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Latest News Archive

Latest Semi Container Update:

We do not have our semi and container back to Love A Child yet. Please pray… The 400 Mawozo Gang had released it several days ago without charging Love A Child any money. The semi and container are still sitting at the gang’s compound.

Casimi, who the gang also released, was told he can pick it up anytime, no problem. Casimi, along with our LAC director, has talked to the 400 Mawozo Gang (Papaya Gang) several times. Casimi has tried to drive the semi and container out, but the road is so filled with gangs that so far it’s been impossible.

The Papaya Gang has split into rival gangs since their leader has been arrested and sent to America. They are all wanting power and control. They are shooting and fighting each other and the list goes on. Yesterday, we had a friend who traveled with a heavy Police escort, along with others. The Police got scared part way down the road from us and turned around and came back!

We have several Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) food containers in customs. We can’t pull them out, it’s too dangerous. We also have other containers in customs with valuable medicines for the Clinic and Birthing Center. Customs charges us $70.00 per day per container. We are really needing a miracle and your prayers.

Urgent: We are looking for a large warehouse we can rent near the port where the area is safe to bring all of our life-saving FMSC containers. None of this is on the news. The gangs are destroying Haiti… Port-Au-Prince looks like a war zone.

Haiti needs someone to come and help free it from the bondage of the gangs. The police have tried their best, but they are outnumbered and outgunned.

Haiti and its people are very precious and sweet. The children will steal your heart!

Please pray for Haiti…

Bobby and Sherry Burnette

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“Faith is an Action Word”

I’ve noticed that everyone likes to talk about Faith. There are so many books written about it and so many messages in Church about it. I have come to believe simply, that Faith is an action word.

Today, Pastor Varius came to see me. He is a sweet and humble Haitian Pastor who now has a small church in Petionville, Haiti. We have known him for a long time because he first pastored the Love A Child Church here at Fond Parisien.

He had come for a pallet of the Feed My Starving Children food. He shares it with his congregation. But, this was his third trip here because the gangs are so bad on the streets, that as of right now, at 12:00 noon on Tuesday, we have not even gotten our container back yet. There are now four sets of gangs between us and the next big town, Croix-des-Bouquets.

I explained to the Pastor that we could not give him any food because we don’t have it to give until our driver gets our container back, and then goes to Port and goes through those gangs to pick up our food. He smiled and timidly said, “By faith, the driver will get here, because I will pray!” I looked at him and said, “Yes Pastor, but Casimi the driver said that he would really love it if a Pastor with lots of faith would go with him and sit beside him in the driver’s seat and pray him through the gangs!”

I saw the look of fear in his eyes as he quietly said, “I will pray for him from home.” I insisted, “You will be fine. You just need to sit beside him up front and have faith!” After looking at the nervous shock in his eyes, I said, “I’m only teasing. I just wanted to see if your faith had any action!”

We all need to have some “action” with our faith! We are serving a big God and He is able to deliver us! Have a great day.

Sherry

“Faith without works is dead…” James 2:20

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It’s Party Time!

I just had to put up some more birthday pictures that our son Dieuferly just sent us. It’s party time!!!

We got Dieuferly from deep in the mountains when he was about 2 years old. He had terrible club feet. Today, after 4 operations, he has perfect feet! PTL! I was looking around the room at the different children remembering where they came from. Some near death and many would not be alive today. They all came from awful, deplorable conditions. And they are all now receiving love, a good education with some in collage, and they all love the Lord. We have one big happy home!! It’s a joy living right here with the children.

Love is something you do…

Bobby Burnette

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The Big Birthday Blowout!

This evening, we had a birthday party for our kids! They are a noisy, happy bunch! We had singing contests and competitions of “who can find Bible verses fastest?” Our kids love contests! We had lots of singing, and lots of fun! We are “one big family!” It was great to take a break from the stress of Haiti and enjoy the children! Thank you, Partners! You have saved and blessed many lives!

Thank you,
Bobby and Sherry

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Fritzner… “A Low Maintenance Child!”

His mother was a very poor woman from the mountains of Covant (Belle Fontaine), Haiti. When his mother died, the pastor of the church there brought him down to us (apparently his father deserted him). He was a frail little baby when he came.

Fritzner is shy but he smiles all the time. He is a good worker and is usually up early in the morning taking care of the grass, the plants, etc. He always makes sure his bed is made! He is shy and “very tall!” He loves soccer and will be in 7th grade! We love Fritzner. He is a “low maintenance child!” I just love that!

