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Sherry and I left Haiti yesterday and arrived here in Tucson at 1:30 a.m. Today we drove down near the border of Mexico. It is truly unbelievable what is happening.

On the way back, about 40 miles from Tucson on a back road, I looked up and across the whole road it said, “Border of Mexico.” We saw Border Patrol people all across the road. I asked Sherry, “Isn’t our GPS working? We don’t want to enter Mexico… just get back to our hacienda! How did we get this lost?” Come to find out they were there looking for illegals trying to come into Tucson.

Tomorrow, we will drive to Phoenix, then the next day drive and meet our children and grandchildren at the beautiful Grand Canyon for Thanksgiving. Our children and grandchildren have sacrificed sharing us with the children of Haiti and its people for many years.

We miss Haiti with all of its problems, terribly. We miss our Haitian children and the life of “helping someone every day.” We are so excited about building houses now for the earthquake victims who lost everything. Another step of Faith!

Bobby and Sherry Burnette

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Sweet Mika… a New Fad

We have so many children in our “Children’s Home,” that we sometimes have two children with the same name, i.e. Mika. She is the original Mika, whose sister is Mikalange. We have another Mika… we have Samuels, etc.

Mika is the quieter of her twin, Mikalange. She is in junior high school and doing very well in school, as our other children are. Mika is a hard worker, likes to clean her closet, and keeps things neat. She also loves music, is learning to play the keyboard, and loves taking care of smaller children. She wants to be a pediatrician!!

Well, I have seen several of my girls “with one strap missing,” on their skirts! I couldn’t figure it out until the other day, I saw Mika undo the strap, right before she went to school. Then, on the way back to school one day, I saw a whole bunch of young girls with “one strap.” It’s either a fad or, it means something… I will let you know!

The other day, someone sent in some clothes for our older girls and everyone was so thankful. What they wanted most, “was church clothes!” So, thank you, those of you who have sent in dresses and skirts, etc. for Mika and all the girls to share. They “love” dressing up for church! Mika is so sweet… a good girl! We love her so much!!!

Sherry

 

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We Work for Food

We see a lot of those signs up nowadays, but people in the states do not fully understand the words, “work for food.” But, these Haitian people and children do. They are under the guidance of their spiritual leader, Pastor Souffrance. He has organized entire hungry villages to come out and fix all the mountain roads in the area of Peyi Pouri. Peyi Pouri is not a tiny village. It is a huge area spreading all the way to the Dominican Republic border. When the last “heavy rain,” came, it took away all the roads up in the area.

This meant that we can’t get food to these areas, and we cannot do a Mobile Clinic until the roads are fixed. Yesterday, we showed the little children working, but today, here are the parents, the elderly, the lame… everyone has something in their hand, or, they will dig rocks away, while the others are using the big “wou,” (hand-made heavy hoe). It is extremely hard, tedious work in the mountains… but they are doing it with joy!

Soon our food trucks will be coming and soon we will be able to do that Mobile Clinic! So, when your teenagers complain about “mowing the yard,” or other hard work, please show them these pictures… they could have been born in Haiti.

Thank you, partners, who help fund the Feed My Starving Children food that we take to mountain villages and other areas of Haiti. The Haitian people love you and appreciate you, Bobby and Sherry

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Word from the Mission Field

This is an important message for someone reading this right now, who is in an “impossible situation.”

After the ten plagues that the Lord put upon Pharaoh, of Egypt, the last one, killing his son, Pharaoh decides reluctantly to let the Israelites go! – Exodus 14

As they head to the Red Sea to escape their threats of Egypt, the Lord causes the Red Sea to “stand up in great heaps on both sides,” like two great walls of “Red Sea water,” just standing upright!!! The Israelites hurry across the “dry land,” but the Egyptians pursued hard after them. They turned around to see all the thousands of Egypt’s finest chariots and horses coming after them at a speed no one can imagine… the great noise of the chariots and the horse’s hoofs pounding. It looked like “they were going to die,” after all they had been through.

The Bible says, “In the morning watch, the Lord looked unto the host the of the Egyptians through the pillar of the fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians, and took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel!” Yes! They were in trouble! They were stuck in the middle of the Red Sea, their chariot wheels had all fallen off and they were in the middle of the Red Sea, facing the God of Miracles!

But God told Moses to stretch forth his hand over the Red Sea, “the waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen, there remained not so much as one of them!”

You may be in an “impossible situation,” but God has placed you where “there is no way out but God!” Why? Because He is getting ready to deliver you and give you a miracle! Hang in there! Help is on the way!

Sherry

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Yonel the Painter

We first found Yonel during a Mobile Medical Clinic many years ago. His father and mother had died, and he and his sister were left in the hands of their grandmother. She brought Yonel and his sister to us, but his little sister was too far gone. We brought Yonel back from the brink of starving from malnutrition.

When he finished school, he thought he wanted to be a diesel mechanic, but he wasn’t interested. Later, we hired him to be a part of our painting crew! He is so happy!! Now, he and the crew are painting our church!! Wow! What a great job!! We are so proud of Yonel and all the crew!! We love them all!!

Sherry

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“God’s Little Children…”

Little mountain children in Haiti are so precious. They are “God’s precious little children”… They have a hard life and yet, they manage to smile, even when they are working hard, or hungry.

These little sweeties helped their parents “make a road through the mountains,” so that we will be able to take food there and also, do a Mobile Medical Clinic.

The mountain people eat a lot of “bread and sugar water,” when they are working. In the late afternoon, they will cook a big meal of “ti pa nou” (Feed My Starving Children food), and then, they will keep on working.

