It seems like yesterday when Rachael’s mother came to see me. She had a tiny baby wrapped in a blanket who was very sick and very small. I tried to help her all I could, but she kept coming back with this tiny baby. She had a tough life and didn’t know how she could raise another baby. I tried to encourage her to keep her baby but it is not easy when a poor Haitian woman has children and no decent husband to help. (Most fathers leave their wives and go to the Dominican Republic to look for work, but never come back!)

There came a day when she arrived with the baby and could not care for her anymore. Baby Rachael came to live with us and “our big family!” She is now “13 going on 23!” She is always working, cleaning, and helping! She will be going into 8th grade but we still look at her as if she is eight!! She will be a tiny, but powerful young lady and she will go far in her life! Yes, I can see her as a nurse, who loves her patients, loves Jesus, and loves everyone! Dynamite comes in small packages!

Sherry