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BE NOT AFRAID!
“… I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. Be strong and of a good courage…” (Joshua 1:5-6)
Do not be discouraged. Don’t give up or quit! At times, we have all felt like this. The Red Sea is about to open up, and you are about to walk across on dry land and receive every promise God has made you.
“Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.” (Joshua 1:9)
Missionary Bobby Burnette
Samuel is one of the sweetest, most hard-working teens you have met. He is “always looking for work!” I can remember the day we took him home.
We were in the mountains having a Mobile Clinic when a poor Haitian father came to us with tears running down his face. His wife had just died in childbirth. Still crying with all his heart, he explained that he had no way of taking care of a new baby in the mountains, with no money to buy milk or food. He already had six hungry mouths to feed. I took the baby from my arms and watched as tears rolled down the face of this poor mountain farmer.
We took him home to our orphanage and named him Samuel. Samuel is now 17, works as a painter, but wants to be an electrician. He loves music and soccer! He is finishing his last year of school. Samuel has been a blessing!!
Sherry
We have “no words” to say “thank you” to our friends at MAP International! This wonderful organization works hard to send medicines and medical supplies to missionaries and other organizations that work with the poor. We have known our friends at “MAP International” for many years, and each year, the Lord blesses them more and more! Why? Because they are a “giving organization!”
They “just sent us” a forty-foot container of medicines, which we are sharing with other missionary organizations. We work together here in Haiti, and they have been helping us for years!
The pictures you see here are just some of the blessings that “MAP” has made possible. We are sharing this medicine with other missionary organizations.
Since the gangs have taken over Haiti, it has been “very difficult” to buy medicines from “downtown Port-au-Prince!” Our trucks have had to “sneak through” gang activities, and they were so afraid each time they left in our trucks! We thank the Lord that this container of medicines “came through the border of the Dominican Republic,” free of gangs! We had been working on this project of having our containers come through the D.R. We are so blessed, thanks to MAP International!
We will be using this wonderful medicine for our upcoming Mobile Clinics. (Each time we prepared medicines for our Mobile Clinic, we had to give them to our Jesus Healing Center Clinic and our Birthing Center.)
MAP is a wonderful Christian-based organization that helps missionaries “around the world!” They are a trustworthy, “platinum” organization. We would invite anyone to check them out and give whatever the Lord lays on their heart!
Now, mothers can bring their children and babies and family members to Jesus Healing Center, our Malnutrition Center, and we will always have a good supply of free medicines! God is good!
Thank you again, MAP! May God continue to bless you as you “Enlarge the place of thy tent and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations; spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes; For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left…” Isaiah 54:2,3
God bless you; we love you.
Missionaries Bobby and Sherry Burnette
This day belongs to the Lord!
“This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” Psalm 118:24
The Lord made this day! I will not fear or doubt! The Lord will put us on top!
God made this day! The best is yet to come!
Bobby Burnette
Joseph (AKA) Bobeto – is a very wise young man!
He was born far into the mountains! He and his sister, Sarah, were brought to us when their mother died! Both had Kwashiorkor Malnutrition, which is very dangerous! It took a long time for Joseph to get to a normal life.
Joseph is now 24! He “loves mechanics,” and his favorite thing to do is play soccer!! I’m sure he will be able to attend a good Mechanical School or college if the gangs leave!
Joseph is humble, kind, and obedient!! We are proud of Joseph and his sister, Sarah!
Please keep these older children in your prayers.
Sherry
You saw our post yesterday from the prison taken last week. Look what the Lord did on Sunday at the prison two days ago! Thank you for making a difference!
Bobby Burnette
“Only their bones are showing” were the words describing the 250 prisoners in the Anse-a-Veau jail in the south of Haiti this weekend. Brother Hubert and his Love A Child team worked hard all night to prepare a nutritious meal, including six pots of rice, four pots of black bean sauce, three pots of vegetables, and five gallons of fresh fruit juice.
