{"id":22915,"date":"2024-03-21T07:00:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T11:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.namb.net\/send-network\/?post_type=resource&#038;p=22915"},"modified":"2024-03-20T13:37:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T17:37:34","slug":"god-births-a-church-through-cherys-family-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"resource","link":"https:\/\/www.namb.net\/send-network\/resource\/god-births-a-church-through-cherys-family-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"God births a church through Chery\u2019s family Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Noelson &amp; Edna Chery: Taking Care of the Kids\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/883808182?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>To the untrained ear, Noelson and Edna Chery\u2019s Philadelphia home might sound like a modern-day Tower of Babel. Noelson and Edna are Haitian immigrants who grew up speaking Creole and French. And while their three sons are fluent in their parents\u2019 languages, they\u2019re most comfortable speaking English. Unsurprisingly, conversations in the Chery home frequently switch from one language to another.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s this linguistic mashup that God used to birth a church. Here\u2019s how it happened.<\/p>\n<p>Like most Christian parents, Noelson and Edna wanted to raise their boys to know and follow after Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why we were always in church,\u201d Edna says. \u201cI taught Sunday School, and my husband was a youth director. But the churches we were in, often the children were neglected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Edna says \u201cneglected\u201d, she means this: when the Cherys arrived in Philadelphia, they found good, strong Haitian congregations. But those churches worshipped in Creole. For families like the Cherys, whose children were living Monday-Saturday in an English-speaking world, that was a problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything was done in Creole, whether the kids could speak it or not,\u201d says Noelson. \u201cThat created frustration for the youth, and we didn\u2019t want our kids to come to church and just sleep. So that\u2019s why we began to pray and ask God, \u2018How could this be done differently?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, the best answer to a question is the simplest answer. That\u2019s where the Cherys began\u2014with something simple.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never said, \u2018We\u2019re going to start a church,\u2019\u201d Noelson says. \u201cWe just started a Bible study here at home with our kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From simple beginnings come great things. When word got out what the Cherys were doing, something completely unexpected happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t invite him, but one parent was just passing by when we were in the middle of doing Bible study with our kids,\u201d Edna says. \u201cAnd he said, \u2018Oh, you guys have a Bible study?\u2019 And then he totally spread the word and families started to come. Our street was filled with cars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The next and final step seemed almost obvious and natural.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople were coming and saying, \u2018If we are bringing our kids to Bible study, why don\u2019t we just have church for everybody?\u2019\u201d Edna says. \u201cWe could see they wanted this. And we couldn\u2019t say no because I guess they saw something that we were able to give that they couldn\u2019t find in our area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>First Haitian Metanoia Baptist Church was born in August, 2020. It\u2019s a congregation that\u2019s different from almost every other congregation in the Chery\u2019s community, because not only do they worship and preach the gospel in a language children can understand and embrace\u2014but they also give young people unique opportunities to participate in ministry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t say, \u2018Kids are the church of tomorrow if that tomorrow ever comes,\u2019\u201d Noelson says. \u201cNo, the youth are a part of everything we do right now. They sing, they lead, they\u2019re even being trained to preach. God is still raising generations. And it\u2019s amazing to see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Chery\u2019s church-planting work in Philadelphia is supported by generous gifts to the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering.<\/em> <em>To learn more about their story and to discover how you and your church can support church planting and compassion ministry all across North America, visit\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.namb.net\/send-network\/resources\/annie-armstrong-easter-offering-for-church-planters\/\"><em>FueledByAnnie.com<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the untrained ear, Noelson and Edna Chery\u2019s Philadelphia home might sound like a modern-day Tower &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.namb.net\/send-network\/resource\/god-births-a-church-through-cherys-family-bible-study\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">God births a church through Chery\u2019s family Bible study<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22916,"template":"","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"content-type":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"tags":[],"channels":[],"topics":[],"languages":[],"class_list":["post-22915","resource","type-resource","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","resource_type-article"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.0 (Yoast SEO v24.0) - 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