Update:

PTL! our container came in yesterday with 272,000 Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) meals on board! Nelio told me at 4:30 AM this morning that he believes another container will arrive today, maybe two containers. He said we would be pulling all the food containers out as soon as possible. I believe he must have made a deal with someone in order to have our containers travel through their gangs. It’s best I don’t know everything sometimes.

All this week, our Haitian team of workers will be delivering the food to several villages. Also, some organizations will be coming to pick up their food for their orphan homes and schools — if they can travel on the roads.

On Sunday, the papaya gang kidnapped a bus with the people on board going through Croix-des-Bouquets, not far from us. Eight of them were Turkish missionaries. Please pray for the release of everyone.

On Friday, the Papaya gang kidnapped a Dominican diplomat in the same general area. Thankfully, he has been released.

These gangs do not represent the sweet Haitian people. They are destroying what little is left of any economy. This must stop; very little is being done.

Pray for Haiti and all the hard-working people. The children are suffering more than I can put into words.

We are praying for the gangs; they need the Lord.

This storm in Haiti will pass over.

Missionary Bobby Burnette

GOOD NEWS! PTL!

Casimi made it through the gangs. Casimi was able to get our first container of 272,000 Feed My Starving Children meals to Love A Child today! Please pray! We have 12+ more containers to pull out of Customs. In all our years in Haiti, I’ve never seen hunger this bad. The children are suffering more than you will ever know. Thank you for your prayers.

Missionary Bobby Burnette

The village of Covant was one of our hardest and most dangerous mountains to get to. We had built a church and school there and had done some Mobile Clinics there.

This is where Lucson came from. His mother Emile died during childbirth (this is why we built a Birthing Center)! When his mother died, his father, Oscar did not, or could not, care for him. They were out in the middle of “nowhere.” So, the pastor brought this little “four-day-old” baby to us and we called him “Lucson.”

He is a “funny little guy,” just like an old man in the body of a child. Lucson is always smiling and very happy, and is always there when you need work done!!! He loves to read and loves school. He is quiet but mischievous, and he’s in the 5th grade! He has big ears, so the kids call him, “Zorey,” which means, “ears!” He loves to play soccer, the goalie! He is “super smart” and does well in school. Oh yes, he wants to be a doctor!!

Sherry

As many of you may know, Jasson, the little boy in these pictures, has a kidney disease brought on by Kwashiorkor Malnutrition. His kidneys have been failing for some time. So we have been sending him to a Kidney Specialist in the Dominican Republic.

Jesse Ostrander, who is working with us in Haiti, took Jasson and Yonel, one of our children who needed hand surgery, to the D.R. They just returned a few days ago.

The report is this:

Jasson has a lot of protein in his body; his kidneys are not processing it, and there is blood in his urine. It is time to implement plans for dialysis (which we have been trying to avoid). We will be purchasing the dialysis machine in the Dominican Republic. We are so thankful to one of our partners who is making this possible.

This plan will take place within the next 3-4 weeks:

1. Jasson will need surgery in the D.R. to have a catheter placed in his abdomen (the doctors will monitor him for 2-3 days). The doctors discovered a hernia that they will need to take care of at the same time. This process will take 5-7 days.

2. After the catheter is inserted, the “team” will start with dialysis. This part should take 14 days. The doctors will monitor him, and at the same time, two nurses, Jovanie (one of our LAC children) and Phanise, one of our LAC nurses, will be trained at this time. The nurses will be trained in the “daily function of the machine and nightly hook-up.” They must be trained to know what to do if something goes wrong.

3. We will have set up an apartment in the D.R. for this to take place. The dialysis specialists will come to the apartment to train the nurses with Jasson. They think this will take 14 days.

4. In the meantime, we will save a small room at our Orphanage, for Jasson and the two nurses. It must be thoroughly sanitized and only nurses with masks and gloves will be allowed in during that time.

Note: We also are praying and believe that we will find a Haitian donor in the D.R. for Jasson. This would be the best chance at a good life for him. Of course, pray is the main “medicine,” for Jasson, and “with God, all things are possible.”

Thank you for your love, and prayers for Jasson.

Bobby, Sherry, and Jesse

P.S. Special thanks to Jesse for all his hard work and many, many trips to the D.R. to find the surgeons, and for all his hard there. And thanks to Philemond, our driver, who has made many trips for Jasson, back and forth from Haiti to the D.R. and back!

“With a lot of hands, the load is not heavy…” A Haitian Creole Proverb

“Cooking Crazy!!!”

It has been quite an experience raising 85 Haitian children, and watching them grow up… some of the boys are in college and some are working for us full-time.

Girls are so different than boys, especially here in Haiti! They “love to cook!!” They are always asking us to buy a few new things so they can test their skills on the other children. Last week we bought 12 chickens from their “brother’s poultry business!” (Which is doing quite well!!) Their brothers are the “taste testers!”

It is fun seeing the girls cook basic things, and they know how to “exhibit” their food by arrangements. They say, “the food must not only taste good, but it must have a good smell and looks good on the plate!!” We will keep you updated on these new “creations” from our Love A Child children’s home, Sherry

Today is a very special day, and a day to honor my mother, who dedicated me to the Lord. When I was five months old I had a very serious complication that at that time, only happened to adults. My mother was not a Christian and my father was a rough, mean man. When the doctor examined me, he said, “I would need to perform an operation that has only been on adults. I don’t know if the baby will live.”

My mother got on her knees and told the Lord, “If you will save my child, I will serve you all the days of my life, and I will dedicate this child to the Lord.” She did, even staying with my father, with five children to raise. She “lived the life,” and my father accepted the Lord right before he died, in his 80’s. That’s how I got here… My mother stood for the Lord, in spite of being married to an alcoholic and in spite of the many times she had to “pray for God to send food on the table.”

Now, I am married to the best man God could give me, and we have been blessed to raise two children and have three grandchildren. But, in addition, we have been raising a whole family of Haitian children (85), for years. And, God has done “great things in the country of Haiti,” as we have been led by Him. God has spared our lives many, many times in Haiti. When we look at a child and dedicate this child to the Lord, there is no telling what he or she will do for the Lord. Thank you for “listening to my story.” Bobby and I love you, “very much!”

Sherry