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Born on Christmas morning,
named by her father as Emmanuel, until his wife informed him
that the new baby was not a boy. At the age of 15, Emmanuela
left the country home where the family lived to finish her
education at a trade school in the Capitol city of Haiti, Port
of Prince. Later she secured a job with a division of (UPI)
United Press International, a news gathering agency. There she
met Sandra Singer and Serge Beaulieu, who unofficially adopted
her as their daughter. (She was too old for legal adoption).
Seeing her skills and natural business savvy, for her 18th
birthday they gave her the gift of coming to the United States
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They knew that in America she would have the
opportunity to reach her professional potential. Her first job
in New York City was with CNS news, covering the United
Nations. While there she also became involved as a translator
between English and French languages. Although her job was
very time consuming, she still found time to help out with the
children’s ministry at her church. She had tenderness in her
heart for orphans, having lost her own parents. Her heart’s
desire was to gather her scattered siblings and bring them all
together in America. The well-meaning advice from her adult
mentors was to keep looking forward, save yourself first.
Emmanuela knew they had no clue of the depth of her
homesickness for her siblings. One way or another she was
determined to reunite her family. | |
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made her way to Hollywood via
International Model and Talent Association (IMTA) where she won Model & Talent
of the Year in 1998. TV-Commercial Real. This resulted in an acting contract with
Universal Studios. As she was preparing to sign the contract,
she could hear the still small voice of her Lord saying, “This
is not the way I have planned for you.” She obeyed, put down
her pen, picked up her suitcase and headed back to the East
Coast.
While she was making a comfortable living, she was
sending money back to Haiti to help her siblings survive. |
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The Lord gave Emmanuela a vision for ministering to the inner
city children of Providence with clothes, food, tutoring,
etc., but she also wanted to provide for her own siblings. Her
first reaction to His call to this ministry was that she was
happy to do the work, but she did not want to try to establish
an organization.
However, God reminded her that “helping her
family, was only part of her mission. True love is when you
give sacrificially to people who will never be able to pay you
back.” This gave birth to "Help for the Children, Inc.", a ministry
run entirely by faith, trusting in the same God that
faithfully provided for all her needs, day by day.
In the
beginning of 2003, Emmanuela was given the okay from the Lord
to bring her five younger siblings to America to help her run
this ministry, which clearly needed more people if it was to
grow. |
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