It is a major thing in Haiti, for any child who comes from an orphanage, to get married! This is rare. But we are so blessed with good children, especially the boys, who get married! Most young men get a girl pregnant and run off and leave her. So, the young men here, who have...
I grew up in the hills of Pennsylvania, so "Bobby married a Yankee!" I grew up in a family of five tough little kids and we were always in the snow and on the ice. But as I grew older, I realized how dangerous the ice can be. I have broken my back twice in...
Living here in Haiti has broken our hearts more than you can imagine. Each day that goes by brings another story of a hungry child, a poor mother left to survive with her children, a village that needs food, or medical care… not to mention the challenges of raising [children in] a large Haitian orphanage,...
"Georges... AKA George!" His story is amazing! I used to go to downtown Port-au-Prince "by myself" to buy medicines for my Mobile Clinics. (Can't do that now, due to the gangs.) I always bought my medicines from one particular pharmacy and grew to be friends with a young lady at the counter. She knew we...
Blanket is a small village between a “rocky road in the mountains” and a “rocky riverbed.” There are no beautiful gardens in this area… there is no good soil to grow gardens. What little land people have has been handed down from generation to generation. There are no jobs in this area and the only...
"Keep on Knocking!" Back in the 1970's and 1980's, a Bible teaching was sweeping across the States. Not to be critical, because many who were teaching this were men of God. However, I could never wrap my brain around it. They were preaching that "you only had to ask God once," because if you asked...
Living here in Haiti has broken our hearts more than you can imagine. Each day that goes by brings another story of a hungry child, a poor mother left to survive with her children, a village that needs food, or medical care… not to mention the challenges of raising [children in] a large Haitian orphanage,...
I can remember the day we found Yonel like it was yesterday. We had been doing a Mobile Clinic in the mountains and a poor, elderly grandma brought Yonel and his sister to us. His sister was too far gone to save and we were not sure Yonel would live. He was like a skeleton!...
We want to thank the Lord for the "good report" that Jasson (Jackson) got today! Tuesday, our driver Philimond drove Jasson across the border of Haiti into the Dominican Republic for some more tests. As many of you know, Jasson had developed severe "Kwashiorkor Malnutrition" when we found him in the mountains of Savaan Pit,...
In Haiti, the sun is almost always blazing bright and hot. It is “too much of a good thing” for tender little vegetable plants to get a start against the intense sunlight. When we started our Agricultural Training Center (ATC), years ago, to teach and demonstrate sustainable gardening in Haiti, a wonderful group of guys...
