Finding work in Haiti is not easy. All poor mothers and fathers struggle to make an existence for their children… even feeding them one meal a day is difficult. Some are farmers, but the soil is not good and rainfall is minimal. Not enough for a harvest. Some ladies try to wash clothes for others, but the “others” are poor also.
When a mother leaves her hut to go and wash clothes for someone, in order to make money, she often has to leave her little ones at their hut and ask a neighbor to watch them.
Madamn Ellene has a two-year-old son, Watson. She had gone out to work in the field because if she did not, there would be nothing for her child to eat that day. Little Watson was playing at the neighbor’s hut. That woman had a pot of boiling water on the fire outside on the ground, “on three rocks.” He fell into that pot of boiling water, and it burned his whole arm! His mother tried to take him to a hospital, but they would not receive him because the mother had no money to pay. So, Watson’s mother tried putting leaves and mud on his arm.
It became infected…. but someone told her to “take her baby to Love A Child,” and she would not have to pay anything! She did!
Dr. Barthelemy and his staff had to scrub off the embedded charcoal and other things his mother had put on him. Then, he bandaged up the wound, gave her antibiotics, and lots of other medications, and told her to bring him back.
We are so thankful to Joyce Meyer Ministries – Hand of Hope for sponsoring our Jesus Healing Center each month, without fail. Watson and his mother are just a tiny few of the many, many mothers, fathers, and children that have been saved, and healed at our Jesus Healing Center! We are so grateful for our little Pastor, Luckner, who is always there to pray with the patients and tell them about the “Great Physician!”
The Haitian Creole Proverb says that “’Cows Without Tails,’ God will chase away the flies for them!”
Sherry
