At this particular moment, I thought it would be a good idea to tell you about our brother and son, Yannick MATOMBE.<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nYannick is a foreign student of Congolese nationality (DRC), born on May 27, 2000, in Kinshasa. He left his native country in 2019 to travel far away from home to Morocco to pursue his higher education studies. Although the flight to Mohammed V in Morocco only took him just under eight hours, little did he know that he would paradoxically be embarking on a long spiritual and mental journey that would radically change the course of his life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yannick comes from a Christian family. His father is a committed Catholic who attended the Seminary aspiring to become a priest in his youth, and his mother is an evangelical Protestant, very faithful servant and working in the service of the Lord. From the age of 11, Yannick’s childhood was thrown into turmoil by his parents’ divorce. His father, who worked, struggled to find enough time to devote to a thorough family upbringing for him and his brother while their mother was away following the divorce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the age of 12, Yannick gave his life to the Lord. Ever since, he has dedicated his life as a young boy to sharing the good news of Jesus Christ to his classmates. Shortly afterwards, he experienced the unstable adolescence, not to mention a family situation that with economic\/financial hardships and the vicissitudes of life, which led him to question his life and lose faith. Between the ages of 17 and 19, he completely lost his zeal for the Lord. It was in this instability that Yannick arrived in Morocco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2020, during a Bible study cell held by the EEAM church in the house he shared with his roommates who then-serving in the church, he heard God’s voice again and repented. Soon, he began to develop a passion for the Holy Scriptures and questions relating to the Christian faith. Within a year, he also began serving in the youth department of the same church, later taking on the role of Team-Leader of the worship and prayer team.<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nWe’ve been living with Yannick since December 2023. Although his academic and religious progress were crystal clear over the years, we detected in Yannick a strong need to learn about family life. A life he had lost since the age of 10. Upon receiving other brothers and sisters in his situation, we realized that beyond the spiritual guidance that the ministry provides through preaching and prayer, young people in Morocco are also in dire need of emotional support. For most of them face loneliness when they leave their country, cut off from their families. Others, like Yannick, come from homes where the family has often experienced a great deal of instability. This is how God’s call to us to support these young people in every way, and especially on a familial standpoint. After talking to Yannick several times, I asked him to do a self-assessment for the period he\u2019s been living with us. In these words, he makes a brief statement of his own:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
”Being with you, I have the impression that God, during my 23-24 years, has decided to give me once again the chance to live under the roof of parents who exercise loving leadership, so that I could learn God’s love through the family. It’s a grace for me to see that there’s also hope for me, and I had to overcome the fear that I would later find a dysfunctional home by risking being an absent father, unable to deal with the clash between generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By being with you, I’ve learned to be open and hospitable, just as you are. I’ve learned patience and mutual understanding, as well as invaluable notions of breeding and farming. I’ve also learned a lot of practical things that someone can easily understand by being part of a family such as cooking, cleaning and certain notions of good manners and living together (common sense). I’ve also learned that in a family, love needs to be expressed in words as in deeds alone, as it has always been difficult for me to do so. I’ve learned to have deeper considerations for people of the opposite sex, and especially for the woman, who one day, will become my wife. I’ve learned that a well-balanced house prays together\u2014which was not taught to me while growing up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The truth is, I feel that despite my relationship with God, I had many ideas within me that would have led me to reproduce the same old\/broken patterns cultivated from the home in which I grew up; and God took pity on me by having you opened your arms to me. Words cannot really express how much these months by your side have influenced my vision for life and outlook for the future. I am infinitely grateful to you, to our Lord and the entire organization that has made it possible for you to come to us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yannick finished his studies in International Business<\/u><\/em> last June, and we were there to help him with his final year project, where the instructors fully praised his education and gave us the same consideration as his biological parents. This is what we strive to do for all young people. Now, he aspires to start his professional career once he gets back home to build stability, and then embark on in agriculture. Beyond that, he also dreams of pursuing serious theological studies to proclaim the good news of God’s love in Jesus Christ to the nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n May God keep us!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pastor Mputu Clement<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mission Co-Worker with the Evangelical Church in Morocco <\/p>\n\n\n\n Red\u00e9couvrir la Famille et la Foi : Le Parcours de Yannick Matombe au Maroc
Pour cette histoire p\u00e9riodique, Il m\u2019a paru bon de vous parler de notre fr\u00e8re et fils dans la foi, Yannick MATOMBE.
Yannick est un \u00e9tudiant \u00e9tranger de nationalit\u00e9 congolaise (DRC), n\u00e9 le 27 mai, en 2000, \u00e0 Kinshasa. Il a quitt\u00e9 son pays natal en 2019 pour entreprendre un voyage loin de chez lui vers le Maroc pour des raisons d\u2019\u00e9tudes. Bien que le vol en avion \u00e0 destination de Mohammed V au Maroc ne lui ait pris qu\u2019un peu moins de huit heures, il \u00e9tait loin de se douter qu\u2019il entreprendrait paradoxalement un long voyage spirituel et mental qui changerait radicalement le cours de sa vie.
