promote the cause of the kingdom of Jesus Christ and to speak to the world in a language that they can understand and appreciate.

Today I am ready for new challenges and I believe that a Bi-lingual doctoral degree in Business Administration with emphasis on Human resources I will be uniquely position to serve God and better skillfully prepared to promote and to strengthen the church in its attempt to both strengthen the feeble hands and to make the Gospel of Jesus Christ more appealing to a skeptic world.

Vision

I envision a world where compassion and the needs of others becomes as important as the knowledge of prophecies.

My years working with the vulnerable population of New York, who are unfortunately ad-dicted to illicit substance and those who are mentally challenged have taught me of God’s compassion and His and the full teaching of His statement in Matthew 25:31-41. These vulnerable groups of society carry the heavy burden of rejection and discrimination, stand in great need of compassion and love. Something that is being held from them even from the Christian community. I see my role as a minister of the gospel as a God given responsibility to do more than speaking behind a pulpit but a challenge. Ellen White’s statement from Ministry of Healing has proven to be crucial for today’s church. “Christ’s method alone will give true success in reaching the people. The Savior mingled with men as one who desired their good. He showed His sympathy for them, ministered to their needs, and won their confidence. Then He bade them, ‘Follow Me.’” . . . “Accompanied by the power of persuasion, the power of prayer, the power of the love of God, this work will not, cannot, be without fruit” (The Ministry of Healing, pp. 143, 144).