Assembly of El Shaddai has founded on a call from God revealed to Brother Sony Augustine.  

 

Mr. Sony Augustin, who is today the Chief Pastor of this Church, was born in 1972 in Camp-Perrin, a province of southern Haiti, a non-Christian family. Like his father, he practiced the challenge with admiration. Mr. Augustin was an active politician.

 

After the fall of the dictator Jean Claude Duvalier, he supported the presidential candidate Jean Bertrand Aristide (Father Titid) in 1990.   After the coup of 29 September 1991 against President Jean Bertrand Aristide, his supporters began to flee and to go underground because of threats from the former Duvalierist regime.  

 

Thus, in 1994 Mr. Augustin had managed to reach the American embassy in Haiti where he was seeking and receiving political asylum. Upon his arrival in the United States in 1994, he was sent to the state of Connecticut, the state he had called his home since. It was God's plan for him. Soon after arriving in Connecticut, he had come to realize the beauty of Christianity was quite special. The people of the Church were more courteous than the others. Their styles were simple, their mutual behavior was purely fraternal. One night, he was in a dream in which he was handcuffed by a character because of an argument.  

 

later, he married Sister Gertrude and began teaching Sunday school. At the beginning of 2002, God called him to establish a church in Hartford. He responded positively to the call of God and went to SometimeMr. Sony Augustine asked for his release, saying: If you release me, I will accept the gospel and spread the good news of Jesus Christ.   From that moment on, he thought it was a sign that he gave his whole life to God. So he responded favorably to God's call. Thus, in 1995 he accepted Jesus Christ as his personal savior and became a member of the Missionary Baptist Church of Hartford. pastoral formation.

 

  In 2003, Brother Sony Augustin and his family decided to leave the Missionary Baptist Church of Hartford to join the Community Grace Center. To find the said Church was not a coincidence, because he was studying in a formation center of the Church of God. It was better for him. There he had the opportunity to do internships.

 

In 2004 brother Sony Augustin received his ministerial diploma. He continued to serve the Church as Pastor, in collaboration with the Rev. Jean Russell Batail. Also, he had the help of two mentors, Brother Renel Boyer and Sister Micheline Boyer, from whom a prayer cell was set up at Sister Zite's in Hartford.  

 

Transferred to Windsor sometime later with the Jackson family, this cell of prayer still exists today under the direction of Rev. Sony Augustin.

 

At the beginning of 2010, the community center of grace was experiencing administrative difficulties, which in some ways required a separation between the members. This problem gave rise to two churches: Church of God of Grace and the independent Haitian Church of God in Hartford. Although the Rev. Sony Augustine on his part remained at the Church of God of Grace, he was always in touch with all the members and often reassured them of the plan of God. Tormented by the separation and recalled his call to the pastoral ministry.

 

On September 9, 2012, in West Hartford, Connecticut, Rev. Augustine gathered a mixture of the two churches and founded an evangelical society named Assembly of El Shaddai with Cof-founder Engineer, Ephesien Redvil. In addition to these groups mentioned above, this new church was supported by the families of Eragene, Elien, Laplant, and Esperance.

 

Since its foundation of September 9, 2012, The El Shaddai Assembly knew a growth unparalleled. She was leaving West Hartford in January 2013 to move to 36 Gillet Street, Hartford. Today, Rev. Pastor Sony Agustin is assisted by a numbers Assistant Pastors and an Executive Council.