Thank you for your support!!!! Madamn Bernard Augustin lives with her family in Marisil, a very remote area in the south of Haiti. For more than 25 years, she has weaved sleeping mats that are used for poor families to sleep on the floor in their houses. It takes Madamn Bernard one week to weave one sleeping mat, which she sells for around three dollars. After losing her house during the earthquake of 2021 she had lost all hope for survival, but now is happy, thankful, and blessed to have a new house constructed and donated by Love A Child.
In Acts 27 Apostle Paul is a prisoner of the Gospel. He had done nothing wrong but his preaching stirred up the Jews. When he went before King Agrippa, the king sent him on to Italy. They had to travel by ship. Apostle Paul had a “word from the Lord.” He told them that this voyage “will be with hurt and much damage… also of our lives.” They found themselves trapped inside a “hurricane” on the water! It was like a “cat 4,” and they were on a ship, right in the middle of it! “And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, all hope that we might be saved, was then taken away.” Acts 27: 20
Have you ever had “all of your hope” taken away? I have. Bobby and I have, many times. You can’t breathe, you feel like you have waves crashing over you and think, “this can’t be possible.” And if you have never faced that feeling, it is beyond words. If you lose hope, you will sink. You may have to “throw some stuff overboard,” but you’re going to come through this!! “Jesus is the master of every storm in your life!” He’s been in the ship with you all the time! This too, will pass! You WILL come through! Yes, you will!!
Roselyne is any parent’s pride and joy! She is one of our older Love A Child children and we are so proud of her. She is now in college in Haiti, at University Lumier. This is the same university that our head doctor, “Dr. Barthelemy,” graduated from.
Roselyne has always loved “working with medicines,” because she has been around our Mobile Clinics. When we built our first “smaller Jesus Healing Center,” she always volunteered in the ER Section! The doctors loved her! She was like a sponge, always ready to learn.
We actually found Roselyne during a remote Mobile Clinic in the mountains of Haiti. Her father brought her to us because her legs were crooked. When we took her back, there were no doctors that seemed to care, back then. There was nothing we could do for her.
But, as she grew taller, her legs straightened out! Now, she is tall, beautiful, intelligent, and on her way to a life goal. She rises every morning at 5:00 a.m. and she is “on her knees,” praying, believing, and trusting God to take care of her in the middle of going to college, with “gangs all around.” But, she has “persistent faith in God!”
We look forward to the day when we can call her “Dr. Roselyne!” Thank you all for your love, care, and prayers! Sherry
Our box truck which carried our generator just made it back safe to Petionville, Haiti. The company would not bring our generator to us because the road is too dangerous. Our guys had to use our truck to bring the generator to Love A Child.
Farmer John just messaged me saying: “Croix-des-Bouquets is now blocked completely. The gangs are declaring all-out war!” PTL! Mission accomplished. You must go through Croix-des-Bouquets in order to come to us from Port-au-Prince. Thank you, Jesus.
Thank you, David, Bryon, Joker, Nixon, George, and all the guys for all your hard work. PTL! We have 30 days to pay the $42,000 for the generator. The Lord will provide. We would appreciate your prayers.
One can never appreciate what a blessing food is, until they go hungry. I grew up in a family of five children and a father who was an alcoholic. My mother would go into her room, get on her knees and pray for food, many times. Because of prayer, I am what I am, today, a missionary.
Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. We don’t have a president, because the gangs killed him. We now have a prime minister, who is not doing anything to help the poor in Haiti. Gangs are everywhere!
This affects the poor because the mother is mainly the “bread-winner” of the children. Now, she can no longer buy small items and resell them, hoping to have a little leftover for her children. It is bad enough when a mother describes her broken, helpless heart, but when you hear a Haitian child talk about hunger, it brings tears to your eyes.
These children have “no hope,” of having even “one good meal” each day. You can see the difference between the child who has no food, no hope, and the child who is being fed every day in school, or by their mothers, who receive food from us. Please remember the poor each day in your thoughts and prayers. Someone is in need of “your help,” today. God bless you and thank you for making a difference.
I almost hate to watch the news each evening, or even listen to it. There is absolutely no good news! I think that even if they had “good news,” they would not share it because they only want us to hear “bad news.” We really “are” living in the last days and know that Jesus is coming. Even though there is not a lot of “good news in the world,” we know that “God is working His plan behind the scenes.” But do not worry… God is the “only one” who has it all figured out. He said, “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.” (Jeremiah 29:11) God’s answer is not found in either side of man-made political parties. It is found in Him! He has the world under control. Nothing gets “by Him.” As God must have said to Noah, “Stay in the boat. I’m driving!” Each day, we read the Word, we pray, and we praise God because He is the winning side, and we are safe in Him! So, let’s rejoice!
It’s hard to believe that our little Ericka is now 17. When we found her, she was covered from head to toe with sores. She cried all the time. Her mother had died shortly after her birth, probably due to eclampsia.
A lady who tried to take care of her (but couldn’t) brought her to our orphanage.
Ericka has always had speech problems, along with developmental issues. For a while, it was difficult for her in school. We thought about taking her out and paying her to work a little around the orphanage, but she insisted on going to school!
Ericka is now 17 and in 4th grade. She doesn’t care what people say about her. She also has a nickname (as all the kids at the Children’s Home have). They call her, “Madamn Jeune” after a lady that has been working with kindergarten children. But, she is doing well in school. She is basically happy, hard-working, and as strong as an ox! When she hugs me, she practically crushes me! Ha! We love Ericka!
She has had challenges, but she loves the Lord and has complete confidence in Him!
This picture was taken this morning as Casimi was unloading our fourth 40-foot container of Feed My Starving Children meals with 272,000 meals inside each container. We have many more to come. I received a call this morning from our Haitian director telling me how dangerous the road is, and for no one to go down the road.
Casimi said he will be bringing in our containers of food every day except Sunday. I can’t say too much, but Nelio told Sherry and I today that our containers can come through the gangs, roadblocks, and kidnapping on the road. Nelio and Casimi know how to deal with the gangs. Food is coming for the children and families!
Update: Mark Ostrander and I will be flying out for Haiti this Sunday afternoon. Sherry has to stay behind because her renewed expedited passport has not come in yet. Sherry and I want to thank all of you for your prayers, financial help, and your encouraging comments.
Here at Love A Child in Fond Parisien, Haiti, we have to run everything by a generator.
Today, our generator gives electricity to the Jesus Healing Center Clinic, the Malnutrition Center, the Birthing Center, and our Office. This morning, we just found out that despite our mechanics working long hours, it quit. He has put many, many hours into it.
The generator that runs our Children’s Home is also giving us problems. We ask for your prayers about this important situation. In the near future, we really want to go “solar” for everything running at Love A Child. This is an urgent prayer request.
In the meantime, we will have to buy a large, 200,000 KW generator. Thank you for your prayers.