Several inmates who were too weak to stand or sit were fed the vitamin-rich cooked vegetables and the black bean sauce while holding their heads up. This level of starvation ushering in a spirit of death and despair has never been witnessed or documented in the entire history of Haiti or the entire Western Hemisphere.
Fifteen of these inmates have already died of starvation; if more food is not delivered, prepared, and served to them, more will die. Our hearts are broken, please pray and ask God how you can be a part.
“How big is God?”
We all have read about Job’s trial… and what a great trial that was… in just a short time, he lost everything. He went from being “the richest man in the east,” with good health and a beautiful family, to “zero.” In just a short time, he lost wealth, his house, his livestock, his children, and his health. He was down to “zero.” Bible scholars say that his trial could have lasted from weeks to many months. We finally see Job covered with boils, taking a broken piece of pottery to scrape his boils. He complained that God had even let him live when all of a sudden God spoke to him…”
God said, “Gird up your loins like a man and answer me. Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?” (Job 38:3-4) God went on to discuss with Job how He had hung the Earth on nothing… God had created the stars and named them. He created the seasons… He talked of His creation of the animals, and how He controls everything!!! When the Lord got through speaking to Job, Job said, “I will lay my hand upon my mouth.” (Job 40:4) Job was saying, “I’m serving a BIG GOD, WHO CREATED EVERYTHING!! I’m ashamed of myself for complaining! God has created everything, and He knows everything!” Your problem is not a “big problem” at all!!! You are serving a God who hung the Earth and the planets on “nothing!!” He keeps everything going! Nothing is hidden from Him, not even your “little bitty problem,” because you are serving A GREAT BIG GOD! Have a wonderful day! Sherry
Georges has been driving since he was 12, but you can almost say, “He’s been driving since he was in diapers!” Ha! Georges can drive “anything that has wheels!” Although he had never had training at “driving semis,” Georges was a “natural!”
He was “given to us” during Hurricane Georges years ago. His mother just did not want another child and his father was abusive to his mother. After Hurricane Georges hit Haiti, we went to check on the baby’s mother. She had “just delivered” the baby and asked us to take him! We did! We called him “Georges,” after the Hurricane! A year later his sister “Stephanie” came along! We took her in also… their mother died soon after.
Georges is so obedient, kind, and sweet! He now has a sweet wife and a baby! He is also honest, obedient, and trustworthy! God has had His hand on Him since he was born! Everyone loves “Georges!”
Sherry
These pictures just came in from a prison where we have cooked meals before in South Haiti. I won’t mention the name of the prison because so many more are just like this one.
Pregnant women are also there, even giving birth while they are starving to death. Most prisoners have done only small things, like trying to steal rice to eat.
Some may owe $20 to someone and be put in prison. God bless Hubert and our Love A Child team, who work in all these areas in South Haiti. Soon, we will be building a big food distribution center in South Haiti.
God bless Pastor Gregory Dickow and Life Changers International Church who will be sponsoring this project in the same area where the prison is! We have been trying to travel there, but the gangs make it impossible. Thankfully, there are no gangs in this area of Haiti, but the gangs control the entrance many miles before you get there.
We must do something for these prisoners…
Matthew 25:40
Bobby Burnette
David said, in Psalms 144:15, “Happy is that people whose God is the Lord.”
Yes! If you look around at the people every day, you can tell who are Christians… they have a smile on their face, a kind spirit, and that “something,” that tells you, this is some of your family, the family of Christ! They are not complainers. They will greet you with a warm smile. You don’t have to ask if they are a Christian… you can know in your heart! We are a “happy people!” We gladly serve the Lord! We don’t complain in public, because the plane is late. He has everything under control. If we don’t get what we are asking for from the Lord, we just “wait on the Lord,” because His time is not our time! We are a “happy people,” because we are God’s children and we want to welcome others into our big family! “Happy is that people, whose God is the Lord!” Have a “happy day!”
Sherry
