Esther was just a baby, about five months old, when her mother appeared at our gate, at our mountain home in Haiti… that was about 17 or 18 years ago. Esther’s mother had also brought Esther’s sister, Widlene, with her. This mother was very sick, thought she was dying, and[…]
Lakoline is a small village tucked between two remote mountains in the south of Haiti. Our faithful man of God, Hubert, was traveling to assess the situation for a planned feeding program later in the month, when he found two families with very hungry children. Hubert typically carries some rice,[…]
“GOD WILL DELIVER US IN THE DAY OF TROUBLE!” The continuation of yesterday morning’s post: The woman who raised me since I was two weeks old (not my natural mother), kicked me out of our house when I was 16 years old for “not stopping going to church.” The only[…]
Moses is now 17 and it is a miracle he is alive! Our main Haitian worker is Nelio Barthelemy. He is directly under us, and he is over “everything we do in Haiti!” It was Nelio who first got ahold of us, about a “baby who had been birthed in[…]
We have been working in the village of Old Letant for many, many years. This has been a tough village to work in because it is “constantly growing!” Gangs have taken over the homes of so many people and these families had “no place to go!” So, many families have[…]
“WE ARE FOOLS FOR CHRIST’S SAKE…” I was raised with a woman, who wasn’t my mother since I was two weeks old. But to me, she was my mother. However, I was not treated very well. I was not loved. I became a Christian when I was 16 years old[…]
Dimelia (Dumolia) is a sweetheart! We have lots of young ladies who have grown up in our orphanage and are now married or in college. We first met Dumolia when her father brought her to us from the mountains. She was probably about four and had been badly burned about a[…]
In a nation besieged by political turmoil, while its citizen’s cries for help go unanswered, stories of resilience and hope emerge. Listen to a young girl, thrust prematurely into adulthood, who shoulders the burden of her family’s survival during these difficult times. Witness the struggles of a mother wrestling with[…]
This morning we loaded 43,500 Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) meals for our food distribution tomorrow morning. We’ll be in an undisclosed location for security reasons. The children and the families there are very hungry. Some children have not had a meal in two days. In the morning, we’ll also[…]
“Abandoned” Have you ever been “abandoned?” It really means “left behind” or forgotten about. Sometimes, we have read that a baby was found “abandoned” in a garbage can. People abandon puppies or dogs they don’t want. But being “abandoned” can mean many other things, too. A husband leaves his faithful[…]