Yannick est issu d\u2019une famille chr\u00e9tienne. Son p\u00e8re est un fervent catholique qui a fait le s\u00e9minaire en aspirant devenir pr\u00eatre dans sa jeunesse et sa m\u00e8re est une protestante \u00e9vang\u00e9lique, tr\u00e8s fervente dans sa foi et oeuvrant dans le service du Seigneur. Du haut de ses 11 ans, l\u2019enfance de Yannick connait un d\u00e9s\u00e9quilibre familial suite au divorce de ses parents. Son p\u00e8re qui travaillait beaucoup peinait \u00e0 trouver du temps suffisant \u00e0 consacrer \u00e0 une \u00e9ducation familiale approfondie \u00e0 son petit-fr\u00e8re et lui pendant que leur m\u00e8re \u00e9tait loin d\u2019eux suite au divorce.
\u00c0 12 ans, Yannick donne sa vie au Seigneur. Depuis, il d\u00e9die sa vie de jeune gar\u00e7on \u00e0 partager la bonne nouvelle de J\u00e9sus-Christ \u00e0 ses camarades de classe. Peu apr\u00e8s, il traverse les turbulences de l\u2019adolescence avec son lot de confusions, sans compter la situation familiale qui d\u00e9g\u00e9n\u00e8re tant sur le plan financier que relationnel et les vicissitudes de la vie qui l\u2019emm\u00e8neront \u00e0 des questionnements le conduisant \u00e0 perdre sa foi. Entre ses 17 ans et 19 ans, il perd compl\u00e8tement son z\u00e8le pour le Seigneur. C\u2019est dans cet \u00e9tat que Yannick est arriv\u00e9 au Maroc.
En 2020, lors d\u2019une cellule d\u2019\u00e9tude biblique tenue par l\u2019\u00e9glise EEAM dans la maison qu\u2019il partageait avec ses colocataires servant d\u00e9j\u00e0 \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9glise, il entend de nouveau la voix de Dieu et se repent. Bient\u00f4t, il se mit \u00e0 d\u00e9velopper une passion pour les saintes \u00e9critures et les questions relatives \u00e0 la foi chr\u00e9tienne. Dans l\u2019ann\u00e9e qui suivra, il se mit \u00e9galement \u00e0 servir dans la jeunesse de la m\u00eame \u00e9glise, pour ensuite occuper le r\u00f4le de responsable l\u2019\u00e9quipe d\u2019intercession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00c9tant \u00e9tudiant en Commerce international, Yannick a demand\u00e9 asile au presbyt\u00e8re car pour sa derni\u00e8re ann\u00e9e de Master, il avait besoin d\u2019un logement proche du lieu o\u00f9 il devait passer son stage de fin d\u2019\u00e9tudes. La distance lui pesait beaucoup en plus de son loyer, sans compter que \u00e7a lui demanderait des frais de transport tr\u00e8s cons\u00e9quents. Nous l\u2019avions donc re\u00e7u avec plaisir. Non pas seulement comme une personne ayant besoin d\u2019un logement, mais surtout comme un fils qui, plus que d\u2019un simple logement, avait besoin d\u2019encadrement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
C\u2019est depuis d\u00e9cembre 2023 que nous vivons avec Yannick jusqu\u2019\u00e0 ce jour. Bien qu\u2019au fil des ann\u00e9es, ses progr\u00e8s acad\u00e9miques et eccl\u00e9siaux se soient r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9s \u00e9vidents, nous avons d\u00e9cel\u00e9 en Yannick un fort besoin d\u2019apprendre ce qu\u2019est la vie en famille. Une vie qu\u2019il avait perdu depuis ses 10 ans. En recevant d\u2019autres fr\u00e8res et soeurs dans son cas, nous avons compris qu\u2019au-del\u00e0 de l\u2019accompagnement spirituel que le minist\u00e8re fournit \u00e0 travers la pr\u00e9dication de la parole et la pri\u00e8re, les jeunes au Maroc ont aussi \u00e9norm\u00e9ment besoin de soutient affectif et \u00e9motionnel. Car la plupart d\u2019entre eux font face \u00e0 la solitude en quittant leur pays, \u00e9tant coup\u00e9s de leur famille. D\u2019autres encore, dans le cas de Yannick, viennent des foyers o\u00f9 la famille a souvent connu beaucoup d\u2019instabilit\u00e9s. C\u2019est ainsi que
Dieu nous met \u00e0 coeur d\u2019encadrer ces jeunes \u00e0 tous points de vue, et particuli\u00e8rement sur le plan familial. Apr\u00e8s m\u2019\u00eatre entretenu plusieurs fois avec Yannick, je lui ai demand\u00e9 de faire une \u00e9valuation de sa personne depuis qu\u2019il vit avec nous. C\u2019est en ces mots qu\u2019il fait lui-m\u00eame une br\u00e8ve d\u00e9claration :
\u2018\u2019En \u00e9tant avec vous, j\u2019ai l\u2019impression que Dieu, du haut de mes 23-24 ans, a d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de me donner \u00e0 nouveau la chance de vivre sous le toit des parents qui exercent un leadership d\u2019amour, afin de m\u2019apprendre l\u2019amour de Dieu \u00e0 travers la famille. C\u2019est une gr\u00e2ce pour moi de constater qu\u2019il y a aussi de l\u2019espoir pour moi et qu\u2019il me fallait surmonter la peur de moi-m\u00eame fonder plus tard un foyer dysfonctionnel en risquant d\u2019\u00eatre un p\u00e8re absent, incapable de g\u00e9rer le choc entre les g\u00e9n\u00e9rations.
