“Sou Moulin” is a village not far from us. Like many other villages in Haiti, this is a tough time for trying to get food. Most roads are blocked by gang members, so mothers cannot get to the market to sell their items. This forces many children to drink “salt water” at least once a day to take the hunger away. Others resort to “mud cookies.” You may see some of the people dressed in their “Sunday clothes” (clothing reserved for church) when they come for food or to a Mobile Medical Clinic. They put on their “best clothes,” even if they are “rags.” When the stomachs of their children are hungry, it is hard to tell them that Jesus loves them. As one elderly lady once said, while a team was doing a bible distribution… “I cannot eat the Bible.” Thank you for helping the people and children of Sou Moulin with food and hope for tomorrow.

Sherry

We are so thankful the Lord has allowed us to build a beautiful Malnutrition Center Clinic for babies, toddlers, and young children. This Malnutrition Center was only a “dream,” but it happened! We want to thank Joyce Meyer Ministries – Hand of Hope for sponsoring this building project!

Up until this Clinic was built, we had nowhere close to us to send these babies. If we gave mothers money for transportation, they would spend it on food for their other children and never spend the money on the Malnutrition Clinic!

You will notice that there are some children in the picture who have red hair and swollen bellies, and others look really good!

The babies and children have to reach the right “weight” they are supposed to weigh for their age. Then, they go into another program where the mother brings them back each week for a check-up. There are special “baby foods” and “baby milk” they must take each day, but in addition, we send home Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) food. When babies are extremely malnourished, they cannot eat anything except for a special milk formula (which is very expensive and hard to get)! But, when they go home, they still have other foods and can gradually eat the FMSC food. In the meantime, the mother also cooks this FMSC food for her other children. If we did not send this, they would all be eating the special “baby formula foods,” and the child would end up again in our Malnutrition Clinic.

If you notice, the babies are dressed very well, with new clothes and even a beautiful new colorful “play blanket.” All these nice clothes came from our Love A Child partners!

We also want to thank those who help each month with the ongoing expense of running this Malnutrition Center… food, paying the doctors, nurses, cleaning team, etc.

See what happens when we work together… We save little lives!

Thank you, and God bless you.

Bobby and Sherry Burnette

P.S. We are not “meeting our monthly budget” financially, so if you would like to help with this project monthly, any amount, call our office at (239) 210-6107 or write to Love A Child… be sure to tell them that your gift is “For the Malnutrition Clinic!”

Please mail letters and contributions to:

Love A Child, Inc.
PO Box 60063
Fort Myers, Florida 33906-6063

Thank you, and may God bless you.
Sherry

Dumolia is a wonderful, sweet girl. We’ve had her since she was 3 years old, I believe. We don’t know what happened in the village where she lived, but she either fell or was pushed into a tub of boiling water. We took her in, took care of her, and sent her on several trips to the Shriner’s Hospital in Boston for skin grafts. For a few years, she was not able to turn her head side-to-side or raise her arms above her head. Now, she is a normal and beautiful young lady.

Next week, Sherry and I will be flying with her to Jamaica, where she has been accepted into an international nursing college in Kingston. Her degree will be accepted internationally. We will check her into her college dorm and get her situated.

We are trusting in the Lord for three “roundtrip tickets” from Dominican Republic to Jamaica at $1,100 each. (We are working on a date for next week.) Please pray about helping.

Thank you so much!

Bobby and Sherry

Good news from Villa Hermosa, Dominican Republic!

Over the weekend, David and Angie George of David George Worldwide Ministries, have been giving out school backpacks to the poor Haitian and Dominican children who live in Villa Hermosa where our Love A Child church is that David George sponsored to build.

They also went to two poor sugar cane fields to give out backpacks to the Haitians. They had activities in the church for the children and parents… a special thank you to RL and Vanessa for organizing and putting it all together. The church is exploding!!! We are so proud of David and Angie George… love is something you do!

Missionary Bobby Burnette

Message from David and Angie: “Bobby, these are our back-to-school backpacks loaded with school supplies for 250 Haitian and Dominican children in Villa Hermosa. 125 have David George World Ministries on them and 125 have Love A Child on them. We are having to buy more. We will take backpacks to two bateys that we work in. We got our new green team t-shirts with DGWM on the front and Love A Child on the back. This week they will put electricity in our Love A Child church. They will finish the wall this week with two gates. The largest crowd of children that we have ever had in Villa Hermosa. We need a bigger building!!! Love you guys, David and Angie”

Yesterday, we received two great miracles!

The first was for Dimelia, as most of you know, we have had since she was a little girl, 3 or 4. She had been badly burned. As a result, she spent years going back and forth to the Shriners Children’s Hospital in Boston. When she was in 12th grade, she graduated from an English-speaking Christian school here in Haiti. So, she could not go to college in Port-au-Prince, because she could not speak French! It took much prayer and a lot of work to get her into an “English-speaking” medical college. We chose one in Jamaica, but it took us over a year to work on her visa. Yesterday, she got her ok on her visa! She just has to go to Port-au-Prince and have her visa put in her passport. When she is ready we want to fly to Jamaica with her and get her settled into college! What a miracle!

The second great miracle was the fuel we finally received! Each day, we were checking the fuel gauge, and seeing it go down to practically nothing! In that case, we would not have only lost electricity but the ability to pump water into our water tower. 35,000 gallons need to be filled three times a day! In addition, Jasson (Jackson), one of our children, is on dialysis each evening. If we did not have electricity, Jasson would die!

On another note, our fuel tank was stopped by the Papaya Gang as it came on the road! The gang asked, “Where are you going?” The driver said, “To Love A Child!” The gang said, “Love A Child? You can go!!” Favor of the Lord!

Now, we are believing God for solar for our entire compound! Can God do it!?? Yes, he can! Thank you, partners, for praying “with us,” and “standing with us,” in this crisis we faced! All praise to God!

Bobby and Sherry

We want to wish you a happy Labor Day weekend!