There is a “critical fuel shortage crisis” in Haiti. Very little fuel can be found in the country. Nearly all gas stations are closed! Where we live, we have no electricity, like people have in other countries. We have to run everything off our two big diesel generators! We really[…]
FIVE LOAVES AND TWO LITTLE FISHES! “Jesus went up into a mountain and sat there with his disciples… Jesus lifted up his eyes and seen a great multitude come unto him. There were 5,000 men not including women and children.” John 6:3-5 There was a little boy who had five[…]
This is Dimelia, one of our older Love A Child children. Her life drastically changed one day when she was about five. She was with her mother who was boiling a large pot of water over an open fire. Dimelia somehow fell in and got badly burned before they could[…]
“Seek the Lord While He May be Found… Call Upon Him While He is Near.” Isaiah 55:6 The Haitian Christian people are very strong people. They are survivors! Their “strength” comes from the Lord. They will not miss a church service, no matter what. In the midst of shortages of[…]
“Don’t Look Back…” “But his wife looked back from behind him and became a pillar of salt.” Genesis 19:26 What a sad scripture… The Lord had told Lot to get his whole family out of Sodom and Gomorrah because He was going to destroy it by fire. The only commandment[…]
Here we are with Florence at the Santo Domingo Airport helping her check in because she is flying back to Italy today where she attends college. She had returned to Haiti to attend her sister Julia‘s funeral. It was a sad week, but oh we enjoyed being with Florence. Mark[…]
Scattereth yet increases… “There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty. The liberal soul shall be made fat; and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.” Proverbs 11:24 & 25 This is one of God’s formulas in his kingdom[…]
It is common to find children in Haiti abandoned by their fathers, leaving a mother to try to raise her children and also be the “breadwinner.” Sonia Zetrenne is a young mother of 23 years old. She has five children and lives in an area called “Fond-Gaya.” Since her husband[…]
With a large number of children (85 plus), you must always have projects to keep them busy, boys and girls both. We put the girls on “window patrol,” cleaning all the windows in the Children’s Home! The boys’ “grass patrol.” Sometimes, grass tries to grow between the pavers or any[…]
A “short mother” came to our Birthing Center. Her name is Rosematha Pierre. She is very short. I was told that women in Haiti, shorter than 1.50m, are more likely to have problems due to a small pelvis. This can also make it difficult for the baby to pass through the[…]
