This week, stories of the marginalized and suffering in Haiti are brought to Bobby and Sherry’s attention. One mother has witnessed her children’s bellies swell and hair turn red with malnutrition; they fight to survive, but you can’t outrun starvation in a fourth-world country. A teenage boy knows what it means to be abandoned by one’s father; seeking security for his sister, he puts his body through back-breaking work. The food we deliver is a means of conversion, revealing God’s presence and goodness to his never-forgotten, ever-loved children.

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Love is something that you do!

Every one of us has an enemy… maybe we don’t even realize it. It could even be someone who is “jealous” of you. You can feel that “bad spirit” when you are around them… but God wants us to make our enemies, our friends…

The other day when I was in the States, I was renting a car. There was only one lady behind the counter, who was handling two different car rentals. Bobby had made the rental in his name a while back, so he thought that they would switch the name to me, Sherry. But, it wasn’t that easy…

Bobby was getting on the plane and we were losing connections, and he tried to call the rental company, but couldn’t. I asked the lady to please change the rental to my name… and wow! You would have thought I had asked something hard. But, she was not budging.

“Your husband needs to call them and cancel that rental and we will switch it to your name.” Nothing was working out and customers were lining up behind me… angrily. I had to go 4 1/2 hours to make it to a wedding of our friends… and this lady at the rental place hated me, I thought.

Well, I decided to thank her for what she was trying to do, even if she could not do it. I told her what a great job she was doing, how patient she was, and that her company should be paying her more for taking care of two different car rentals! Wow, again! She really warmed up! By that time, Bobby had gotten through before the plane took off and I got my rental.

Before I left, I handed her a little piece of white paper, and tucked $20 inside it with a note that said, “Thank you!” Instantly, the light came on! She was so sweet, and she wrote down her email address, “in case I ever had a problem at that airport with my car rental!” It is better to make friends than enemies.

“If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink. For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee…” Prov. 25:21-22

Have a great day, and try making your enemy, your friend!

Sherry

Daniella and her brother Daniel are twins. Nothing is known of their father, so maybe he left before the children were born, but their mother didn’t know she was about to have triplets! She took a tap-tap ride to the General Hospital (hospital for the poor), and there had been violence in the streets. So when she arrived, she was told to “ leave!” Since there were rioters there, she went back home to give birth to twins; the third baby died with her.

Her uncle had someone bring the twins to us. Both babies were extremely frail and severely malnourished. Both are still small and thin.
Daniella is a worker and will do anything that is needed. She wants to be an “eye doctor” because her twin brother suffered so much from bad eyesight.

Daniella is in her last year of school. She is so, so sweet and quiet. She loves Church and loves the Praise Dances. And, “everyone loves her!” So do we!!!

Sherry

“And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest. And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the Lord your God.” Leviticus 19:9-10

Welfare was never God’s plan… it was always God’s plan for “His people” to take care of the poor… not the government. That was God’s Welfare Plan. He still intends for us Christians to take care of the poor today. He doesn’t want us to “keep back everything,” but always to share what we have. God bless you, Sherry

We “little human beings” often think that our “problem is too big for God,” or that “God needs our help…” The God that “sits on the circle of the earth, who puts His big feet on the earth as His footstool,” cannot find “anything too hard for Him!” It’s impossible!

“Ah Lord God, behold, thou hast made the Heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is NOTHING TOO HARD FOR THEE.” Jer. 32:17

So, go ahead and give God “something big” to tackle today! All you have to do is use your “mustard seed of faith,” for “our Big, Mighty God,” to do a miracle! Now, begin to praise Him in advance!!! Have a great big day for your great big God!

Sherry

If you have never heard Daniel’s story, it is short and sad… He is from the very poor “mud-hut” village of Old Letant. His mother died, and his father died when he was hit in the head with a rock!” (Haitians can really throw rocks – as if they are bullets!)

The people of the village tried to keep him alive, but everyone had their own struggles with feeding their own children. They asked if we could take him and we said “Yes.” We never know what kind of child we will raise when we take in a baby. Sometimes, a child has a “curse” from generation to generation, as in Voodoo, but we know the Lord is more powerful! We noticed Daniel, (we call him Daniell-o), was having mental problems when we put him in school. He does not do well with other children… he is “always by himself.” He just cannot handle school anymore.

So, we told him that he could be a “Love A Child employee!” We will give him a little money each month to put in a “bank,” so that when he is older he will have a little in his savings. Daniell-o is such a sweet kid! He is always gentle, always smiling, and does any kind of work! We know God loves him and has a great plan for his life.

Sherry