My journey and my testimony

• 2018 – today Transform, CEO

• 2015 – 2018 Génération Espérance (Hope Generation), CEO
Charitable work and evangelism among the homeless people, Caen

• 2011 – 2014 Founder of the Samedis Solidaires Ministry,
Announcement of the Gospel, spiritual and human support for the homeless and those in need, Gospel Church

• 2011 – 2014 Team member and Worship Leader, Gospel Church

• 2009 – 2011 Member of the founding team, Côté Coeur
Shelter for the homeless and people in need in Montpellier

• 2008 – 2009 Support, Community of Celle
Community of Life and Hospitality in Roquedur

• 2006 – 2009 Team member, TCHAAP, Christian collective

I was born in Beaujolais in a « semi-catholic » family to a Catholic mother and a Catholic father, who, in his youth, became an atheist and then came back to the Christian faith afterwards.

One evening in 2003, I was touched by God who gave me the gift of faith.

Even if I would regularly be practicing in the Catholic Church, I never really experienced my faith as a presence and an unshakeable belief.

That evening changed my life.

For the first time, I truly experienced God’s presence. That night, I no longer believed in Him only on an intellectual level or from my own strength but by a supernatural grace. I understood and experienced that God loves me and carries me.

This gift of faith, written in me, has never left me since that day.

The same year, my father came back to the Christian faith and together we would often go to Taizé, an ecumenical Christian community and ministry that lead my first steps to my conversion of heart and that I still enjoy today.

A year later, I decided to join a small Catholic seminary, the Foyer Marcel Van in Ars-sur-Formans. I lived a rich and intense year there, especially through community life and the evangelical prayer that we call silent worship at the Throne of Grace. Today the prayer of silent contemplation is at the centre of my life of faith, face to face with Christ to let him speak to me and write His words of life in my heart.

After this time, I got involved in different youth groups like Scouts and world youth day where I collaborated and participated in different projects.

Later, I discovered the Evangelical Protestant faith through various events, especially at the Evangelical Church of Pentecost in Villefranche-sur-Saone.

I greatly appreciate these different encounters and feel more in tune with this expression of faith and the Evangelical Protestant theology, particularly in regard to salvation: men are saved by faith and grace alone.

Salvation is a free gift offered by a loving God.

I also have a deep love for Catholic Christians and a profound respect for the path I have walked with this Church.

Then comes another stage of my life from 17 to 20 years old. A stage which combines curiosity, a thirst for discovery and a sort of search for universality.

I am very interested in Rastafarianism, even modelling my lifestyle on this spirituality. At 18, I buy a camper van and start traveling while working as a seasonal worker. I discover and spend a bit of time with different groups such as travellers, hippies and punks. I visit Buddhist monasteries, I am interested in pioneer books from different religions. I meet Krishnaites and also practice with them.

I practiced a kind of syncretism. However, I was not satisfied in this search for universality. I thought I would find Christ in these different religions, but I was drawing further away from Him.

Rastas believe in Haile Selassie as the return of Christ but he was an Ethiopian Orthodox Coptic Christian and always claimed in his lifetime that he was not Jesus.

Most forms of Buddhism do not recognise the existence of a creator God, thus excluding the loving relationship that God seeks to create with men.

The Krishnaites recognise Jesus as a great spiritual master but do not believe that He is the incarnation of God.

Deep down, nothing could take away my faith in Jesus nor his presence. In fact, when God gave me the gift of faith, He also sent the Spirit of His Son into me! As the Bible states, “Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, » Abba ! Father !” (Galatians 4: 6).

I concretely experienced the fact that Jesus is the only way that leads to God the Father as the Bible says: “Jesus answered: I am the way, and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14: 6)

The universality of God’s love for all human beings is manifested in Jesus who, offering salvation to the world, is the hope of the nations.

In 2008, I am consciously baptised in the Community of Celle.

There is no deeper joy than to know God’s love for us and to be in communion with Him !