God has blessed us with the best workers, with a heart for the poor. “Hubert,” is our contact in the Nippes area, where the earthquake struck. He has an extremely tender heart for the poor. His story was told by Watson, our TV cameraman, who also has the “heart of God,” for the poor…

Bobby and Sherry

From Watson…

“Mr. Bobby, during our last food distribution in Kawouk (Zone Perien) in Nippes, I did an interview with this Lady, Guerline Guerrier. During the interview, she explained to us her sad situation that she endures with her children without their father! Their house was damaged after the earthquake. Out of curiosity, Hubert returned to the area and visited her. This young lady lives in a bad situation. Her house was destroyed, and she was not on the list to receive a tent. When it rains, she stays up with the children to wait until the water comes out of her house. Hubert came to see her and brought her one of the tents left over. This made her so happy!!!! So, the “happiness continues in Nippes.” The people in this area were happy for the food distributions! “Love is Something you do!” Blessings, Watson”

“The Spirit of the Lord…”

“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon is upon me…” Isaiah 61:1

How many times have we read this scripture and did not fully understand the “power” of the “Spirit of the Lord”?

For one year, we have worked so hard to get a “medical visa” for Djonsly Alcin. Nearly all of you know his story, how cancer pushed the right eye out of his head. How his mother had such strong faith in God, she would not give up until she found a clinic to help her son. Then, the “Spirit of the Lord,” spoke to her ‘to come to Love A Child.‘

That was over two years ago. A wonderful hospital took Djonsly, did his surgery, and Djonsly came back to the States. A short time later, he had to go back again for another operation. While he was in the hospital, his Visa expired but no one had bothered to look at his Passport because his mother was concentrated on her son’s health. He came back to Haiti, with an expired passport.

The Hospital called for him to come back at the beginning of this year… from then on, it was a struggle to get this Visa. But God sent us the best Christian attorney we could have. We fought so many battles for a year. We had to get a congressman to help us. For one year, we worked day and night trying to get his Visa… and it happened!

Due to the gangs, we had to go through the Dominican Republic to the airport. When we got to the airport with Djonsly and his mother, the people at the counter asked for their “Covid vaccine shots records.” (We just didn’t realize the US had passed a law that all foreigners had to have this.)

Bobby pleaded and pleaded with them, as Djonsly’s mother stood praying. Suddenly, “the Spirit of the Lord God” came upon Bobby, like warm oil. Right then, Bobby knew the “current would change!”

The head man at the counter looked at Bobby and said, “This is a Humanitarian Emergency. He can go!” Had it not been for “the Spirit of the Lord,” Djonsly would be back in Haiti, dying of cancer, with no hope.

Today, whatever your problem, the “Spirit of the Lord,” will solve the problem!

Keep the faith.

Sherry

Noah is growing so fast and is so big! He could be a football player in the States!

Some of you, if this is the first time you have seen Noah, he was found at the outside of our Love A Child gate, beaten and left for dead, at the age of about one. He had no hair, he had teeth bite marks on him, his hair was falling out and he had severe malnutrition. He could not and would not talk. But, after lots of love from everyone, he began to regain health. We did not know for sure if he would be mentally and emotionally healed… but, look what God has done!

Here, you can see Noah when we first brought him in, from laying on the ground all night long… We took him to our clinic, and he began the long road to healing… to having anyone hug him or hold him. Now, he is a “pistol!” Ha! Noah is super smart in school and has a memory like an elephant! He is a hard worker and does his yard chores without complaint! He has no emotional problems at all… makes friends with everyone.

We can only imagine what God will do with his life!!!

Thank you, partners, for your prayers, and we thank all our partners who sponsor Love A Child, children. It costs a lot of money to keep up with the needs of maintaining the Children’s Home, and all the needs of the children who have “special medical needs,” (there are eight of them). Remember to pray for Jasson, who will be going back to the Dominican Republic to a special doctor, in regards to his kidneys and possible dialysis. He needs a miracle, too!

Thank you and God bless you, and God bless our children.

