Pastor Michèle Défay’s Bio

Pastor Michèle Défay’s Bio:

Born in Haiti, Pastor Michele did her elementary and secondary studies at Sacred Heart, a private catholic school in Port-au-Prince.  She came to the U.S. in 1967, where she completed her High School and attended Wagner College in Staten Island and Hofstra University in Long Island New York.  Called to the ministry along with her husband, Michèle experienced the new birth and the baptism of the Holy Spirit in 1981 at Montclair New Jersey.  Throughout the years, she has served the Lord in many areas of ministry like intercession, evangelism, praise and worship, deliverance, healing and teaching.

In 2007, she was consecrated in the ministry as a pastor at Christian Community Alliance and is now responsible for the church building management, the Sunday School Department and the planing and execution of CCA special events and outings such as retreats, concerts, seminars and conferences.  Reverend Défay has also distinguished herself as a translator-interpreter of different languages such as French, English, Spanish and Creole; and as an efficient editor of several books, booklets and magazines, published by CCA Inc and others.  As time will allow, pastor Michel seeks to work to develop CCA Outreach Center, a faith base organization with the vision to help the immediate Brooklyn Community, by providing different services for the children, youth and adult population, such as a Day Care Center, ESL classes, Adult Basic Education, computer literacy, parenting, tutoring and after school programs, Teenage pregnancy, HIV and STD prevention seminars, etc.

As a bible teacher, Michèle exposes the Word of God with simplicity, while being comprehensive and very convincing.  Since 1983, she travels abroad regularly as a missionary for Christ.  Currently, she assumes the management of CCA Outreach International, a division of CCA Inc., responsible for the operation of the ministry abroad.  As partner and spouse of Pastor Georges Défay, she provides valuable support to the different departments of the ministry and serves on the board of CCA Inc.  Pastor Michele graduated from several training programs from the United Nations, included Crisis Management, Trauma Counselling and Treatment, Advanced Computerized Researh Analysis, Advanced Spanish, Advanced French, etc.  Currently, she is a senior research/analyst at the UN head quarters, located in New York City, and travels abroad as required by her functions.  She is the devoted mother of three sons, Georges Jr, Hans, and Gilbert.