Abandoned by his father and left alone by his hardworking, single mother, Napoleon turned to the streets for acceptance and belonging. He eventually slipped into substance abuse and criminal activity. Deep down he knew his choices were destroying him, but he couldn’t break free.
One day, a street evangelist came to the corner where Napoleon and his friends gathered. Looking him in the eye, the man said, “God has a purpose for your life.” Napoleon dismissed the idea. God wouldn’t care about someone like me, he thought.
But the Lord kept drawing him. On that same corner—the place where he once drank and used drugs—Napoleon surrendered his life to Christ.
From the moment he believed, he knew that if God could save him, he could save anyone. That conviction pushed him toward ministry, and he enrolled in ABWE’s Institute for Church Planters, where he received the training he needed to shepherd others and plant a church in his community.
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