Sherry

Children in the States take so much for granted… While almost every child has a cell phone and some type of laptop, the parents of children in Haiti struggle to buy a book, a pen, or a pencil. We have been in schools in Haiti where the teacher will break a pencil in half and share it with two children.

All school children in Haiti must have a uniform or they cannot go to school. Our Love A Child school colors are blue and yellow, for “all of our schools.” About a week ago, we received lots of special gifts from “The Prayer Palace/Global Missions.” They sent a lot of different supplies, but we immediately opened the school items so that we could send these on to our LAC children, in many schools. If you want to know if these children were happy, just look at their faces!!! They were happy, laughing, and couldn’t wait to “get back to work!” Ha!

We just want to say a big “thank you,” to The Prayer Palace/Global Missions, and to all those who participated in getting these supplies, boxing them up, and sending them to us here in Haiti.

Sometimes, when a container comes in, if there are gangs on the street, we must wait until it is safe for the container to bring these items to Love A Child. But they have all arrived and brought smiles to many children! Thank you also for all the other supplies and gifts you have sent. We will be sending more pictures in the near future!

Thank you and may God bless you,
Bobby and Sherry

Note: If you would like to know the greatest need at our Love A Child Children’s Home, it would be “boys pants,” all sizes… Most of the boys are on the slim side, but we have one boy, Raphael, who is a little heavier… But, if you see any sales on jeans, or dress pants, any size, please put them in a box and send them to Love A Child. (Also, dress shirts, any size, for Church!)

We also need men’s work boots, men’s tennis shoes… they don’t have to be new. Thank you!

Send all these items to:

Love A Child
12411 Commerce Lakes Drive
Fort Myers, Florida 33913-8664
PH: 239 210 6107

“Small Things…”

We are living in a day and time when everyone wants to do “a big thing.” I have met wonderful missionaries in Haiti, and when asking about their work they say, “I only have ten children in my orphanage…” Or in the States, a pastor might say, “We just have a small church…” Jesus loved the “small things” done in His name, as much as any “big things…” The widow woman who gave her last two mites is written about in the Bible. The little boy who gave his five loaves and two fishes, and yet Jesus fed over 5,000 with this food!!! And, consider the widow woman in 1 Kings 17:13, as she baked her “only cake” for Elijah, the prophet…

We met a wonderful lady missionary years ago in Haiti… she had raised six Haitian children as her own, and yet those six children left an impact on Haiti. Two of them pastor large churches, and the others had great careers and worked hard for the Lord!

I heard a story about a great Evangelist in the 1950s named, “Tommy Hicks.” He pastored a very small church all of his life, until one day God spoke to him to go to Argentina and other countries. He also went to Russia!!! He had the largest outdoor crowd in Russia that anyone has ever had!! One night, while he was preaching with a Russian interpreter, the interpreter got very angry at something Tommy had said and he “spit in Tommy Hicks’ face” and walked off the platform. He had over 1,000,000 people listening to him, but all of a sudden, the Spirit of God came upon him and Tommy Hicks began preaching in perfect Russian!! He gave an altar call and thousands came to the Lord!

The Bible says, “For who hath despised the day of small things?” (Zechariah 4:10)

Jesus blesses “small things done in a big way for His Glory!” Have a great day and remember that “nothing is too small in the eyes of God!” Sherry

I don’t think Jonas has ever been seen without a smile on his face! He is the happiest little boy in our orphanage. It has been less than a year since we found him during the taping of one of our television programs. We had gone for a food distribution, and one of our co-workers saw this little boy working alongside grown men in the fields. Pulling him aside, our worker began to hear the child’s story. He was one of the many “restavek” slave children. These are children whose parents have died, and they have now been sent to a family member or sold to work in someone’s garden. His horror stories would make a grown man cry.

We took him away with us. He had never been in a car, had a shower, sat at a table, or put on shoes. He had never been able to eat, without being beaten “for not working hard enough.” He had never been to school until he came to us, so he is far behind. But, what he lacks, he makes up with his smile. In December, he had his first Christmas! Let’s see what Jonas will grow up to be! This is “one lovable kid!”

