Love A Child takes you into the villages that work tirelessly to make the mud cookies that they and other impoverished villagers eat to stave off hunger pains. Your heart will break as you see children born into this mud cookie reality. Fathers spend all their lives harvesting the rock to make these cookies; mothers spend their days soaking, sifting, and shaping them; and now they must raise their children to perform the same dangerous and demanding tasks for the sake of survival. These children have no prospect of attending school, playing, or having a bowl of food for dinner. We can change this cycle of poverty; it starts with one box of food!

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Every day should be “Thanksgiving!” Look what the Lord has done for us! Every day, He loads us with His blessings!

“O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.” Psalm 136:1

 Some days I do not ask the Lord for anything. He has done so much for us that I just want to praise Him! Let’s make every day “Thanksgiving” to the Lord! Sherry

“Danielo” (Daniel) came from the village of Old Letant. His mother had died and his father was caring for him, but someone hit his father in the head with a large rock and he died… leaving the village people to care for him. This was a poor village and everyone tried to give him enough to stay, but they begged us to take him… and we did.

Danielo was a strange little boy. When we first sent him to school, he would not stay in his chair. The teacher even tied him to his chair, but he always escaped and wandered around. I would say it was a “spiritual problem,” but thank God, he became better. He struggles in school because he does not like school. He does not work well in groups and is better “one-to-one.”

He really has a sweet personality and will do anything he is told, and is working hard, but still struggles more than the other children in school. Since we have two “Daniels” the kids call him Danielo. He has his own little personality and is a really sweet boy. If you give him a job and compliment him on his good work, he will always do better. We love him…

All our children here are “different.” That is why God sent them this way to us. Sherry

“God Cannot Lie”

Have you ever felt in your heart that God was going to do something in your life? Maybe it was a “calling,” or maybe you were praying about a marriage or a job, and God brought it to pass. His Word is so powerful, that GOD CANNOT LIE! You may think that you can run from God, but you cannot. Once God puts His finger on your life and calls you to do something, you cannot run, and you cannot hide from God.

Years ago, Bobby and I began our ministry preaching on the street corners to the poor in African American communities. (They were the only ones that would let us preach on the street corners. Thank the Lord!) Sometimes, we ministered in small churches. Offerings were low because the people themselves were poor. We just always thought we would be doing “evangelistic work.”

One time, when our children were very small, we were in a little church in Melbourne, Florida. The church had a lady pastor, and she was such a woman of God. They were having a revival and we went to hear the evangelist. On about the second night, the evangelist was preaching and suddenly, he pointed to “a young couple,” and asked us to stand up. He did not know us at all, but he began to tell us that God was going to use us in another area of ministry. He said, “I see you in a foreign country with many little black children around you in a two-story orphanage.” Bobby and I sat down in shock! We didn’t talk until we got to our car. We said, “Well, that will never come to pass. We don’t know anything about a foreign country, and we would never have an orphanage!” We thought that maybe he was a false prophet… We just “set that experience on the shelf.” We didn’t even think about it until time went on by.

Years later, we moved to Haiti, started an orphanage in a small, rented house, and then built our big, two-story orphanage in Fond Parisien. We were on the top balcony one evening, looking out at the children playing, and all of a sudden, it hit us both! It was like the Lord said, “Don’t ever doubt my Word!”

“God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent…” Numbers 23:19 

The Lord will always keep His promise. He will always keep His word! Have a wonderful day!

Sherry

All our children have come from the worst cases imaginable. Jean Edwouard was one of them… He was a restavek slave child. In fact, he was in a small village not far from us where we have a food distribution each month.

As Bobby was busy with the team, I noticed a cute little boy, about five or six years old, cooking food over a hot charcoal fire. He said that he had started the fire and had to cook some food for the family he was living with. This automatically means that he is a slave child… A child whose mother and father died, or perhaps a mother that died and the father abandoned. When this happens, the child is usually sent to a family member (uncle, aunt, etc.) to “work for them.” That child will do all the hard work, including carrying large heavy buckets of water for miles, fetching sticks to make a fire, washing clothes, cooking, and much more. They will never be allowed to go to school or have a happy life. This was “Jean Edwouard.”

We brought him to Love A Child and immediately put him in school. He did very well. As he grew up, some of the boys at the orphanage asked him to “alter their pants.” This meant “sewing by hand.” One of the house mothers gave him a needle and some thread and that was it! He fell in love with “sewing.” He now has a little sewing business, a couple of sewing machines, and one other person to help. He is also in his first year of college.

Jean Edwouard has a sweet, quiet nature. He likes everything “clean!” (I wish all the boys were like that!!) He sews and alters my clinic uniforms and does much more. He also loves to “dress up.” Everything “matches!!!” He is our “Number Two Guy” with a “passion for fashion!” We love him! He is sweet, kind, obedient, and quiet!!

Sherry