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Good morning!
“This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” Psalm 118:24
Today I will fear no evil for the Lord is with us! “For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.” Psalm 91:11
I watch this beautiful sunrise from our Love A Child Children’s Home every morning!
We love you…
Missionary Bobby Burnette
Joseph and his sister, Sarah, were brought to us by one of our workers. Their mother died and their father could not take care of them. As a result, both children had severe malnutrition. But with good care and good food, they both recovered after a long while…
Joseph has always been “quiet,” but a hard worker. He is in his last year of school. He is always working around the Love A Child Children’s Home or doing anything he is asked. He is very respectful. He is now on the “painting team,” and we have plenty of buildings to keep him busy! He is saving his money to buy some property someday.
We have never had any problems with Joseph! He is always kind and respectful to everyone and has never been “a problem teen!” We really love Joseph and his sister, Sarah. They will both go far in their lives!!! Sherry
Elalie Saint-Drin is 22 years old. She is from an area called “Bwademye,” not far from Love A Child. She was still in school when she found out she was pregnant. She knew she could not continue to go to school and take care of a baby because she was already struggling to survive. Elalie’s village has no Maternity Clinic, so she decided she would come to the Love A Child Maternity Clinic (Birthing Center) because she would not have to pay for the delivery.
Our clinic insists that each woman who wants to deliver here must begin to come at four months and come every month so that we can be sure she is safe to deliver. She missed a lot of appointments, so our female doctor asked her, “Why?” She replied, “Well, it’s not my fault. I drink a lot of saltwater to help me make it through the day because I have no money for food. And when I do have a little money and can buy something, I don’t have money to for a tap-tap to get here.”
This morning, she came in around 6:00 and was in serious pain. She noticed a white fluid coming out and she was extremely dizzy. Her whole body was swollen, and her blood pressure was creating a huge problem. They put her in a wheelchair and brought her inside because she could not walk. She was transferred to the delivery room.
The midwife checked her and gave her medication for her blood pressure immediately and then gave her an I.V. She now had severe “pre-eclampsia” (which often kills the mother). They immediately gave her a sonogram, which revealed that she was not yet at the time to give birth. However, they could not find the heartbeat of the baby. After everything they could do, it was discovered that the baby had died in her womb.
This news broke the heart of the young mother and all the midwives as well. They had done “everything they could,” but it was too late.
And to think that she did not have the few “gourdes” (small Haitian currency), to even get to our clinic monthly, nor did she have the money to buy food… so, she drank saltwater, which killed her baby.
These stories will never happen in the States, but they happen in Haiti due to hunger. Thank you, partners, for always sponsoring food to come into Haiti. Let’s keep “helping the poor.” Sherry
Join us in the desolate, mountain villages of Haiti, where you will see a poor grandmother who has had to bury her own daughter, a pain no parent wants to endure; despite her declining health and circumstances she now has five grandchildren to care for. Witness another mother’s heartbreak when her husband’s health is taken from him; as she adapts to a new way of survival, her young son strives to shoulder some of her burdens. But God’s goodness knows no boundaries as we provide life-giving food to these impoverished, forgotten people, all thanks to your generosity.
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“Wisdom is Better Than Weapons of War…” (Part Two)
Tuesday morning, we told the story in 1st Samuel 25 about David and his men in times of battle. King Saul had been chasing them, probably for several years. David and his men were renegades, hiding in caves in the hills and trying to stay out of the path of King Saul, who wanted to kill David. King Saul’s jealousy over David was driving him insane… So David and his men are on the run. David now finds out that a rich man, Nabal, whom David and his men had befriended and protected, now, refused to give David’s men water and food provisions… They were hungry, and Nabal owed David. But now, Nabal is mocking David’s men, who are loyal, and hungry and need food. David has just found out how Nabal treated his men, and he is “on the warpath!” Have you ever been so angry, you were on the warpath? You just wanted to get even?
As David and his men are riding faster than a speeding bullet, Nabal’s “drop-dead” beautiful wife hears the story. Here is where wisdom comes in. She sends mules packed with food, dressed sheep, corn, raisins, wine, bread, figs, etc., the finest of everything she had. She sent her servants with all this stuff before her and then she came last. David and his men saw all these donkeys coming with food, and wine, lots of it! She dresses in her best and comes softly on her donkey and bows on the ground before him. She says, “let this iniquity be upon me,” David. She tells David that she knew nothing about this and that she knew that David’s men had helped their herdsmen when they were attacked! She apologizes for her stupid husband, and she says, when the Lord “shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel; That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offense of heart unto my lord… that thou has shed blood causeless.” Here she is, using her wisdom, to calm David, who has his sword drawn, ready to kill her husband!
