Black market Fuel…
We just purchased 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel for $10 per gallon! Fuel is very scarce here in Haiti. Some say there is no fuel in Haiti. No gas stations are open. The government is saying the fuel terminal has enough diesel to last Haiti for 15 days.
Jimmy Bar-B-Q, the head of the G 9 gang, has blocked the entrance of the fuel terminal and is not letting any fuel tankers come out for days now. Other times the government doesn’t have the money to pay for the fuel on the big tanker ship.
Haiti has been in a fuel crisis for months now. Please pray, we must go 100 percent here at Love A Child. We are on the edge of being totally dark which also means no water! Our 85 children, Jesus Healing Center, Birthing Center, Malnutrition Center, plus 21 more buildings… which are all a blessing to the Haitians. Jesus has never failed us yet!!! Please pray for all of us and the precious people and children of Haiti.
Thank you for your prayers and support.
Bobby Burnette
Diesel fuel and gas are very scarce in Haiti. Most people would say there is no fuel in Haiti. I hear there is enough fuel at the fuel terminal for 15 days for everyone in Haiti.
Jimmy Bar-B-Q, G 9 gang, has blocked the entrance for days. The result is no gas stations are open that I know of. Yesterday we bought 1,000 gallons of diesel for $10 per gallon. This will only last us seven days. Please pray!
It is imperative we go solar 100 percent at Love A Child. By faith! Haiti has been in a fuel crisis for months.
Bobby and Sherry have no internet connection in Haiti. There is no fuel in any of the cell towers which provide phone and internet service, and they don’t know when there will be. Please pray!
“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.” (Proverbs 3:5-6)
Solomon, the wisest man in his time, wrote the words above. Sometimes, we don’t understand all the things we are going through and are facing now, but we are trusting in the Lord all the way!!
Bobby and Sherry have no internet connection in Haiti. There is no fuel in any of the cell towers which provide phone and internet service, and they don’t know when there will be. Please pray!
The people who survived the August 2021 earthquake are facing another hurricane season with no reliable shelter. Children are awakened by rain and remain awake, in the mud, until the storms pass. Parents scavenge for any materials they can use to help fortify their makeshift shacks. Our burden is to build a permanent place of refuge for these families. When they move in, it’s not four or five people moving into a home, it’s generations of family members being protected by these permanent, Gabion houses. God has made a way where there seemed to be no way! We need your continued support to see this mission through!
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“Sowing and Reaping.” So you, “thought you married Rachael?”
It is impossible to plant onions and expect carrots… It is “God’s law of sowing and reaping,” “seedtime and harvest.” Throughout our lives, we are constantly “planting or sowing.” But, we can expect that when we have “sown” some bad things, then we will reap the same.
Jacob was a good example. He had deceived his father, Isaac, in Genesis, Chapter 27. He went in to see his father Isaac, who was nearly blind and pretended to be his brother Esau, (the one his father loved the most). Jacob deceived his father, in order to receive “the blessing of his older brother Esau,” the first-born. And in those days, “a blessing was a blessing that would come to pass.” It was like a prophetic word.
You know the story… Jacob had to flee from his brother Esau and ended up at his uncle Laban’s. He fell in love with Laban’s youngest daughter Rachael and had to work for seven years for Laban in order to marry her. But, can you imagine his horror when he woke up the next morning and found that he had not married Rachael, but Leah, her sister! Laban had deceived him! Jacob had planted “deceit,” and now he was reaping what he sowed.
The same works when we plant “good seeds,” small acts of kindness, leaving a “bountiful tip” for a struggling waitress, or someone who cleaned your room, or giving when it was a sacrifice. It all comes back. Let’s plant “good seeds” of kindness. They will all come back, and some 100-fold! Have a great day! Sherry
Mikalange and Mika are twins. We have “three sets of twins” at Love A Child! Wow! Usually, twins are as different as day and night! These two are no different! The twins’ mother died soon after delivering them. They were born in the remote mountains of Covant, Haiti. (The area is called Bel Fontaine.) There was no clinic or hospital there, and their mother needed a C-Section. There was only a local midwife who did the best she could. Their father brought the twins to us to raise. Both girls love school, their church, and their home!
