Thank you for your prayers. Casimi made it with the last part of the tents, tarps, and earthquake emergency supplies. He arrived late yesterday afternoon, after hours. He jumped out of our semi, jumped on the forklift, and unloaded everything fast.

Casimi said, “I have to go and try to pick up our containers of Feed My Starving Children food.”

He said the roads are not good, but better yesterday. Gangs control the roads.

Yesterday we found a boat to take us and all the tents, tarps, and emergency supplies to Jeremie.

The captain gave me a preacher’s discount. The highest price!! Ha! He said only $20,000! No, he must come down in his price.

We are hoping to be able to leave next week for Jeremie, working through Mayor Yvrose. She already has the locations where all the tents will go into the interior… the forgotten ones.

Thank you, again, for everyone who bought tents, tarps, sent in emergency earthquake supplies.

We are doing this together. Love you.

Missionary Bobby Burnette

Here is Mark Ostrander’s crew building for the future! John Eddie is the head of our Haitian crew, and we are building rooms to house future mission teams to come into Haiti. Due to all the gangs, riots, kidnapping, etc., we have not been able to any have teams in now for two years or more. Everything appears doom and gloom for poor Haiti. I told Mark and the Haitian guys, “Let’s look to the future of Haiti… Let’s start building team housing. Mission teams will be coming again to Haiti!!!” We don’t have the money to build this, but we are building by faith! By faith, I see Haiti having peace and prosperity, and being a Christian nation.

By faith, things will be better… – Missionary Bobby Burnette

Haiti is a country with many problems, especially the lack of security. There are so many gangs on the streets, and even when there are not gangs, there are roadblocks! Yesterday, as some of our workers were coming in, they had rocks being thrown, fire at roadblocks, etc. With the instability, the danger is everywhere…

Here is a list of Love A Child kids that are now in college… You can see that we have twenty!!! (That should give any parent a nervous breakdown!!) A long time ago, when we were building our orphanage, Bobby wanted it to be beautiful. But many people told us, “If you build it to be beautiful, people will not give.” But the Lord told Bobby, “You are raising “thoroughbreds!””

As the children grew, they all had dreams… and now, their dreams are coming true…

We have a “big family,” and all these children risk their lives every single day to “walk to school” or “catch a tap-tap” in some of the most dangerous areas of Haiti… but they feel their future is at stake, and so, they trust in the Lord…

Thank you, partners, for praying, giving, and sacrificing so that these children, who love the Lord, can make a difference.

Bobby and Sherry

Another warm tent story of a family (along with other families) receiving a tent in the earthquake zone. Giving out all of these tents has really touched our hearts deeply. Cannot thank everyone enough who helped with these tents. So far we’ve given out 1,500 tents in the Department de Nippes. Very soon 500 more tents will go to Jérémie and up into the interior for the forgotten ones. We are trying to get our tent container on the road from the port through the gangs, diesel fuel issues, and then find a boat that has diesel for our voyage. Through all of this, we are dealing with gangs and kidnappings. Thank you for your prayers and vital support. – Bobby Burnette

From our friend Watson Balmyr:

Good morning Sir Bobby & Mrs. Sherry,

May God Bless you I hope you’ve rested a little bit! Despite the difficulties currently in the Country (insecurities, no Gazolines) we continue to help families living in poor conditions in the south of Haiti. Yesterday Hubert and his staff visited two areas about 3 hours driving to go to (JIRO and MONN TEROZNA) in the NIPPES. These people never received any visits since the earthquake, until now with Love A Child distribution tents. Hubert distributed more than 20 tents but that is not enough and probably this week the staff will be back again to serve the other people who continue to sleep outside.

God bless you and LOVE A CHILD!

Blessings,
Watson

With all four corners of the country in Haiti in “lock-down,” many of the clinics have closed their doors. This could be due to gang violence all around the clinic or hospital, or it could be because people are afraid to travel on the streets because of the gangs. Some Haitians said, “When they enter our Clinic, they know they are not dead because now, they have a chance to live.”

The majority of Haitians are poor and have no jobs, and those that have jobs, cannot go to work because there is no fuel left in the country! Even when their children are sick, they cannot take them to the hospital because they have no money.

Little Phanaika is four months old. Her mother, Madamn Pierre, is from Nakou, a village not far from us. With five children, life is very difficult [for her] in Haiti… Madamn Pierre had put little Phanaika in her “basket” on the ground and went into the kitchen to try to find food for her four-year-old, who was crying. While Madamn Pierre was there trying to comfort her four-year-old, a thoughtful neighbor brought her some “bean sauce” for the children. It was “boiling hot!”

The little four-year-old was so hungry; she grabbed the bowl of “boiling hot sauce!” She started to drink it and screamed because it burned her hands. She dropped the hot bean sauce on the baby! For five days, the baby suffered, screaming from the burns, but Madamn Pierre had no money for a doctor or medicine. So, she crushed rice and eggshells and smothered them into the burns! When she saw that the child was growing worse, she didn’t know what to do until someone told her about our Jesus Healing Center!

As soon as she arrived, she was taken to Wound Care, and there, Dr. Leneus Etzer was there to take over. He had to remove all the “crusted, dry rice, and the eggshells” that had been mixed in also! It was very painful for the baby and tough for the doctor and nurses. He cleaned her so well and afterward put Silvadene on it and gave her pain medicine.
She was given other medicines to take home and told to come back to be checked.

We don’t know what we would do without the monthly support of Joyce Meyer Ministries – Hand of Hope!

And, special thanks to our friends at MAP International for all that great medicine!!! Each time we get a pallet, it’s like “opening presents at Christmas!”

Thank you, partners, for caring for the sick and for feeding the hunger here in Haiti. We need you now, more than ever before.

God bless you,
Bobby and Sherry