With the help of Pastor Jentezen Franklin, we created the Grand Miracle Marketplace to provide a safe space for Haitians to work and to promote our sustainability initiatives. Though the gangs, natural disasters, inflation, and political unrest threaten the stability of each person’s life here, we remain a light in the middle of darkness, providing hope to these industrious people. Help us teach sustainable practices to our Haitian neighbors so they have a way to provide for their families, despite the many challenges they face.

We want to invite viewers around the world to tune in on Friday to Daystar Television Network at 6:30 p.m. (ET) and then throughout the week. You can also watch us on DirecTV, DISH Network, Christian Television Network, The Word Network, NRB, and many more local television stations. Check out our full schedule for the best way for you to tune in. You can also watch the program online through our Vimeo and YouTube channels or on our website www.loveachild.com under the “Media” tab.

Love is something you do!

“How Big is God?”

Have you wondered if “God is big enough” to handle my problem? Well, let’s see… ” But the Lord is the true God, He is the Living God, and an Everlasting King.” (Jeremiah 10:10)

“He hath made the earth by His power, He hath established the world by His wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by His discretion.” (Jeremiah 10:12)

“When He uttereth His voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and He causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; He taketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of His treasures.” (Jeremiah 10:13)

This is just a “taste” of what your God can do. He is “your God, your Father, your Creator!” He loves you and He is big enough to do anything you ask of Him… just ask in Faith. Nothing moves the hand of this our Mighty God, like Faith! Have a blessed day, Sherry

Madame Midjie, a young mother of two children, is a seller. For lack of economic means, she does not own her own house. She must live with someone else. She is not married and is not a Christian. While she was at the place where she was staying, she started to feel pain that took her by surprise. (She was eight months pregnant.) Unfortunately, she had no money for the transport costs. When she came to our Birthing Center, she had to walk for several hours to get here. Since there is no fuel in the country, she couldn’t find a taxi. No motorcycle or taxicab could come here.

When she arrived, the doctor transferred her quickly to do an ultrasound, and she had a great contraction. The specialists noticed that the baby was in a “seated position.” A few minutes later, the child was born in a state of “near death.” The midwife hurried to take them to the Birthing Center. Being in the neonatology room, they put the baby on oxygen, and he received a cardiac massage. By 10:10 a.m., the baby was crying normally. After examining him, his weight was 2kg, which is abnormal. After the necessary care, the baby regained life. His mother received the care she needed. Since he was a premature baby at only eight months, we had to transfer him to a special hospital for the necessary follow-up. We pray that mother and child will be well.

So many times, pregnant women, or those in great need of medical care, take their life in their hands to make it through gang-infested areas just to get to our Jesus Healing Center or Birthing Center. This little baby was “so close to death,” but with God, “all things are possible!”

Sherry

“Who Does God Use?”

That’s a good question.

It seems to me that God uses “nobodies” a lot more than “somebodies!” When God called David, he was a teenager taking care of his father’s sheep. If you were looking for someone to fight off a 9-foot giant and all his gear, it wouldn’t be a teenager with a slingshot! When God called Moses to deliver a million Jewish slaves from the hand of Pharoah, Moses told the Lord, “But I am of slow speech and of a slow tongue… I can’t talk good!” When God called Gideon to deliver Israel from the Midianites, Gideon was hiding his father’s “wheat,” in fear of the Midianites, by the wine press, but he was also hiding himself! He said, “Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? My family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house?” But God used him to deliver His people! And when Jesus sat by “Jacob’s Well,” he was looking for someone to “spread the Gospel” and to tell the good news! He could have used anyone, a woman of good character, but instead he used a prostitute, who got converted, left her water pot, went into the city, and said, “Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did! Is not this the Christ?” (John 4:29)

Don’t ever doubt that God can use you or anyone He chooses, because He never makes a mistake! All He is looking for is a willing heart.

Sherry

Note to our Partners: We “just got internet,” but we don’t know how long we will “have it.” Sherry

Jean Edward… He Does What He Loves!

Most of the older boys choose a profession such as “computer engineering,” or a “mechanic,” etc. But Jean Edward is different… He loves “tailoring!”

We first found him when we were with a Team from Feed My Starving Children. We were in the village of “Old Letant,” where we did Food Distributions each month. As we were walking around, we saw a little boy, about five or six, “starting a fire” and setting a large pot on the fire. Then, he went and carried a huge bucket of water from the pump by himself and started for adults who were just “sitting around.”

I realized then that he was a “restavek” (a slave child). This usually happens when both parents have died, and the child has to go and “rest with” (become a restavek, slave child).

This is actually against the law in Haiti, but no one ever reports this. These children will never go to school and never be treated like the rest of the children…

So, I picked him up and went to his “aunt” and told her, “We are taking him to the “big house,” and he is going to stay with us!”

No one ever came back for him. When he was here, we noticed that he would sit and sew with a needle and thread. He would get a needle and thread and sew the kids’ pants up or sew a button on a shirt, etc. Later, after graduating, he told us he wanted to become a professional seamstress, making uniforms, dresses, men’s clothing., etc. One of our partners sent in a sewing machine, and “he was off running!”

Jean Edward is one of the sweetest, kindest, and most obedient young men we have ever seen!!! He is loved by all! I am so glad we were in that dirty, mud hut village, in “God’s perfect timing!”

Sherry