Wiggins (Jacque) is nine years old and in third grade. He loves to play soccer and basketball. He loves school and his favorite subject is math. He is the brother of Fabiola. He is not a child who smiles all the time but, rather, is more serious. When his mother died, his "stepfather" could not...
Just look at all these dishes our Haitian daughter cooked up! Widlene’s high school class, Rheto, had a party at our school. Our girls did all the cooking and wow!!! Their food trays looked great! As I have said before, “our girls love to cook... because they love to eat! Ha!” We are so proud...
Good morning from our Love A Child Children’s Home! “This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” Psalm 118:24 The Lord has made this day, and I will rejoice and not fear. We are walking in his Word today, with his angels around us… Bobby Burnette
"Imagine giving a child away, because you can't feed them all." Betina was born after the 2010 earthquake in Cité Soleil, Haiti. Anyone who knows Haiti knows what a dangerous area this is. Betina came from a large family and there wasn’t enough food for everyone. Her parents abandoned her. Betina was "rescued" by some...
"Work, while it is day, for the night cometh when no man can work." We teach our children to "work." Usually, the girls are working in the kitchen, ironing, scrubbing the floors, or cooking, and the boys are washing the car, sweeping, picking up trash, cleaning their rooms, etc. (Of course, for the older children,...
We wish to thank our friends who help us so much with the Birthing Center. First of all, special thanks to MAP International, for all the pregnancy vitamins. We had to reassure the mothers that the vitamins would give them good health! Haitians don't understand some things... they first thought the vitamins would make the babies...
The Answer is "No!" None of us like to hear this word "no." It is so definite, so final... The Lord spoke to Jeremiah about things that would come to pass, saying, "Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: Is there anything too hard for me?" Jeremiah 32:27 The answer is "no, there is nothing,...
We first met Raphael, and his sisters Bianca and Ada, when their aunt brought them all the way from Cap-Haitien. We heard the story that their parents were killed when a Haitian boat, going to the States with illegals, overturned, and everyone drowned. The aunt said she could no longer care for them and asked...
Michelene has been with us since she was about five years old. Michelene is a really talented young girl with a good head on her shoulders. She left Haiti to go to the Dominican Republic (DR). She learned Spanish and got a job, so she speaks fluent English, French, Creole, and Spanish. She has had...
This week, Love A Child brings food into an extremely dangerous and violent area in the garbage dump village of Truttier, Haiti. Watch as Bobby and Sherry and their team put on the armor of God, go against the advice of local authorities, and risk their own lives to feed these poor families who sometimes...
