Sandraline's father was a bicycle repairman. His wife died after giving birth to Sandraline. Her father had to pay a lady to take care of his baby… and soon, he found out he did not have the money for milk and to pay a lady to take care of the baby. At nine months old, Sandraline...
Thousands of families in Haiti are trying to recover from the recent earthquake and storm with heavy rains. Many of you are helping with extra donations for earthquake relief, tents, tarps, food, etc. Thousands of families have been left with nothing. Last week we received a large donation of 5,000 packs of special garden seeds...
We just got a scratchy phone call from Bobby and Sherry explaining that the communication service in Haiti must be down. They had been trying to call out to us and send emails since last night but can not get anything out. Please excuse their absence from our website and Facebook during this internet problem....
“Then he said to his disciples, 'The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.'" Matthew 9:37-38 There are 195+ countries in the world today. The Lord has told us to pray that the laborers would go into the harvest...
The last two days here in Haiti, things have been going downhill. The gangs are on the streets again. The area of Martissaint had been open, but now, the gangs are furious. They blocked the area of Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, yesterday, when we had three children trying to get to a hospital for exams. Our truck...
"For I will restore..." I have said this scripture to myself so many times... “And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you." (Joel 2:25) I had to run and look up the word "restore." It means...
Moses will be in the 9th grade this fall. I remember the day that our Haitian Director, Nelio, called us while we were at our old, broken-down rented orphanage. He said, "Sherry, an old man found a baby. The mother went to an outhouse to give birth and dropped him down the hole. The old man heard a...
Tent update for earthquake victims: We have received enough money for a little over 2,100 tents! This is including the double matching grant for tents. Our goal was 1,000 tents. We have way surpassed the goal!! We are good for tents. Today, we are purchasing 1,500 tents from Bass Pro Headquarters. Sent the money today for a missionary to buy...
We have been receiving wonderful donations of medical supplies from World Vision and MAP International. We have been sharing these supplies with the Department of Health in Haiti and also with various hospitals and organizations who work in the Medical Field. This morning as we began to load a box truck with supplies from World...
This week on Love a Child TV in “The Harvest is Ripe,” Bobby and Sherry Burnette take an exploratory trip to see the poverty in Mon Deral, Haiti. A place where a chair is an unheard-of luxury, access to water is infrequent, and people sleep on their bellies to evade their inescapable hunger pains. You’ll...
