If someone does not rescue Haiti from the gangs, the violence, and the political and economic turmoil I don’t know what is going to happen to the precious children and people of Haiti. When you cannot travel down the road in the major areas of Haiti without having fear of being kidnapped, shot, or robbed, it can be very stressful.

Just this morning Casimi, our Food Truck Driver, called saying he cannot make it to Love A Child with our 40-foot container of food. He had to stop in the middle of the road from gunfire and the gangs fighting each other. As you know, the “400 Papaya Gang” kidnapped Casimi and our two security people, along with our semi-tractor pulling our container. By a divine miracle and favor from the Lord, within 35 hours they were set free!

I’ve never seen in all of our years in Haiti so many Haitians desperate for food. Our containers coming in each month from Feed My Starving Children are vital. I used to buy extra rice from the Port-Au-Prince port, but now it is way too dangerous for Casimi to travel there and back with our container picking up the rice we would buy in bulk.

This morning I had a trip planned for Jesse Ostrander, Watson, Dieuferly, and Philimond to travel to South Haiti to do some updates on our Gabion house building project, which is going very well. (No gangs in south Haiti, thank the Lord.)

However, the route was too dangerous to travel there, so I canceled the trip yesterday for today. Yesterday Mark and Jesse Ostrander had to come across the border of the Dominican Republic to travel to Love A Child.

Love A Child is very close to the border and it is safer to come in this way. Pray for the missionaries who are still in Haiti. They are heroes, indeed. Probably 80% of the missionaries have left Haiti. Many of the missionaries have children and it’s not safe, so they had to leave. I know the Lord has called us to Haiti and its people. We have more work to do than ever.

Pray for Haiti! If someone doesn’t send help I don’t know what will happen. The police try their best being understaffed, and are never paid as they should be… and the gangs have bigger guns. We are claiming Haiti for Christ! This storm will pass… The best is yet to come!!!

Missionaries Bobby and Sherry Burnette