That “business” is bringing health and healing to the poor who are sick, bringing Hope through our church ministry and education at our Christian schools! Even though the gangs are “very near us,” our dedicated doctors, nurses, lab techs,
midwives, teachers, and those who work in our Malnutrition Clinic are not stopping or hiding!
Just a short distance from our Love A Child compound are the gangs. They are just a short distance from us and have already taken over the town of Ganthier, a town near us, orphanages near us, and also a college! Each day all of our children and workers pray that God will keep us safe! God has called us to the poor in Haiti, and we continue to do our work! We are so proud of all these workers, especially at our Clinic and Malnutrition Center!
Thank you, partners for your prayers and support that keeps everything going.
“Blessed is he who considers the poor;
The Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.
The Lord will preserve him and keep him alive,
And he will be blessed on the earth;
You will not deliver him to the will of his enemies.
The Lord will strengthen him on his bed of illness;
You will sustain him on his sickbed.”
These are the Seven Blessings for helping and caring for the poor… You are blessed!
Ha! We have a Haitian man working for us at the orphanage and he is “over the boys!” His name is Ednas and he “runs a tight ship!” Ha! In Haiti, (until High School), they usually want the boys to have bald haircuts! Ugh! It’s ok for little boys to keep their scalp clean but I don’t like it for teen-aged boys! Oh well, it will grow!
Christian is small for his age but his smile is ten feet long! He is an excellent piano player and drummer! He never gets into trouble! Christian was brought to us by the Department of Social Services. His father had been sent to prison and his mother had died. There was no one to take him in. Christian was only about five or less when the Department of Social Services sent him to us.
He is a hard worker and is kind to everyone! Christian is in High School, but hasn’t yet thought about what he wants to be! But whatever it is, he will make a good one! He loves music and school! A Creole Proverb says, “Your face is your Passport!” If that is so, he can make it anywhere!
We got our “first baby of the year 2025” from our Love A Child Birthing Center in Fond Parisien, Haiti!
The proud mother, Marie Aliane Charles, is 40 years old and married! The baby girl, weighing 3.4 kilos (about 7.5 pounds), is in good health. Her mother came all the way from the “Pine Forest” because she wanted to have her be born in our beautiful Birthing Center. But due to the insecurity where Love A Child is, she didn’t think we would be open!
Well, we “are open for business!”
We would have loved to have this little bundle be born on the 1st, but “late is better than never!”
Special thanks to special friends who sponsored this beautiful Birthing Center so that poor Haitian mothers can safely have their babies in a clean environment with the best midwives!
We love our beautiful, clean Birthing Center for the poor! And, our “newcomers” always get new “one-sies” and gifts of new blankets, diapers, etc.!
God bless our partners who made this possible for the poor.
Sherry
P.S. Poor mothers in Haiti do not “think of names” before birth. After they are born, they will think of a name.
Jackson is still in Santo Domingo. He loves his new hat! He has been seen by his doctors and is undergoing daily infusions of antibiotics in his dialysis solution. The doctors are trying to knock out peritonitis, an infection in his abdomen. If they are unable to solve the problem through antibiotics, they will have to put him on hemodialysis. This will be a huge challenge for us. We are praying that the infection leaves his body so Jackson can continue to receive peritoneal dialysis. This type of dialysis can be done in Haiti with his special machine.
Thank you for always praying for this young man. Jackson is strong in spirit and is walking by faith!
“Be Strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, He it is that doeth go with thee; He will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.” Deuteronomy 31:6
I have read this scripture many times over in my life. I never knew back then “how much it would mean to me” until we moved to Haiti! In the last two years, the gangs (more than you can count), have been threatening everyone’s life! In fact, they are just a few miles (maybe eight), from our Love A Child compound in Fond Parisien! The gangs have “joined together.” If they ever come, they will come in full force! This is our time to stand on God’s Word! We will be strong and of a good courage!! God is our protector, and He is yours too! Have a great day.
I can remember the day we took Samuel into our orphanage. He and his family had been living in a poor village very far from us. There were no jobs… just “dry dirt” and very little rainfall for their tiny, pathetic garden. His family had six children, and then little Samuel came along. Sadly enough, Samuel’s mother died during childbirth. That’s the day I remember so well because we had a Mobile Clinic Team with us. The baby was in the arms of this poor, mountain farmer. That father was crying so hard when he handed over the baby to me. Our whole team was crying but we all knew the baby could not survive without nourishment.
Today, Samuel has finished all his schooling and is deciding what he wants to do with his life. Samuel is such a blessing to us! He plays drums and bass guitar in the service each night but more than that, he is extremely sweet, kind, helpful, and loves God! He loves soccer, dominos, basketball, and playing jokes on his brothers! He is one of our favorites!
We have always taught our own children and our Haitian children to give and not expect anything in return because God has already blessed us!
These pictures are of the Epi D’or Restaurant that is located in “Gwo Maché Mirak” (Grand Miracle Market) in Fond Parisien, Haiti. Love A Child built a huge market area here to give jobs to the poor!
At the front, we built a restaurant to provide jobs and to bless the community. The first people who operated it did not do well, so Dieuferly, one of our Haitian boys, and his brothers took it over. They are doing so well!
We taught them to always bless the poor, so they had a very nice, upper-class meal and blessed the workers at the restaurant!
All of the Haitian children have been taught to “give!”
Thank you, Pastor Jentzen Franklin, for your donation of $1,000,000 to build the huge Gwo Maché Mirak (Grand Miracle Market)! It is a great success and provides jobs for the poor!
God bless all our partners for helping us to provide jobs for the poor!
Sometimes, we “tie God’s hands,” with our unbelief. God “loves faith!” He loves it when we pray and thank God ahead of time for something that we need, but it isn’t here yet! In our Orphanage in Haiti, if we promise the kids we are going to do something or go somewhere, you don’t have to tell them twice! They will be waiting outside our door! Even if I forget, the kids never do! They have “faith,” a childlike faith!
Jeremiah said it like this, “Ah, Lord God, behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm and there is nothing too hard for thee.” Jeremiah 12:17
This is “your word,” for today, “Nothing is too hard for thee!” Now, lift your hands to Heaven and give Him praise in advance for what He “is going to do!” Blessings, Sherry
It was many years ago when we first traveled to Haiti. We rented a house in the mountains. Further up the mountain road was a poor lady whose husband had left her with two children, a baby named Esther and a little girl, three or four, named Widlene. Madamn Jesula was a poor lady with no job and no way of feeding two children. This poor hungry mother was so thin… she thought she would die. She needed someone to take in her two children when she died. We sent the lady to a doctor who said she was “malnourished.” So we took Madamn Jesula and her two children into the first old orphanage building. That was years ago. Esther, the “baby,” has now graduated from Philo School and works for us. Widlene is now in college to become a chef! Widlene and her sister are devout Christians! Widlene has one more year to go, to get her diploma! God doesn’t see things as we are, He sees what we “can be,” with His help! Thank you, partners!