You can look at Mikalange and figure out already that her sister is the quiet one! Mikalange loves music, and of course, the instrument that makes the most noise – the drums! She is smart, hardworking, and mischievous! She loves to cook!! She is in the 9th grade and wants to learn computers! She is really a funny kid and a “mean soccer player!!” And she loves to aggravate her sister! Whatever Mikalange puts her mind to, she can do it! We all love her so much.
Our wonderful staff at our Jesus Healing Center have been working “day and night” for the needs of the people here in Haiti. Due to the crime and attacks on citizens, our staff finds themselves being “on call” to answer the need…
Here is a report from Nixon, who is overseeing the Jesus Healing Center Clinic, with Dr. Barthelemy, our head doctor… He explains how our Jesus Healing Center is “on-call,” 24/7!
“Our health center contains three (3) buildings, a large clinic (Jesus Healing Center (JHC)), a modern maternity center (Love A Child Birthing Center), and the Love A Child Malnutrition Center which is here to serve the poorest part of the population. We will try to tell you a little about them.
The JHC meets the care needs of the poorest people who can’t afford hospital bills. At this clinic we have a large waiting room, a pharmacy with all kinds of meds distributed free of charge to the patients following the prescription of our doctors, an emergency room for some urgent cases (example cases of gunshot wounds), a laboratory and a room where vaccines are given to newborns, and we have seven consultation rooms. Our ambulance is always available to transfer patients, but we rarely transfer because of the gangs occupying the roads connecting our zone and the city center of the country. For the last several months, the flow of patients who used to visit our clinic has been decreasing because of the gangs who control the road. Thus, many no longer have access to our care and suffer at home. We hope that the situation will change and that there will be free movement of people again.
Our Birthing Center unit operates 24/7 and includes a waiting room, four (4) delivery rooms, a pharmacy, a training room for future mothers, a laboratory and the specialists who work there, and a team of doctors and midwives with whom we have full confidence. After the construction of this maternity clinic, poor mothers were happy to have a place to give birth with dignity and this reduces many cases of infant mortality due to women giving birth at home and endangering the lives of their children. They travel dozens of kilometers… sometimes they come on donkeys, on foot, on motorcycles. It is a wonderful revolution for poor mothers and future children.
For malnourished children, we now have a center that treats their cases. Our Malnutrition Center works closely with the JHC clinic. We have found that due to food shortages and high prices, creating food insecurity, many children who attend our clinic suffer from malnutrition of all kinds (like Kwashiorkor and marasmus). This situation pushed us to build this center of malnutrition. We give the children who are hospitalized there the best care possible. They have nurses and a mother looking after them. They have access to nutritious food, F75 and F100 milk specially prepared also we give them “plumpy nut” to help them… After spending a few months here, the malnourished children have completely changed.
Thank you for giving us new equipment so that the clinic and our birthing center can function better. Thank you for the uniforms for all our employees. Words fail us to be able to thank our partners for their support. May God bless you abundantly and dispose of your hearts to help the needy… Nixon”
Thank you partners, and we especially thank Joyce Meyer Ministries – Hand of Hope for their monthly support and we thank our partners for all the times you have helped with special projects with your prayers and donations of items needed! Most of all, “all Glory to the Lord!”
Sometimes, we talk when we should be listening and not saying anything. Christians, especially, fall into a trap of telling everything about everybody, instead of “keeping some things in their heart.” This is one thing we need to learn from God’s Word!
Proverbs 29:11 says, “A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.” (Or, until he ponders the situation.)
In 2 Kings 20:13, King Hezekiah should have read this scripture before he opened his mouth and began telling the king of Babylon about all the treasures in the house of the Lord! Immediately, when the Lord heard this, He sent the Prophet Isaiah to tell the king what would be happening, since Isaiah could not control his mouth. It is better to listen and “ponder” than to hear and begin to “tell it all.” Words are like the wind; you can never get them back.
