“Hand-Picked.” When someone says you were “hand-picked,” it is a great honor. Maybe you were “hand-picked” for a job, or to play on a team, etc. Apostle Paul said in Ephesians 1:4, “According as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him...
Yesterday was Flag Day in Haiti! Our Haitian sons Dieuferly, Jean Gardy, and some of their brothers run the restaurant at Gwo Maché Mirak (Grand Miracle Market). Dieuferly just sent these pictures to us today. The Haitians love their flag and are very proud of it! The government of Haiti treats their people so bad. Yet, the...
When she was very small, her father and mother abandoned her. They had no money to raise her. She was taken to our orphanage... Fabienne had completed her “13 years of school,” so we wanted to send her to college. She attended a dental college for two years here in Haiti. She wanted to be...
They say, “Idle hands are the devil’s tools.” If you are in charge of a large orphanage here in Haiti, then you understand that proverb well! Our children have to clean their rooms, clean the mirrors, make their beds, etc., each day before they go to school. But on weekends, they all have to wash...
“We Live Our Lives with These Words.” It was many years ago that we came across these words in Psalms 41:1-3. We had always been serving the poor, feeding them, providing medical care, and much more. I had never paid attention to Psalms 41:1-3. That day changed our lives! We had always helped the poor,...
Lovely… She is a sweet young lady who dreams of being an attorney here in Haiti. She wants to “defend the poor.” But Lovely has had a very serious illness, which requires lots of medication and fresh food to eat. She is fine, but she is very frail. This is her first year of college...
173 children came from over the hill and through the woods to the village of Remond in the South of Haiti this weekend to have that one hot meal. Few places in Haiti suffer more than this area because of a lack of water. Young children carry buckets of water over three hours one way,...
O positive (O+) Jackson is still in the hospital recovering from surgery. He has been coming back and forth from Haiti to Santo Domingo for about 3 years. We thank God for the wisdom of the doctors here in Santo Domingo. They have provided Jackson with top-notch medical care. The doctors are now in the...
I have given you these scriptures before. This morning they are burning within my heart. The Word says: “Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in the time of trouble. The Lord will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver...
The box Jackson is holding was full of medical supplies for today's procedure. Don't worry, it did not hurt him, it is very light. We brought everything we needed with us to the hospital so that the surgeon could install Jackson's peritoneal catheter. After a long day, that box is now empty. The items in...