Sherry

P.S. His dream is to be a doctor!

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Due to Lack of Water, a Mother is Forced to Leave Her Baby’s City Clothes on for Three Days

A lack of health care, extreme poverty, systematic insecurity, and a lack of education… This is what characterizes Haiti today. It seems like nothing is working in this country, and this makes it difficult for the poor to survive.

Madamn Aurelus had come a long way to the Jesus Healing Center Clinic. She was carrying her fourteen-month-old infant, Franker, who was coming to the clinic because of a horrible skin infection. He comes from a poor family of 6 people (parents and children) who lives mainly from a small garden. The shortage of water in the area forces people to walk more than three hours to find a source where they can draw water. This situation pushes Franker’s mother to leave his clothes on for more than 3 consecutive days before taking them off to wash them. This is what started Franker’s chronic skin infection. The baby was covered with open sores.

According to the testimonies of his mother, he has been suffering from it for five days. This takes away his appetite, makes him itch, and prevents him from sleeping. It was already a nightmare to find food for her children; imagine the torn heart of this mother who realizes that her child no longer wants to eat because of his pain!

Franker scratches all night and the more he scratched with his dirty fingernails, the worse he was! His mother could not afford to take a taxi (a motorbike) because the rising price of gasoline causes the price of motorbikes to rise. She had already lost a child and refused to lose another.

So, in desperation, she walked all the way to reach the Jesus Healing Center. When she arrived at the hospital, the medical team immediately took charge of Franker’s case. He had the opportunity to be diagnosed by our Pediatrician. Then the nurse cleaned his wounds with distilled water and Betadine. Then he applied antibiotic cream all over his body.

The Pediatrician advises Franker’s mother to boil his clothes and blankets and disinfect them, and no longer leave dirty clothes on her son. The mother was so happy to see her son relieved of his pain even before leaving the hospital. It’s a blessing and a good way to share love. Once again, we say thank you to all of our partners because without you all this would not have been possible.

Thank you, partners… I am sure the child had an infection plus scabies, and perhaps something else… but I was horrified to learn that his mother left his dirty clothes on for three days, simply because she did not have the money to buy water… so so sad. Sometimes, I wonder how many times my heart could be broken… over and over again? Keep on praying for Haiti. God bless you.

Sherry

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Word from the Mission Field

“Praying for a Harvest.

“Say not ye, there are yet four months, and then, cometh harvest? Behold, I say unto you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.” John 4:35

When God called Bobby and me to Haiti, we never knew what all we would be going through and we never knew how vast the harvest would be. When the harvest is ripe, we must get ready to glean it. When you are trying to win someone to Lord, and you feel the Spirit of the Lord is touching their heart, and they are “hungry for the Lord,” they are “ripe, ready to harvest.”

The world is changing fast. The freedom to preach the Gospel on the streets, tell people about the Lord, and stand for Jesus, is being trampled on, but we cannot let that stop us, from winning souls to Jesus! Just remember, “you,” are the candle, you are the light, and you may be the only “church” that someone goes to. Never be ashamed to let your light shine, because the “harvest is ripe and ready to harvest,” and Jesus, is coming soon!

Sherry

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Welcome Home Jackson!

Jackson arrived this afternoon by truck, along with Pastor Mark, Jovanie, and Phanise. It took so much space for all Jackson’s medicine, his special foods, his Dialysis machine, and all the boxes of liquids that the Dialysis machine takes (couldn’t get everything in the truck!)

We will bring back more medicines on our next trip to the D.R. Jackson has had kidney failure since we brought him out of the mountains. He has made many trips back and forth to the D.R. for some time.

We especially want to thank Philimond, our driver (not in the picture) and Jesse Ostrander who have worked so hard to get this all set up for Jackson. We also want to thank our partners who sponsored the cost of this Dialysis machine and Jackson’s medicines! Let’s see what plan God has for this young boy.

Sherry

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Internet Problems

Hello everyone. We are having both phone problems and internet problems here in Haiti. I don’t think any pictures will go through. Please check back a little later. Sherry

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Word from the Mission Field

Good morning!

“A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.” Proverbs 17:22

Today no matter what we may be facing together, let us have a merry heart! The Lord is with us, he has not forsaken us.

“If God be for us, who can be against us?” Roman 8:31

Missionary Bobby Burnette

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