What’s a sacrifice? We hear this word often, especially in church or when giving to a special project. A “sacrificial offering,” is an offering that has “cost you something.” In II Samuel, a story is told of King David and the sin he committed when he “numbered his people of Israel and Judah.” He was...
This is Bobby Burnette. He is now in his last year of school and doing well. His goal in life is to be a mechanical engineer, but, of course, that could change. Bobby loves working with the guys and doing all that “greasy mechanical stuff!” Bobby is sweet, kind, respectful, and a little shy, (a...
As Missionaries we learned many years ago to take care of everything God has blessed us with, here at Love A Child. This includes vehicle repair and all the buildings on our property. We have a special construction team that does a lot of maintenance on buildings, we have an electrical team of workers, a...
The weeping prophet, Jeremiah, said something so powerful… “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 32:17 So, go ahead and give that problem to the Lord for there is nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing, too hard...
Our precious Miliana is now a young lady. She is doing well, but she still has a major skin disease which has been hard to treat. (Some call this the "tree-trunk" skin disease, which means that she has growths coming out all over her arms, hands, and legs.) We found her while in the mud-hut...
We just delivered to our school and community feeding program 48,600 Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) meals in the area of L'Artibonite. We did this by going the back roads to a 130-mile journey through gang areas. Thank you, Nelio and our truck driver Casimi... "Heroes of the faith!" Next week we will be delivering...
I can remember the day we saw this little girl in a very, very poor village in Haiti. She made me “stop in my tracks.” Her hut was just pieces of dried banana leaves. She sat on a little wooden chair outside, and she had her tiny hands wrapped around a small wooden pilon. I...
I can remember the day when Nelio, our Haitian Director, got in touch with me and said that he was bringing a little girl to our orphanage who was about three. She was sweet and quiet and had long silky hair! Nelio, our Director, said that a little girl, about three, was about to be...
This just came in from Wilner Exil, our head agronomist at the Love A Child Agricultural Training Center (ATC). He calls me "Big Boss!" More trees for Haiti!! We are tree lovers here. Bobby Burnette Hello my Big Boss! Today we are preparing to produce 3 to 4 thousand seedlings in our nursery as part...
One of our greatest joys is teaching Haitians how to help themselves. Our sustainability initiatives take them out of the cycle of poverty and provide them with the skills necessary to support themselves and their families. At the Agricultural Training Center, Haitians learn how to have bountiful harvests despite dry, barren, and hostile conditions. They...
