If it had not been for the Lord and our wonderful Love A Child midwives, we would have lost a baby and a mother…

Today, there were fewer pregnant women at the Birthing Center due to the assassination of President Moïse. The streets had an “eerie calm,” and almost everyone worried about going out onto the streets. Only those who really needed medical help and the mothers who were near delivery made it out. Such was  the case of Mdm Gerilus Dieulène.

It was dark, and the sun had not yet risen. Mdm Dieulene made her way in great pain to our maternity clinic along with 26 other women, braving the streets. This mother is 34 years old and has four children. She comes from an area called “Bouley” and has a small business selling items. It is “barely enough” to feed her family. When she arrived, our midwives checked her and saw that she had high blood pressure, her feet were swollen, and she could not walk at all. She told the mid-wives that her “bones even hurt,” which was due to the high blood pressure. (Many Haitian women have high blood pressure, and they cannot afford the medicines for this, but our Birthing Center covers all medications). She was on the verge of “pre-eclampsia,” which is life-threatening. They gave her medicine to prevent a seizure. At 1:10 am, she gave birth to a healthy little girl, 3.3 kilos. Had she not been here, she and her baby would have both died.

Now, She has a beautiful bundle in her arms and nice baby clothes and items from one of our partners. Now, she is ready to go home with the blessings of God upon her life!

We thank God for our wonderful staff and the sweetest partners God could ever give us!!!

Thank you, and God bless you,

Sherry

Your calling from God may require you to walk away from something important to you.

Comfort is habit-forming.

James and John walked away from their fishing business. They were mending their nets when they had to obey the call of God. They left their nets, fishing boat, and their father to follow Jesus. (Matthew 4:21-22)

The calling of God may require you to leave the comfort of your home, family, and relatives. “Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee.” (Genesis 12:1)

Ruth left her country. “And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.” (Ruth 1:16-17)

“There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel’s, but he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.” (Mark 10:29-30)

Are you willing to pay the price and obey the calling of God in your life? You may even be called to be a missionary.

Bobby Burnette

Dr. Roselyne? What a wonderful young lady we have raised! We are so proud of Roselyne. She is studying to be a doctor. She is in her first year of college, but she studies “day and night.” When she comes home to Love A Child, she volunteers in the clinic to learn everything she can. She is like a “little sponge!” All of the doctors, nurses, and patients love her!!

Years ago, when she was very small, her father brought her to our Mobile Medical Clinic in Lastik because her legs were very crooked. We told him we would take her back with us and see what we could do…but, at that time, there were no physical therapists here in Haiti. But God started to do a miracle. As she grew, her legs began to straighten out! Now, she is “one tall, beautiful young lady” who will be a Love A Child doctor someday!!

The first thing Roselyne does each morning is to get on her knees and see the Lord! We are so proud of her!!!! To all our wonderful friends and partners, thank you for “planting a seed” in good, rich soil in the lives of these children!

Sherry

You may recall that about two months ago, a good donor sent us two 50-pound sacks of millet seeds to trial for our chicken feed project to help remote villages support free-range chickens for eggs and meat.

Yesterday, Wilner and his team harvested the first of the trial millet.  It seems to have been a great success!  See these pictures showing the good crop of millet, the harvest, and the seeds collected to ensure future planting.

From this one donation of seeds, we will be able to provide millet seeds to poor, remote villages to grow stands of millet for their free-ranging chickens to supplement their feed from foraging. In addition, we are trying to find ways that families can have animal protein from local chicken varieties, but in ways that require very little inputs.

They cannot afford expensive coop structures or purchased products for raising the chickens. Remote families often have chickens that run free, but there are almost no natural food sources for them, and the people have no money to buy prepared feed from stores. This project will let them grow millet and harvest enough seeds for the next planting but leave the rest of the crop standing for the chickens to forage for their own food.

We gave some of the donated trial seeds to Farmer John to grow in a different method from Wilner’s trial at the Agricultural Training Center. Wilner’s trial was planted in rows as if it were a row crop. Farmer John’s seed was broadcast in a larger space.  We will soon compare the results so we can give the best advice to the poor families who deserve our help as they strive for their own sustainability.

This is helping Haitians to help themselves provide food for life.  God bless you for supporting our sustainability projects.

Rad Hazelip, Assistant Executive Director

“Judge not, that ye be not judged…” Matthew 7:1
When my mother was alive, she was a “saint.” She never spoke ill of anyone, and she loved every one, but most of her friends were kinda “nutty.” She had one friend, who was supposed to be a “lady preacher.” I will just call her Wanda. Wanda had long, straggly dark hair, a wart on her nose, and bad breath, but she always claimed to be so holy. (But, she really liked men!) One day, Bobby and I were sitting in a little restaurant, eating, when Madamn “Holier-than-thou” walked in. I looked at Bobby, hoping she would not come to our table, because she always had a “word from the Lord” for us, and it was never good! She looked at me and said, “Sister Burnette, the Lord told me to tell you that you wear too much make-up and you are going to hell!” I looked at Bobby, who tried to keep on eating, not saying a word. I said, “Sister Wanda, it may be a sin for some of us to wear make-up, but it is a greater sin for some of us not to wear make-up!” She got so mad and huffed away. Some people go around judging all the time. We only have one judge, and His name is Jesus. Today, He is our Savior! Tomorrow, He is our Judge! Have a great day. Sherry

We are so blessed to have “Lovely” in our family. As some of you may know, someone told us about Lovely when she was a baby. Her mother had died, and her father abandoned her. (We were told her mother died of AIDS, but we are not sure). An elderly lady told us about her, and we came and brought her to our orphanage.

Lovely is gracious, sweet, and kind to everyone. She loves to sing, and the Lord has blessed her with a golden voice. Unfortunately, she has had some severe health problems since we found her, and she is on medication and has to make trips to a hospital far away.  She has one more year of school left, and her dream is to be a lawyer to defend the poor. Lovely is all “girl!” She loves to do her nails and keep up with “the newest hair-do.”

Lovely has “great faith in God!” One evening, while our children had service at night, the spirit of God came upon Lovely! I had never seen anything like it…she began to “preach!” While she was preaching, she began to say, “I know the Lord will heal me! I know the Lord will heal me!!” All of us went away praising God!! This would indeed take a miracle, but God is a God of miracles!!

Let’s just see what the Lord will do!

Sherry

“If we doubt we will do without: But let that man ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded-man man is unstable in all his ways.” James 1: 6-8

If we believe we shall receive. If we bout we will do without! If you can conceive, and believe we will receive!

Lord, I believe today!!! Run devil run!!

Missionary Bobby Burnette