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ABSTRACT In harmony with government standard in National Education System, one of them indicated that a teacher should have personality competence. That competence will be shown in adult personality, stable, mature, discipline, wise, with authority, being role model for student, and has a good character. All of those could not be performed immediately without any preparation stages before. The unfinished conflict in past, being continued with any problems during study in college, sometimes made a teacher failed to perform his/her best personality competence. This study aimed to prepare personality competence formation of pre-service Christian educator/teacher through optimizing the role of peer helper. A total of 50 students was selected as samples, separated in 2 classes, treatment and control class. Quantitative method with quasi experimental design was adopted to collect data, and through paired sample t-test it is found that personality competence of pre-service Christian educators/teachers (Christian education teacher candidates) in the treatment class increased strongly, comparing with class control. Normalized Gain Score showed that the influence of peer helper on personality competence formation was 74%. In order to improve personality competence of pre-service Christian educators/teachers, it is necessary to optimize the role of peer helper.