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“Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe.” Joel 3:13
Here is a recent crusade at our Grand Miracle Marketplace, Gwo Maché Mirak. Believing the Lord for souls here in Haiti in the midst of chaos! Thank you for your prayers and support.
Missionary Bobby and Sherry Burnette
“This is the day the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” Psalm 118: 24
This was the sunrise when we were in Africa last week. Amazing how the sun comes up in the East all over the world. This day belongs to the Lord. We are in his hands and will not fear.
Bobby Burnette
Dimelia (often called, Di Di), rounds up some of her sisters to help in the Maternity Clinic or Malnutrition Center. This is Dimelia, showing Lovely, how to mark the information that is coming in from the sonogram. This is Dimelia’s regular job at the Birthing Center each day!
Most of the women have never had a sonogram and to see their baby in the womb, is so exciting to them…. unless Dimelia says, she sees “two or three!” Ha! Dimelia will be going to a special international medical college in Jamaica this fall. She has already applied for her visa.
Lovely, pictured with her, wants to take a different route. She wants to study law! She wants to be an attorney for the poor! I told her, “The poor cannot pay you very much at all.” She said, “I know that, mom. But that’s what I want to do.” We will see if Lovely stays on course. The other girls volunteer at our Malnutrition Clinic! All our children must learn to “give back!” We are so proud of them.
Sherry
“Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.” Philippians 1:6
It’s not how we start out, but it is how we finish at the end! There are many temptations in life, evil trying to sway us, Satan trying to put the wrong person in our life. There are seeds of doubt, discouragement, and friends who will try to take us off focus on what the Lord has called us to do.
The Lord will perform his good work in us until the end. The best is yet to come! Let’s not be discouraged, but encouraged!
Bobby and Sherry
His real name is Wilner, but when we first brought him home with us, we already had a “Wilner,” so we nicknamed him Pistache, which means “peanut.”
As with Pistache, the majority of our orphan children came to us through Mobile Clinics in the mountains. One day (many years ago), we found a very small boy who resembled a skeleton. I sat him on my knee to talk to him. I asked his dad how old he was and could not believe it when he said, “fifteen!” No, not this little skeleton-like child… he must be much younger than that.
He talked “very mature,” but he was in the body of a small child, due to malnutrition. We brought Pistache home, began to feed him, and get him on his feet. In school, life was difficult because he was as short as the little children but his mind was much older.
Pistache never gave up his dream of becoming a journalist! He is in his first year of college and doing well! We all love this kid so much!! Bobby always teases him and asks if he has a girlfriend? His answer is always the same… “No, Dad, girls take all your money!” Bobby nods and says, “You’re right, Pistache! I know!! I married your mom!” Ha!
Sherry
A wall around our Love A Child property!
David and Angie George felt a burden to build a Love A Church in a poor area Villa Hermosa, Dominican Republic, some time ago. It’s an area that has a lot of poor Haitians, Dominicans, and a lot of children. Now David and Angie have a desire to build a children’s outreach with a playground, basketball court, and children’s activities. So we went in together and bought the land. Now David’s dream is coming to pass! He really has some big dreams for what will happen there!
The children are the future of the Dominican Republic and Haiti!
Bobby Burnette
Note: Please read David’s script below.
Hello Bobby and Sherry,
Our American and Dominican team worked so hard on this wall. The block is finished, they are pouring the columns right now, and then the CHAIN LINK FENCE will go on top of the block. We have 2 sliding gates, one gate in the front of our church and a second gate in the back!! And I got the HONOR TO LAY THE LAST BLOCK!!!! We used 4 of our teenage boys from the church and they worked so hard. Tim bought each boy a brand new pair of AIR JORDAN TENNIS SHOES!!! They grinned from ear to ear. What a spiritual impact we are making in Villa Hermosa!!
Love ya!!
David and Angie
Wilner Exil and his crew are planting seeds donated by Hope Seeds. Teaching Haitians how to have sustainability. We wish to thank Joe Perkins and Ron Lusk of Sustainable Food Production for donating and erecting these shade houses, as well as Hope Seeds for their generous seed donations.
We are helping Haitians to help themselves.
Bobby Burnette
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Please read Wilner’s message below:
From: Wilner Exil
Date: July 29, 2022 at 8:16:36 AM EDT
To: Bobby
Subject: ATC planting Vegetable seeds.Hello Big Boss.
Yesterday and today, we started planting Vegetable seeds in the garden plant houses.
Lots carrots
Broccoli
Celery.
Look at the pictures.
The seeds are from; Hope Seeds.Wilner
“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be open unto you: for every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.” Matthew 7 & 8
This is a powerful word from the Lord. TODAY ASK, SEEK AND KNOCK, THE LORD IS ABOUT TO GIVE YOU A MIRACLE!! God has more miracles than we have needs!
Bobby Burnette
Our sweet Dumolia is getting closer to her dream of attending a special “English-speaking” University in Jamaica.
As you may know, Dumolia was brought to us after she had been badly burned when she fell into a huge pot (chodia) of boiling water. At that time, she was about five years old. After weeks in a poor hospital here in Haiti, she was released but could not turn her head from side to side, nor could she raise her arms above her head.
We sent her back and forth to the Shriners Hospital for Children in Boston for many years. She had many, many skin grafts. She learned to speak English well and graduated from an English-speaking High School here in Haiti, but could not go to College in Haiti because she could not speak French.
Nearly all her paperwork has been completed to enter an International Medical College in Jamaica. She volunteers at our Birthing Center and does the sonograms. Dumolia will go far in her life! She loves the Lord, and she loves people!!
Sherry