Heavy rains this year washed out all of the roads, so even “four-wheel drives” cannot make it. So, our Food Trucks cannot make it, either… Once the roads are repaired, we can take the food most of the way, and then, mules will help them the rest of the way.

We just love the children of Haiti. There is a Creole Proverb that says, “A Haitian smiles even when he should be crying.”

We want to say, “Special thanks to Pastor Souffrance for his tremendous leadership and hard work” in organizing this “road crew!”

We love the Haitian people so much.

Bobby and Sherry

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A Big Step of Faith: Houses for Earthquake Victims

Thank you…

After the earthquake, we’ve passed out tons of food in southern Haiti.

Up until today, we have given out 1,700 family tents! In the pictures, you will see a blind lady by the name of Madam Merselia. Her granddaughter saved her life when her house fell on top of her. Sherry and I will never forget the day when we gave Madam Merselia her tent to live in! She was so happy!

We have 500 more tents still for Jeremie when it is safe to travel there.

After this, I thought we would be done helping the earthquake victims in southern Haiti.

I could not sleep at night thinking and worrying about the people in the tents.

A big step of faith! The Lord has told me to start building the people whom we gave the tents to a “new house.”

“Don’t know how many, but as many the Lord supplies the money for.” We started yesterday. These are the first pictures of the work.

We are going to build a three-bedroom, living room, kitchen, and front porch, with what is called the Gabion house. There are some in Haiti now and not one fell during the earthquake! It’s a very strong house.

Without you and our friends, we can’t do this alone. We are doing this together for the poor families.

What I really love is that the house will be built with local materials, local labor (many jobs) … and shipping nothing in from America.

The cost of each home is $9,000. Please pray what the Lord would have you do.

Supply the money for one house or several houses.

Give the widow’s mite, $25, 50, $100, or what the Lord lays upon your heart.

Go to our website and find our phone number, address, etc. www.loveachild.com

Office Phone for Donations: 239-210-6107

Please mail letters and contributions to:

Love A Child, Inc.
PO Box 60063
Fort Myers, Florida 33906-6063

Praise the Lord! Pastor Gregory Dickow’s Church “Life Changers International” has given money for the first five houses to be built. Thank you, Pastor Gregory, and all our friends who will help on this project of faith. We are so excited!!

Missionary Bobby Burnette

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Word from the Mission Field

“Skating on Thin Ice”

I grew up in Pennsylvania… Bobby always says that “if his father ever knew he married a ‘Yankee,’ he would turn over in his grave!” We were a poor family of five children. We lived “in the woods.” It was a small town but in the woods! When it snowed, it snowed hard! I can remember going to church or someone’s house after it had snowed, but then according to the weather, the ground would turn to ice! If you have never walked on slippery ice, you have no idea how hard it is to keep your balance, especially if you’re used to the south. When we go to visit our family in California during the winter, it is snowing and icy. I must be very careful “not to fall,” because I have broken my back in Haiti twice, and the doctor told me that “I can never break it again.”

In our Christian life, we sometimes “walk in places” where it becomes slippery. We go through trials and struggles, heartaches, and sometimes we feel as if we “could fall in at any time.” But the Bible says, “Now unto Him that is able to keep you from falling…” (Jude 1:24) This doesn’t mean just “falling into sin,” but to keep you from “falling.” God still has a hold of your hand! HE WILL NEVER LET GO, EVEN WHEN YOU ARE “SKATING ON THIN ICE!” You are never, never out of His sight, and you are never “out of His hand!” Have a great day, and remember that the Lord is with you 24/7, always holding on to your hand!!

Sherry

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Update on Jasson (Jackson)

Jasson is doing better since his trip to the Dominican Republic. As many of you know, Jasson has severe kidney problems due to the kwashiorkor malnutrition he had when we found him years ago. Jesse Ostrander worked very hard to find Jasson the right doctor in the Dominican Republic (DR). The doctor he had in Haiti wanted to put him on dialysis as an adult, but the doctor in the DR said he should be treated as a child. (These are all his medications and vitamins, minus one we still have to get.) We will be buying a dialysis machine in the DR, thanks to one of our partners! PTL!

When we get this machine, he will be on peritoneal dialysis. The machine will pump the chemicals as he sleeps instead of an IV drip several times a day. This works better for us, as well as Jasson, due to all the gangs with guns in the Port-au-Prince area, and other areas of Haiti… where he normally would have been taking dialysis.

Our moms here at Love A Child take good care of Jasson… from all his medicines to his very strict diet. We are doing all we can to see that Jasson has the best life possible. God always has a plan! Sherry

Special thanks to Jesse, who has spent many days and trips to the DR for Jasson!

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ATC – Getting Into Chickens

We are so excited about our LAC Sustainability Agricultural Training Center (ATC) program.

Wilner (the Director) does a great job teaching Haitians how to grow better crops, help themselves, and make money to support their families. Now they are getting into chickens!

Soon this chicken program will be enlarged blessing many Haitians. One student came down the mountain to give us some tomatoes for the children. He had two more bushel baskets of tomatoes to sell! He went away happy and smiling!

Do you know what vegetables are in these pictures?

Love is something you do!

Missionary Bobby Burnette

Begin forwarded message:

From: Wilner Exil
Date: November 17, 2021 at 12:45:19 PM EST
To: Bobby
Subject: ATC small project chickens.

Hello my Big Boss.
How are you? I know all is well.

I’m sending you some pictures as part of the small country ( or local) chicken project we have at ATC. Today we had to buy six chickens, thank God we got it. It is a small demonstration project, so that peasants looking for chickens can be more secure to get more output. How to give more care, more protection without the need for big money or hard work.
Thank you Big Boss for always support Agriculture Training Center ( ATC)
Wilner

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