As Love A Child embarks on its journey to Mon Oreg, Sherry comes across a family where a child is dealing with a profoundly distressing and precarious injury. The touching reality surfaces as parents, driven to find work, leave their young children alone at home, vulnerable to unforeseen dangers. Forced to fend for themselves, these...
“God is Our Defense!” If you ever want to “put God to the test,” come to Haiti for about 30 years. You cannot “put God to the test,” with a “visit.” The test comes when “your hands are on the plough,” and “your boots are on the ground!” He is the Miracle Worker, the Provider,...
Lionel is a very unusual young teen. He has been through a lot, though. When he was a young boy, for some reason, his father got angry at him and held his hand down in boiling water! When we found out about this, we took him in, took care of his burn, and then, called...
You may have heard part of this story before, but this is an update... Madamn Anicia and her husband, Franco, lived in Nan Boulay, not far from here. They had five children altogether... The rest of the children were not in the best of condition, but the one that was suffering the most was baby...
“Don’t Get Tired of Doing Good.” The Apostle Paul teaches us in the Book of Galatians, “And let us not be weary in well-doing: for in due season we shall reap, if faint not.” Galatians 6:9 Don’t ever get “tired,” of doing well, feeding the hungry, visiting the sick, bringing hope to the hopeless,” etc....
Moses looks like every young Haitian teenager but there’s nothing “normal,” about how he ended up in our hands. Haitian mothers, even if they are poor, will have their babies and do their best to care for them, even if their husband leaves them. But this mother went to an outhouse (in another area), gave...
Haiti is a country in great despair. Mothers die, fathers abandon children because they have no job, and often children are left with a poor relative, who now have “one more mouth to feed.” It is easy for us in the U.S. “not to understand.” We have people invading our Borders and showing up in...
“Don’t Give Up on Them.” Have you ever run into someone, and you think, “They’ll never change!” Or, “They’ll never become a Christian!” Apostle Paul, in the Bible, might have been a person like that. In fact, he used to be Saul, and persecuted Christians and even killed them! He was changed to Paul and...
This is our sweet Yolanda! She will be a “leader” one day! Yolanda was born in the mountains, far away. Her father, a farmer, was killed, and her mother had just given birth to her!! With nine other children, her mother knew she could not care for another child! She was brought to our orphanage...
A Haitian Creole Proverb After living among these wonderful Haitian people, we have come to find out “that even in the worst of times,” Haitians try to laugh. This morning, when we were having a meeting with our main leaders (as we do each morning at 6:30), we always see that even when things look...
