Do you know Kinam? He is a tall and handsome young man that has lived at the Love A Child Children’s Home since he was a little boy. His name is Elie Stanley, but he prefers to be called Kinam. Both his parents had died, and Kinam was taken to a poor, run-down orphanage that...
Yum! Farmer John’s Butcher Shop is inside Gwo Maché Mirak (a Love A Child sustainability project). Farmer John has the best meat in all of Haiti, and it is up to American Standards. Delicious! I can't wait to have his sausage in the morning for breakfast! Bobby Here is an update from Farmer John. “We had a great...
“Nothing Is Too Hard For God!” What a story in 1 Kings 18:19-35… The Prophet Elijah was certainly a “character,” and you wouldn’t want to make him mad! Ahab was King of Israel, and they were serving Baal, a false god. Elijah gathers the entire nation together for a battle of “whose god is the real...
It’s never quiet around here, that’s for sure! From daylight to dawn, the kids are always doing something! When the day starts, you start your day by hearing the children sing during their morning devotion before school. When the younger ones leave for school, the older ones are downstairs doing their school tutoring. (Which means...
Dear Friends, God has been blessing the Jesus Healing Center and the new Birthing Center we are building. Many times, we have to send patients, as well as some of our orphan children, to "downtown" Port-au-Prince for specialized tests. When we do this, our truck travels into bad, unsafe areas, and it usually takes half...
“He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.” Proverbs 22:9 – Let us share our bread and blessings with the poor this month of December. A bountiful eye shall be blessed! Bobby
This wonderful, young girl is Rebecca Burnette. Our Love A Child Director Nelio Barthelemy had heard about a little girl in a small village that was going to be sold into slavery. A man was "trying to buy her" and keep her as a Restavec (child slave) and other things, but God spared her! Nelio...
In many areas of Haiti, children are eating "mud cookies" to fill the hunger in their stomachs. Other children are putting "salt" in water and boiling it and "drinking it" in place of food. Feeding the hungry is our greatest burden in Haiti. This month, we are believing God for eight containers of food, which are in Customs right...
Off to church they go! We hope everyone is having a blessed Sunday morning! Our children headed out the door early this morning to make it to Sunday school! You will see most of the girls have “white powder” around their neck. That is baby powder. Haitians do this to show that they are “clean”...
What Do You Want to Hear? I have always heard so many people say, “Well, if God wants me to do that, He'll have to talk loud,” or “If God wants me to do that, He will have to give me a sign.” Sometimes, when we are praying and wanting an answer, we might miss God's voice....