There is a “critical fuel shortage crisis” in Haiti. Very little fuel can be found in the country. Nearly all gas stations are closed!

Where we live, we have no electricity, like people have in other countries. We have to run everything off our two big diesel generators!

We really need your prayers here at Love A Child. This week, we will be completely out of fuel. This fuel runs everything here. Our Orphanage, Malnutrition Clinic, Medical Clinic, everything! The most critical thing is water!

Our Diesel Generator fills our water tower three times a day at 35,000 gallons each time.

The government of Haiti has recently “more than doubled the price of fuel!” And, I have heard this morning, talking to someone at 4:30 am this morning, that the fuel is about to go up further in price!

If we “do” get a fuel truck to come, they must make it through the gangs! The last two tanker trucks that came to our place, got hijacked and kidnapped!!

Our URGENT, CRITICAL NEED is to have TOTAL SOLAR at Love A Child!

We have been working on this day and night. Rad, from our Ft. Myers Office, has been working with “Son Light Solar Power.” They have installed solar systems in Haiti and in other countries around the world. We are hoping to have the cost estimate this week. We think, as of right now, that the cost will be about $2,000,000.

What our plans are, is to do “one building at a time, as the money comes in.” We have an anonymous donor who has helped us for several years. He has pledged a $95,000 Matching Gift Challenge use “where most needed.”

So far, we have had $27,000 come in. We have till September the 18th to match this challenge.

Please, we need your help more than ever, since we moved to Haiti!

If you can give to the Matching Gift Challenge, call our office at 239-210-6107 and let them know you want to give.

(You must say, “This is for the Matching Gift Challenge!”)

Please mail letters and contributions to:
Love A Child, Inc.
PO Box 60063
Fort Myers, Florida 33906-6063

At the bottom of your check, please put “Matching Gift Challenge,” so your gift doubles.

Online: www.loveachild.com — select “MAKE A DONATION” — “Matching Gift Challenge”

Attention, please, anyone sending in your regular donations for projects, please put “Matching Gift Challenge” on the bottom, and it would double your offering.

Missionary Bobby Burnette

This is Dimelia, one of our older Love A Child children. Her life drastically changed one day when she was about five. She was with her mother who was boiling a large pot of water over an open fire. Dimelia somehow fell in and got badly burned before they could pull her out. From her neck down to her waist was melted. She could not raise her hands or turn her neck. For years, we sent her back and forth to the Shriners Children’s Hospital in Boston, and that’s how she learned to speak English.

But, speaking English in Haiti does not get you into college… You must know French! So, we found a medical college in Jamaica where they speak English. We have been working on this for a year. Now, we are just waiting on her visa! As soon as she gets this visa, we will take her to get her settled in college in Jamaica! No one deserves this more than Dimelia! She loves the Lord with all her heart! We are so glad the Lord used us to help her! God will use her life in the medical field.

Sherry

“Seek the Lord While He May be Found… Call Upon Him While He is Near.” Isaiah 55:6

The Haitian Christian people are very strong people. They are survivors! Their “strength” comes from the Lord. They will not miss a church service, no matter what. In the midst of shortages of food, diesel for the tap taps, failing crops, dangerous political demonstrations, and blocking roads, they still somehow make it to church.

If you ask a Haitian Christian what he thinks the future of Haiti is, they will say, “God has it under control. It is in God’s hands… We trust in the Lord.” These are strong people. Their church is their refuge from what is going on all around them. They still have faith in God, whether they have a job, or not… whether there is food for their children today, or not.

The Word of God declares, “Seek ye the Lord, while He may be found; Call upon Him while He is near.” Isaiah 55:6

Let us continue to seek the Lord, and draw nigh to Him, because we do not know what the future holds, but we know “who holds the future.” Have a blessed Sunday.

Bobby and Sherry

Here we are with Florence at the Santo Domingo Airport helping her check in because she is flying back to Italy today where she attends college. She had returned to Haiti to attend her sister Julia‘s funeral. It was a sad week, but oh we enjoyed being with Florence.

Mark Ostrander left for his plane before we took this picture. He worked very hard this week in Haiti preparing our future team housing. Sherry and I are about to board the plane for Florida. We are traveling to attend our Love A Child board meeting among other things, then right back into Haiti. Love is something you do!

Bobby and Sherry