Sherry and I were scheduled to leave this morning for our 150-miles three-day journey to bring food to a very poor area. When we go there, we feed 1,000 children six days a week a hot meal from our Feed My Starving Children food. We hire the cooks to do for six days a week because the children there are very hungry. We received word from Nelio, our director (who was born in the village,) that it's much too dangerous to travel there today or anytime soon. Very hostile gangs have been taking over the area, shooting, robbing, and kidnapping...with no regard for human life. We were supposed to send our food truck there three days ago to take food but it was much too dangerous. Today we were bringing more food; we just received word last evening that the children are...
“This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” Psalm 118:24 It’s Wednesday morning, so let's rejoice and be glad in it! The devil has already told some of you that you are going to have a bad day. No! This is the day that the Lord...
This is Julia Jeannot, one of our older Love A Child kids. Julia and her sisters Yoland, and Florence, and her brother Frantzo, were all the next four children we took in, after the first set of four brothers and sisters. I had taken care of Julia's mother when she was sick but she later died. Julia's father was a poor man who lived up in the mountains. One day, he came to us and asked us to take in his four children. His wife had died and he could not care for them. When we took Julia in, she had very bad tuberculosis. We had to send her and her sister Florence to...
We just love sharing what God has blessed us with! We give food, not only to many poor villages, but to over 90 other organizations that help feed children, the elderly, and those in fragile conditions. These pictures just came in from Diddi, one of our friends at Mission Haiti Helping Kids. “One organization or mission” cannot do it all. It is too “overwhelming” to think about all the hungry children. But when we tie our cords together, we become stronger! When we put our...
Eat the last cake and die...or give it away and live? I know I shared a scripture from 1 Kings 17:12 just a short time ago, but I woke up in the middle of the night thinking about it, and was honestly upset that Elijah would ask a poor, hungry, starving widow woman for "her last cake." I know that after he asked her for bread, and she let him know that she and her son were starving to...
Our sweet little "Lovely" is growing up! It seems like yesterday, that "Madman Cheap Cheap" met with me to tell me about a baby that had been abandoned by their father. Madamn Cheap Cheap was a dear Haitian lady who sold souvenirs to the missionaries who came to Haiti (Apparently, the mom had HIV or...
We welcome Pastor Mark Ostrander today. He has made over 150 trips here to Love A Child. His son Jesse just left last week. Hardworking is not saying enough. By faith, as the money comes in we will be opening the new Jesus Healing Center by late October or early November. This week we will be out for two or three days distributing food to a village 150 miles away. There are some dangerous gangs in that area. This is...
God will give you an increase! "I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour. For...
We are so proud of Jean Richard! This young many came to us after the earthquake. He had been raised in another orphanage that had been demolished during the earthquake so we took him in. We had no idea Jean Richard would turn out to be such a great musician! He's learned how to play the keyboard, bass guitar, drums, and now, he is teaching many of our children how to play as well! Jean Richard asked me to find out if one of our partners could help him. He has many students here at...
Yesterday, we had a big “orphanage party” at Pastor Claude’s Orphanage. He took his bus and brought kids from “his other orphanage,” too, so there was “a lot!” We brought hot dogs, cokes, etc., and our girls from our Love A Child Children’s Home, helped prepare the food! We all danced and sang, and then,...
