Chavannes Jeune [SEP] country of citizenship
Chavannes Jeune
Chavannes Jeune is an influential Haitian Christian leader, pastor and evangelist, and an unsuccessful candidate for President of Haiti in 2005.
Born in Haiti on December 29, 1953, Pastor Chavannes grew up in an evangelistic household; his father was a pioneer of the Mission Evangelique Baptiste du Sud d'Haiti (MEBSH). During a Vacation Bible School at age seven Chavannes made his own personal commitment to Christ, followed by baptism at fourteen. Although Chavannes graduated with a degree as a civil engineer, he knew his
Chavannes prize in 1965 for his work on the entrance to the Church of Notre-Dame de la Salette in Paris and, in 1978, the "médaille d’honneur" for a plaster statue depicting a standing nude. In 1937, he decorated one of the façades of the Vatican's pavilion at the Paris exhibition of 1937 and in 1939 he was commissioned to execute a statue of Claudius Gallet for the city of Annecy.
After the war he exhibited at the Salon d'Automne and the Salon de la Jeune Sculpture from 1959 to