Visiting pastor shares culture, testimony with local church

By Jessica Squires
First Posted: June 09, 2012 - 12:44 am
Last Updated: June 09, 2012 - 12:48 am

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Tribune photo by Aaron Piper / Seymour Harvest Church Pastor Gary W. Dyer, left and Christ Covenant Church Pastor Rick Prather, right, stand with Sanousse Orelus. Orelus has worked with Dyer and Prather in past years to do mission work in Haiti.

A pastor from Haiti shared culture and meals while also sharing his testimony during visit with a local church.

Pastor Sanouosse Orelus made a connection with Pastor Rick Prather of Christ Covenant Church in the summer of 2009 when Prather went to Haiti and spoke at Orelus’s church. Orelus came to Seymour this week to share his testimony and speak at Prather’s church. While in Seymour he also is staying and ministering with Pastor Gary W. Dyer of Seymour Harvest Church.

Orelus is from Petionville in Port au Prince, Haiti. His church is sandwiched in the middle of a highly poor residential area and, like many other churches in the area, also holds an orphanage and a school. Orelus said they try to provide as much as they can to the people in their neighborhood. Prather said that when he visited in 2009, it was clear that the demand was higher than was the ability to provide.

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