Sherry

There are some areas in Haiti, especially South Haiti and Central Haiti, where it is very peaceful. The people there have not allowed gangs to enter, especially in the areas where we just came back from… the Nippes area.

But in Port au Prince, the capital, the Martissaint Street area, Croix des Bouquets, and some other areas, these have all been taken over by gangs. In fact, many of our employees have not been home for several weeks, because the gangs have put “containers” blocking the roads. Local tap-taps cannot get through, and neither can people on motorcycles, etc. It is very dangerous.

Risking their lives…
This also means that people on the other side cannot get to our Clinic or our Birthing Center. Just recently, one of our ambulance drivers named Michael Volcy was taking a patient to a Hospital. The patient needed fast, critical care… but, the gangs stopped our ambulance. They did not kill our driver, but they took everything he had… his money and his phone, but thank God, they let him go. Patients are now “risking their lives” to come to our Jesus Healing Center because they cannot get to other clinics or hospitals. Some patients try to come on foot, and some come by boat across the lake.

One man, John Patrick Romelus, had suffered a horrible burn on his chest. It resembles a burn with boiling water, which is very dangerous. He risked his life to come because his pain was so severe. He would rather take a chance going through the gangs than die of an infection. Our doctor and nurses immediately and tenderly went to work on him, to clean his wound and gave him dressings, antibiotics, and something for his pain. He was “extremely thankful” for the care.

Our hearts break for the poor…
They are suffering from a lack of food. Even our food containers cannot make it through the gang territory yet, so food is out of reach. When the poor are sick, they cannot make it to our clinic, unless they take their lives in their own hands. Our prayer is, “God, please send help for Haiti. We are willing to work hard, but we cannot do what we want to do with these gangs in control. Please send us help, oh, Lord.”

Thank you partners for your prayers and love. We are thankful to Joyce Meyer Ministries – Hand of Hope, for their monthly support of our Jesus Healing Center. God bless you all, we love you.

Sherry

This week the Love A Child team takes you into the region of Nippes, Haiti to hear from those who survived the August earthquake. People have been left without possessions, homes, or livelihoods. Despite everything that was destroyed, they cling to the assurance that God will preserve them. For six months now, the widowed, crippled, blind, and elderly have been sleeping in a tent or in the elements. Together, we can fix that; with God’s vision, our plan, and your generosity, we can build forever homes for these children of God with unshakeable faith.

We want to invite viewers around the world to tune in on Friday to Daystar Television Network at 6:30 p.m. (ET) and then throughout the week. You can also watch us on DirecTV, DISH Network, Christian Television Network, The Word Network, NRB, and many more local television stations. Check out our full schedule for the best way for you to tune in. You can also watch the program online through our Vimeo and YouTube channels or on our website www.loveachild.com under the “Media” tab.

Together we are changing lives!

“The Giant and the Giant Killer!”

“This day will the Lord deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcasses of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air…” 1 Samuel 17:46

It’s how you see the problem that determines the outcome. When Saul looked at Goliath, he thought, “He’s too big to fight!” But when David looked at the giant, he thought, “He’s too big to miss!”

We all have to face “giants” in our lives… There are all kinds of giants, but let’s say “a giant is something bigger than you…” It could be a sickness; it could be your job; it could be “facing your enemy;” it could be a lot of things… It could be something that normally would make you afraid “until you pick up your five stones and head toward the giant.” King Saul looked at Goliath and thought, “He’s too big to fight! I don’t know what I’m going to do!”

David looked at the giant and thought, “I’ve already killed a lion and a bear with my slingshot! He’s too big for me to miss!” Your “natural eye” will only see the problem, but your “spiritual eye” will see the end result! You can say, “I’ve got this! God has never failed me yet!”

Today, it’s how you see your problem that determines your outcome! Don’t even think about running from your problem, because the thing you are running from “can smell fear.” And just like a lion, or a bear, or any other huge creature, your biggest chance is not to run, but to stand and face the giant!

“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” Philippians 4:13

Have a great day, because “you are already the winner!” Sherry