You saw our post on the kidnappers taking the diesel fuel tanker and the three men after they left here. I found out today the fuel company paid the Papaya Gang $10,000 to release the tanker truck and men. They have been released… Thank you for praying. The road coming out here to Fond Parisien is very dangerous. Now the next miracle, pray the fuel company will keep bringing us diesel. Out here we have two huge generators which burn diesel fuel to give us power for all we have here, including
our children’s home. Praying for complete solar!!!
You saw our post from yesterday, and how the diesel tanker truck made it through the Papaya Gang to bring us the diesel fuel. When the driver and his helpers made it here they told us they really didn’t want to come, but because they knew Love A Child needed diesel fuel they came.
I told Sherry, let’s give them a good tip in their hand. Sadly, when they left here yesterday the Papaya Gang kidnapped all three guys including the diesel tanker truck. I do not know if they have been released yet or not. Please pray for them. We are concerned that we will not continue to receive diesel fuel. If not… we will be up the creek without a paddle.
Our pump pumps water 300 feet underground so we can have water. If we have no diesel, we will have no water or electricity. This will be a disaster for our children’s home, clinic, birthing center, malnutrition center… the list goes on.
I found out the fuel company pays the gang to come through Croix-des-Bouquets each time to come here to this area. I’m working trying to find out solar prices for out here. If we do not put all we have into solar, we will face total disaster. We use 95,000 gallons of water a day here to run everything at Love A Child!
Please… we need your prayers. The few missionaries left here need your prayers.
If someone or some country doesn’t stop these gangs who control different sections of the country, the Haitian people will suffer unbelievable pain in their lives. This must stop…
We need your prayers and support more than ever. We are claiming Haiti for Christ!
“Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.” Judges 16:22
Samson was a great man of God. There is no bodybuilder or man alive who could have done what he did. He killed a lion with his bare hands, slew 1,000 Philistines with the jawbone of an ass; he carried away the doors of the gate of the city on his shoulders; he judged Israel 20 years with his supernatural strength and would have continued, until he disobeyed the Lord in allowing his hair to be cut. The Philistines put out his eyes and made him grind in the prison house and made fun of blind Samson. With no hair, he was now a regular man held captive by his enemies. But, the Bible says, “The hair of his head began to grow,” and with this, his strength began to come back, and then he prayed, “Oh Lord God, remember me.” And, the “God of the Second Chance” brought life and strength back into him! He killed more Philistines in his death than in his life.
Today, no matter what happens in your life, you serve “the God of the Second Chance,” a merciful, forgiving God!
It is very difficult for the poor in Haiti to survive, but it is even more difficult for a person with a disability. They are considered “worthless,” and many times they sink into despair. When the 2010 earthquake hit, it damaged and destroyed orphanages. One of these was for handicapped children. A few days after the earthquake, Jean Richard came to live with us.
He graduated from High School, but during that time he fell in love with music and church! We recently sent him to college because he wanted to study economics, but that was not his dream. His dream was to go to a college in Haiti where he could further his music career and computer science. He had found that college run by a Pastor and he is so, so happy!
Take a moment to read his email. Sometimes, we never know how big a grain of mustard seed, really is.
“Hello, Mom and Daddy, I hope you are well with Jesus. To begin with, I would like to tell you that the new school I looked for, is very good. I could sleep there and study there. It will last two years, in which I will study music and computer science. I don’t do this enough and sometimes I don’t do anything to thank you and my sponsors for the patience and love you have given me. You and friends pay for my school thanks to God. Thanks to God for putting me on my path because it is difficult for a person with a disability in Haiti to be useful to yourself. But it is the grace of God that gives us health and you play a strong roll that can move me forward in life so that I can be useful to God and to Love A Child.
Thank you, Mom and Dad.”
After our post this morning saying the gangs were blocking the diesel tanker truck from coming here… Prayer works!
Thank you for praying! Here comes the big diesel truck full of diesel for Love A Child. Wow, unbelievable!
This morning our first post had an overwhelming response and many comments. When we added the container picture all the comments and numbers vanished. So they started over.
Now let’s pray that the 5 Customs officials will be released and Customs will open. We need our FMSC containers. Families are desperate to get food, our heart goes out to them.
Thank you for your prayers.
Note: Diesel fuel prices have more than doubled in price.
On June 10th, the Papaya Gang kidnapped five Haitian Customs officials, where our 40-foot containers of FMSC meals come out… and because of this, Customs has closed. So far the five Customs officials are still in the hands of the kidnappers. I’m afraid they will not open until the five Customs officials are released.
I cannot tell you how many children and families are waiting desperately for their food. Our hearts are torn out… Please pray.
We are also critically low on diesel fuel. Mr. Nixon told Sherry and I this morning if we don’t receive fuel our Birthing Center, Clinic, and Children’s Home will all shut down because of no fuel. Big tankers of fuel from the fuel company bring fuel out to us and others in this area. Mr. Nixon told us this morning, that the Papaya Gang needs 50,000 Haitian dollars to let the fuel through ($2,500 American). We do not believe in paying the gangs… this makes matters worse.
I will send someone to deal with the Papaya Gang this morning. They bring their wives and girlfriends here, and we deliver their babies. When they are shot or injured they come to our clinic… We minister the love of God to them. Please pray for both of these urgent needs, and that God will give us wisdom.
“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:35, 37-39
Our faith in God… nothing will separate us from the Lord! No matter what you may be facing today, Jesus will bring you through! I’m standing on his word this morning at 6:00 a.m. The best is yet to come!
What a sweetie! She was born in the mountains of Demesseau, Haiti. Pastor Emmanuel (who has gone to be with the Lord) brought her to us. She had poor health and severe malnutrition. Her mother died when she was just a couple of months old, and nothing is known of her father. Nothing is known about her siblings.
Anna loves music! She is in the 11th grade, and her dream is to be a doctor! She is a good student, respectful, and kind to everyone! She loves church and anything to do with church!! Anna loves to help those who have nothing, that is why she studies so hard. She helps clean the rooms and she helps the workers with whatever they are doing. Her goal in life is to serve the Lord and be a great doctor! We love Anna (Hannah). You would love her too!!!
We are on our way back across the border to Haiti. Jesse Ostrander is with Jackson at our apartment we rented in the Dominican Republic for Jackson’s training on the Dialysis Machine. The training will actually start on Wednesday because they are waiting for another one of our nurses to come tomorrow so that the two will be training at the same time on Jackson. He is doing well, although he has been through a lot. Thank you for your love and prayers.
Yesterday we called and got to talk to Jackson. As many of you know, we brought Jackson out of the mountains of Savaan Pit, Haiti. He had a HUGE belly full of water, caused by Kwashiorkor Malnutrition. Even though he no longer has this huge belly to carry around, he developed severe kidney problems.
For the last few months, we have had to take him back and forth from Haiti to the Dominican Republic (DR). We have had to buy a Dialysis Machine in the DR, and we will have two of our Love A Child (LAC) nurses learn how to do this. (The machine will go back to Haiti with Jackson, and he will get Dialysis at our orphanage.)
We talked to Jackson yesterday after he was released from the Hospital. We had to rent a small apartment for the Dialysis training, and it will also be used for many trips to the DR for other LAC children who will need special care, like Yonel. Jackson seemed happy and in good spirits. He has had a lot of counseling by doctors to understand what he is up against. Thank you for your prayers and love for Jackson.
Sherry
P.S. We are headed to the DR today and will be going by to see Jackson.