It worked! David and his men got their food. Abagail went home to her foolish husband. And wisdom saved the day…
Fast forward: Just a day or two passed and Abagail doesn’t tell her husband until he has a party and gets drunk! When she tells him what she did, he got so angry that he had a heart attack and died… and guess what? David went back and found that beautiful woman and married her! Well, I can truly say, “Wisdom is Better Than Weapons of War!”
So, the next time you get angry and want to go on the warpath, remember Abagail… Nabal was dead, and she would now be the wife of David, soon to be King! God bless you and use wisdom… it is “Better Than Weapons of War!”
Sherry
Today, Jesse Ostrander, who was with Jasson, called us from the Dominican Republic. It was in regard to the Dominican Doctor who had seen Jasson and was trying to determine if he should have a Kidney Transplant or if there were other options. Jesse, who was with the Dominican Doctor from the Dominican Republic, was on the phone with our doctor, Dr. Barthelemy, who works at our Jesus Healing Center. He has all Jasson’s records. They talked on the phone because Jesse had questions from the Dominican Doctor regarding blood work, etc. He passed the information on to Jasson’s doctor, who is still with him in the Dominican Republic. We should know more by tomorrow.
Dieuferly is doing fine after the doctor took out all those huge, steel pins in his foot. We pray that he will be able to sleep tonight without pain. They will return from the Dominican Republic tomorrow, Lord willing.
We ask your prayers in faith for Jasson and Dieuferly. Jasson is in bad condition. He really needs a miracle!
Thank you for your prayers,
Bobby & Sherry
A few days ago, Philemond, our main driver and faithful worker for many, many years, drove to the Dominican Republic with Joker, our mechanic, Dieuferly, who had the club-foot operation, and Jasson, who has kidney disease, Jasson is about 11.
Jesse Ostrander, missionary and construction worker, flew from the states to the Dominican Republic, to be with Dieuferly and Jasson, because Sherry and I could not make it. Sherry had an abscessed tooth and needed emergency care.
As many of you know, Dieuferly has had several really bad “club foot operations,” in Haiti and has constantly suffered for many years. Our friend in the Dominican Republic, RL, found this wonderful orthopedic doctor for Dieuferly so that he could have an operation on his foot… Dieuferly has been in the DR, resting, for about 6 weeks. His appointment to have those “long pins” in his foot “taken out” was yesterday. That did not go well, as the doctor thought his foot and toes would not be able to feel pain…but he was wrong! It was a horribly painful experience for Dieuferly to have the pins taken out with just a little pain medication. But he made it through!
Today, our team will be taking Jasson to a kidney specialist in the capital to see if he is a candidate for a kidney transplant. So this is what we need to pray about. The good thing is that one of our Love A Child donors has already been touched by the Lord to offer to sponsor this surgery. Let’s pray that Dieuferly’s foot heals well and that we can find the right surgeon and the right “kidney donor” for Jasson!
Sherry and Bobby
YOU ARE NEVER TOO OLD OR HAVE FOUGHT TOO MANY BATTLES NOT TO SAY, “LORD GIVE ME THIS MOUNTAIN!”
I love the story of Caleb… “As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in. ‘Now therefore give me this mountain…’” Joshua 14:11-12
Caleb was an old man (85 years old), but he believed God for the mountain and took it! His friends did not think it was possible. With God all things are possible! Let’s go forward and claim the mountain! Bobby Burnette
Just look at this little beauty! Little Daphline was born in the mountains of Savaan Roche, Haiti, some of the highest mountains we have worked in! Her mother died shortly after she was born and her father gave Daphline to her mother’s sister, (her aunt), whose husband had just been murdered!
She already had nine children, including a new baby, and was not mentally or physically able to raise these two babies. So, Daphline was brought to our Love A Child Children’s Home.
This “girly-looking girl” is beautiful and loves to dance… but, don’t take your chances with her on the basketball court! She is a “tiger!” She is pretty and feminine, but she is serious about winning, and she can scare her “brothers!” Ha!
She is in Junior High and is getting ready to go back to school! She is a great help to all the workers in the orphanage, and helps keep an eye on the little ones! She loves music, and especially cooking!!! And, we all love her! Sherry