En \u00e9tant avec vous, j\u2019ai appris \u00e0 \u00eatre ouvert et hospitalier un peu comme vous l\u2019\u00eates vous-m\u00eame. J\u2019ai appris la patience et la compr\u00e9hension mutuelle, mais aussi des pr\u00e9cieuses notions en \u00e9levage et en agriculture. J\u2019ai appris \u00e0 m\u2019am\u00e9liorer dans un tas de choses pratiques que l\u2019on apprend le plus ais\u00e9ment dans une famille comme la cuisine, le m\u00e9nage, et certaines notions li\u00e9es aux bonnes mani\u00e8res et \u00e0 la vie commune. J\u2019ai aussi appris que dans la famille, l\u2019amour a autant besoin d\u2019\u00eatre exprim\u00e9 en paroles qu\u2019en actes uniquement, car il m\u2019a toujours \u00e9t\u00e9 difficile de le faire. J\u2019ai appris \u00e0 accorder une consid\u00e9ration plus profonde aux personnes de sexe oppos\u00e9 et particuli\u00e8rement pour celle qui un jour deviendra mon \u00e9pouse. J\u2019ai appris qu\u2019une maison \u00e9quilibr\u00e9e prie ensemble, et \u00e7a n\u2019avait longtemps pas \u00e9t\u00e9 le cas en grandissant chez moi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
La v\u00e9rit\u00e9 c\u2019est que je sens que j\u2019avais en moi, malgr\u00e9 ma relation avec Dieu, beaucoup d\u2019id\u00e9es qui m\u2019auraient conduit \u00e0 reproduire le m\u00eame sch\u00e9ma d\u00e9fectueux du foyer dans lequel j\u2019ai grandi, et Dieu a eu piti\u00e9 de moi en vous mettant \u00e0 coeur de m\u2019ouvrir vos bras. Les mots ne sauraient \u00eatre suffisants pour r\u00e9ellement exprimer combien ces mois \u00e0 vos c\u00f4t\u00e9s ont influenc\u00e9 ma vision de la vie et m\u00eame mes perspectives pour le futur. Je vous suis infiniment reconnaissant \u00e0 vous, ainsi qu\u2019\u00e0 notre Seigneur et \u00e0 toute l\u2019organisation qui a permis votre chemin jusqu\u2019\u00e0 nous.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yannick a termin\u00e9 ses \u00e9tudes en Commerce International en juin dernier, et nous avons \u00e9t\u00e9 l\u2019assister lors de la soutenance de son projet de fin d\u2019\u00e9tudes o\u00f9 les professeurs nous ont fait beaucoup d\u2019\u00e9loges sur son \u00e9ducation, nous donnant une consid\u00e9ration \u00e0 la hauteur de ses parents biologiques. C\u2019est ce que nous nous effor\u00e7ons de faire pour tous les jeunes. En ce moment, il aspire \u00e0 commencer sa carri\u00e8re professionnelle une fois de retour au pays pour se b\u00e2tir une stabilit\u00e9, puis se lancer \u00e0 entreprendre en agriculture. Au-del\u00e0 de \u00e7a, il r\u00eave aussi ardemment de poursuivre des s\u00e9rieuses \u00e9tudes en Th\u00e9ologie par la suite afin proclamer la bonne nouvelle l\u2019amour de Dieu en J\u00e9sus-Christ aux nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Que Dieu nous garde
Pasteur Mputu Cl\u00e9ment
Missionnaire au sein de l\u2019Eglise Evang\u00e9lique au Maroc (EEAM)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"