We have 16 “40-foot containers” backed up in customs, most of which is our Feed My Starving Children meals. We have two more FMSC containers on the ocean heading this way now. Each container contains 272,000 lifesaving meals. We are very thankful to FMSC this week, they agreed to give us 10, 40-foot containers per month! This is a lifesaver for so many children here in Haiti! Sherry and I have never seen hunger and conditions so bad here in Haiti since we moved here in July 1991.
We are thankful for each container of food of 272,000 meals; it costs FMSC $65,000. All the containers of food they ship us, there is no charge. PTL!
In return we, Love A Child, pay for the shipping down to Miami, putting it on a cargo ship across the ocean to Haiti. Then we have to pay all the many expenses at customs; then have our semi bring the container to our “Kingdom Connection Food Distribution Center.” Then, we must distribute the meals in many different areas of Haiti, many over rough roads and rugged mountains to get the food to the children. All of this cost us around $10,000 per container to ship in. This is how we do it! We do it together! By faith, we never have the money, but the Lord provides. I got up early this morning, I caught myself beginning to worry about all the expenses and hard times in Haiti. The Spirit said, “don’t worry… the Lord will provide.”
We would love to buy our rice here in Haiti… but, Haiti does not produce near enough and it is expensive. It’s even difficult to find. The Feed My Starving Children meals have rice, carrots, peas, onions, vegetables, soy, as much protein as a chicken breast, plus added minerals and vitamins.
Thank you, everyone, who helps make all of this possible. By faith!
Missionary Bobby Burnette