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!
Rad Hazelip, Assistant Executive Director
Word from the Mission Field
WE WILL TRUST IN THE LORD
“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!!
Missionary Bobby Burnette
Please Pray!
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!
Rad Hazelip, Assistant Executive Director
LAC TV Program “A Strong Tower” Begins Friday!
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!
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.
Together we are changing lives!
Word from the Mission Field
“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… Not the Quiet Twin
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.
Sherry
Our Jesus Healing Center… Day and Night!
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!”
Bobby and Sherry
Word from the Mission Field
“Keep it to Yourself”
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.
Sherry
Ericka… A Sweetie!
It would be hard to pick out the “sweetest and most loving” child here at our Love A Child Children’s Home, but it would be a close tie and probably end with Ericka. Ericka is always smiling and laughing, and even though she cannot speak well, she talks with her heart! She is now 17 years old and in the 5th grade.
Ericka’s mother died with what we believe was “childbirth fever,” eclampsia. Someone had been taking care of her, but when we arrived, she was full of sores, had malnutrition, and was constantly crying. We found another lady to care for her, but it was too much for her and she brought Ericka back to us.
As she grew older, we realized she had developmental issues and could not talk. We sent her to a speech therapist here in Haiti, but she did not do well with them. So, we just brought her to the orphanage. We put her in school for a few years, but she didn’t do well there either. She made it to the fifth grade, and we just decided to keep her at the orphanage and let her work with the ladies.
However, Ericka insisted on going to school, even though the other children were much smaller and younger than she was. She had it in her mind to go back to school! Ericka is as “strong as an ox!” She loves working with the older ladies and they call her “Madamn Jeune” (as a lady working with kindergarten children). We do not know what plan God has for Ericka, but He must a have a good one!
Sherry
Travel Update
PTL! Thank you for your prayers. We are back home now with the children at Love A Child in Fond Parisien. It was a long hard trip with a lot of rain coming back today from Santo Domingo. The children and everyone were so happy to see us!
Wilner Exil, who is over our Agricultural Training Center (ATC) sustainability program, emailed me with these pictures. Wilner, his guys, and the students have a green thumb… Yum! Nothing is better than fresh vegetables for the children and workers.
Bobby Burnette
P.S. Please read Wliner’s email to me below:
“Hello, my Big Boss.
I hope everything is fine with the Lord. This morning, we had a big harvest of ATC vegetables.
Orange
Lemon
Cabbage Leaves
Spinach
Leeks
The ATC team is more determined to produce more vegetables in the face of the serious problem of insecurity on the road.
(Look at these pictures.)
Thank you,
Wilner”
