{"id":537,"date":"2024-12-20T21:16:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T21:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eccsaintsiege.org\/?page_id=537"},"modified":"2024-12-20T21:18:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T21:18:53","slug":"fondateurs-et-leadership","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eccsaintsiege.org\/en\/fondateurs-et-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Fondateurs et leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"537\" class=\"elementor elementor-537\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-12316ae e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"12316ae\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dccc5ad e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"dccc5ad\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3ce253e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3ce253e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Mon nom est Samuel Bil\u00e9ou Joseph OSCHOFFA.\u00a0<\/p><p>Je suis n\u00e9 en 1909 \u00e0 Porto-Novo. Mon p\u00e8re est protestant et se nomme Joseph OSCHOFFA. Il exer\u00e7ait la profession de menuisier. Ma m\u00e8re, vendeuse de tissus, se nomme Fohoun.\u00a0<\/p><p>Mon p\u00e8re avait perdu plusieurs enfants en bas \u00e2ge. Il ne surv\u00e9cut qu&rsquo;une fille, ma grande s\u0153ur, nomm\u00e9e Elisabeth.\u00a0<\/p><p>Cependant, mon p\u00e8re ne perdit pas confiance. Il s&rsquo;adressa pieusement \u00e0 Dieu, le suppliant de lui accorder un gar\u00e7on qu&rsquo;il mettrait au service de l&rsquo;Eternel s&rsquo;il survivait. Quand il fut exauc\u00e9, il me donna le nom de Samuel et ajouta \u00e0 l&rsquo;intention de l&rsquo;assistance un nom yoruba \u00ab Bil\u00e9ou \u00bb, ce qui signifie \u00ab s&rsquo;il te pla\u00eet de rester ici-bas avec nous sur la terre pour servir au Seigneur. Quant \u00e0 moi, je reste. \u00bb Dans le cas contraire, retour au Seigneur. Quant \u00e0 moi, je reste.\u00a0<\/p><p>En 1916, lorsque j&rsquo;eus sept ans, mon p\u00e8re tint sa promesse et me confia \u00e0 un cat\u00e9chiste protestant, M. Mo\u00efse GNANSOUNOU (quartier Z\u00e9bou), p\u00e8re du feu Nathaniel A. GNANSOUNOU, pour assurer mon \u00e9ducation. Mais j\u2019\u00e9tais trop jeune et il fut oblig\u00e9 de me garder encore jusqu\u2019\u00e0 l\u2019\u00e2ge de 13 ans. Puis il me remit en 1928 au Pasteur David Hodonou Loko \u00e0 qui il fit savoir sa promesse faite \u00e0 Dieu de me laisser au service de l\u2019Eternel.*\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00c9lev\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9cole protestante (quartier Hou\u00e8zoum\u00e9), j\u2019\u00e9tais interne chez le Pasteur Loko. Nous \u00e9tions plusieurs condisciples dont l\u2019\u00e9minent \u00e9vang\u00e9liste GNANSOUNOU Nathaniel bien connu dans l\u2019\u00e9glise du Christianisme C\u00e9leste. Durant six ann\u00e9es, je fis mes \u00e9tudes primaires jusqu\u2019au cours moyen II. Notre \u00e9ducation \u00e9tait rude. Je n\u2019avais pas la force physique qu\u2019il fallait pour continuer et m\u2019\u00e9vadai pour rejoindre mon p\u00e8re. Toutes tentatives de ce dernier pour me remettre \u00e0 mon patron \u00e9chou\u00e8rent. Exc\u00e9d\u00e9 et d\u00e9courag\u00e9, il dut me laisser \u00e0 son atelier. En effet, mon p\u00e8re \u00e9tait menuisier.\u00a0<\/p><p>J\u2019avais donc fui la force pour la force. Mais je me r\u00e9signai et obtins ma lib\u00e9ration apr\u00e8s quatre ann\u00e9es d\u2019apprentissage. Puis je continuai \u00e0 exercer le m\u00e9tier dans le m\u00eame atelier que mon p\u00e8re. Mais le 15 juin 1939, mon p\u00e8re mourut. C\u2019est alors que je me d\u00e9barrassai du travail \u00e9puisant en abandonnant la menuiserie **un AN APRES.**\u00a0<\/p><p>Aussi, m\u2019int\u00e9ressai-je plus particuli\u00e8rement \u00e0 la fanfare municipale o\u00f9 j\u2019\u00e9tais trompettiste du vivant de mon p\u00e8re.\u00a0<\/p><p>Peu apr\u00e8s, je remarquai que cette situation de trompettiste \u00e9tait bien pr\u00e9caire et je me r\u00e9solus de me livrer au commerce d\u2019\u00e9b\u00e8ne. C\u2019est ainsi **QU\u2019A PARTIR DE NOVEMBRE 1946, je commen\u00e7ai \u00e0 parcourir les villages de la vall\u00e9e du fleuve Ou\u00e9m\u00e9. Ce sont des villages enfouis dans de grandes brousse et tr\u00e8s \u00e9loign\u00e9s des grands centres. Mais on y d\u00e9couvrait beaucoup de bois d\u2019\u00e9b\u00e8ne. J\u2019avais pris l\u2019habitude d\u2019aller partout avec ma bible et je faisais r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement mes pri\u00e8res.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mon nom est Samuel Bil\u00e9ou Joseph OSCHOFFA.\u00a0 Je suis n\u00e9 en 1909 \u00e0 Porto-Novo. 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