“Celebrate the Festival of Harvest with the first fruits of the crops you sow." Exodus 23:16 Today was the graduation ceremony for the students in our Agricultural Training Center’s (ATC) 3-week Sustainable Gardening in Haiti training class. These 8 students, who came from very different areas all around Haiti, have achieved a lot during the...
Feeding hungry children is what we do. If you have ever watched hungry children closely, as they eat, most times, they will lick the sides of the bowls, scraping up each kernel of rice and licking their fingers again! When we first moved to Haiti and started feeding hungry children, we went to so many...
"Don't Look Back..." "...No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God." Luke 9:62 We have had those who have come to Haiti to help and serve...some of them didn't realize the meaning of this scripture. There were always those "who kept looking back." Jesus...
He's Already "Got the Job!" Fritzner Burnette is one of the sweetest young teenage boys I have ever met! He is now 13 years old and in fifth grade! He is so sweet and quiet. He is gentle and loves to help the "moms" in the kitchen! (He's not dumb! Ha!) Fritzner was born in...
Join Bobby and Sherry Burnette and the Love A Child team this week as the Malnutrition Center prepares to open to help save malnourished babies in Haiti. See first hand the stories of several children who have been found as severely malnourished babies, but with your gifts to Love A Child have been able to...
"Feeding A lot of Orphanages..." Just look at these precious Haitian children eating a full meal at their Christian school in a poor area of Haiti. These children are under the care of Pastor Charlier. Pastor Charlier is one of the many organizations that receive food each month due to the support of our friends...
"Helping Haiti take care of itself..." Yesterday was a huge day for the students at our three-week training course on “Sustainable Gardening in Haiti.” Look at all that they experienced yesterday. They worked in the large gardens preparing new raised beds to receive new seeds and starter plants; they harvested many green peppers and spinach;...
Don't pass by on the other side… I love the story in the Bible that speaks of loving your neighbor and the Good Samaritan. You know the story... “A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. And...
Sweet young Mackenson has really struggled all of his life... Born in “Covant,” the highest mountain village that we work in, that in itself would have been enough of a challenge to survive, but Mackenson has faced many other challenges in his life. While doing a Mobile Medical Clinic, I looked up to see a...
“The Story of Jocelin…What Food and Love Can Do…” It was early one morning when someone knocked on our Children’s Home door here in Haiti. They said that our security guard had caught a thief that broke into a wall at our old clinic. I went down with the guard. When I arrived, there was a huge...
