House# 63 is for the Michel family. Mr. Michelangelo has a vegetable garden, and his wife sells in the Market. In spite of the country being dysfunctional because of the gangs, Love A Child is feeding and providing houses for the earthquake victims of the south of Haiti! We have 37 more houses under construction....
"Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knows not what a day may bring forth." - Proverbs 27:1 When Bobby and I first moved to Haiti, we rented a house on top of a very steep mountain. It was called "Mountain Noire," or "Black Mountain." When it rained, you could never make it up the...
When you have this many kids and this many birthdays, you have a lot of laughter, a lot of fun, and a lot of competition. This month, we celebrated the birthdays of Ti Samuel, Jonas, Joshua, Esther, Bianca, Raphael, Anna, Rebecca, Colin, and Job! Haitian children love to sing, dance, and play competitive games. Tonight, it...
The couple who lived on top of the "mountain" in Covant (Bel Fontaine) were members of our Love A Child Church there. A Haitian woman died of "child-birth fever," and so the Haitian Pastor brought him to us and asked if we could take him in. There were four other children in the family, and...
Here is Pastor Ostrander today with part of his construction crew working on a new wing for future teams coming to Haiti!! We have not had teams come now for over two years due to the problems and dangers in Haiti. But we are working and planning for the future!!! "By faith!" Hope to see...
Little Lovencia is just one of the babies brought here to our Malnutrition Clinic whose life has been saved!!! She lives with her parents and three brothers in an area called "La Source." Her family is in "extreme poverty." The mother sells tiny bags of water and anything else she can find to sell. (There...
Our Mobile Medical Clinics and Jesus Healing Center cater to the suffering and despondent throughout Haiti. Your heart will break as you see a mother carry her teenage son through the mountains to our clinic because she has no wheelchair for him. Children suffer from ailments that would be treated within the first year of...
Holding on to "giving..." How many times have we let a "good thing" go by without doing anything? Sometimes, God speaks in that "still small voice" to do something good to someone, and we ignore that voice. The Word of God teaches us to "withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it...
“… and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doeth hinder me to be baptized?” (Acts 8:36) Haitians believe strongly in water baptism! Pastor Claude Mondesir has a large orphanage down the road from us. We help support his orphanage each month because times are tough here in Haiti. When the children from Pastor Claude’s...
Lomene is now in her second year of becoming a professional cook! This has always been her dream! We first saw Lomene when she was a little girl taking care of several families... cooking and washing clothes, etc. In Haiti, when a child’s mother and father die, or even when their mother dies, they are...
