A "short mother" came to our Birthing Center. Her name is Rosematha Pierre. She is very short. I was told that women in Haiti, shorter than 1.50m, are more likely to have problems due to a small pelvis. This can also make it difficult for the baby to pass through the birth canal during labor. The...
I’m sure that every one of us has had an experience in taking “our way” or “God’s way.” When Bobby learned to fly many years ago, I was really afraid! After all, I would be flying “with him.” Bobby was taught that “no matter what,” “no matter what your senses told you,” believe the instruments,...
When you have as many children as we have, you must do birthday parties every month or every other month. This time, the party was for Ada, Dieubon, David, Davidson, Fabiola, Ginyia, Daniello, Wilguens, Mackenson, Stephano, and Nelson. Each one got a "little money in an envelope," because there are no stores near us. We all had...
This little sweetie is growing up fast! Ginyia is now 9 years old and going into 4th grade! (I thought she was ten, but the room mother told me she was nine.) Her chores are "babysitting little Zoey and Zachary," cleaning her room, and anything else the moms ask her to do. Her favorite things...
You can see these pictures of nice, beautiful new clothes we received for our Love A Child boys!!! (Boys are harder on clothes than girls!) It was getting harder and harder to keep our boys in pants and shirts! They were growing like weeds, and some as tall as "coconut trees!" I had put out...
Someone asked us, “How do you keep 85 kids busy in the summer when school is out?” They have chores to do but, believe it or not, the kids love those “hard-to-put-together” puzzles! We bought two about a month ago, which were 1,000 pieces! It was “girls against the boys!” The girls won because they...
In this week’s episode, your heart will break as you witness a little girl’s brave demeanor crack at the mere mention of a meal. Parents start working at the break of dawn, with only a small hope that at the end of the day they’ll be able to feed their children. At night they lay...
BROKEN FOCUS: “Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: if ye do these things, ye shall never fall.” 2 Peter 1:10 So many things come up in our lives which try to break our focus from what the Lord has called us to do. Some of these things may be a...
She is 16 now and what a sweet young lady! Ada, nicknamed Jessica, came from Cap-Haïtien along with her siblings - a boy named Raphael and an older sister named Bianca. They were brought here by their aunt, with the story that their parents took a "small Haitian boat" to the US, which capsized and...
Bernado is four years old. He is one of the many children who have been abandoned here in Haiti their father left for the Dominican Republic, never coming back. He does not know if Bernado is dead or alive, and he doesn't care. Madam St. Vil is Bernado's mother. She is unable to care for...
