 06-19-2013 - 4:45 PM - Jesse Ostrander made a trip to the Dominican Republic to meet with Carlos Silvestre, our LAC Dominican Republic Director, to organize the "Father and Son-Daughter" baseball team and food distribution to the poor....They will organize U.S. Children Teams with the D.R. Youth - (July 22nd--"Full!) Who will win? Just FYI...These Dominican kids are "tough and they know how to play baseball!!" Sherry
8 AM - Each day, our Haitian crew is working hard to build the first buildings on the new Marketplace in Fond Parisien, Haiti! This Marketplace will provide jobs for thousands of poor Haitians who need to have "hope and dignity..." In this way, we can move some of our feeding programs to "another village" which has nothing. God bless Pastor Jentezen Franklin and his partners for sponsoring this wonderful project! Sherry
06-19-2013 - 6:45 AM - "...And with his stripes we are healed." - Isaiah 53:5 - Please continue to pray for our dear friend, Johnny Mahon. He and his wife, Shelby, worked so hard putting in the irrigation/sprinkler system for the garden plots behind Miracle Village. The garden plots allow the Haitian people to grow vegetables to eat and sell. Johnny is now in Shane's Rehabilitation Hospital recovering from a brain aneurysm. His left side is still immobile with a slight improvement. Bobby
 06-18-2013 - 10:30 PM - Be sure to read Sherry's Journal tomorrow to find out how important food is to these precious children and what a difference it is making when we "put our hands together," to help. Sherry
 1:00 PM - Carole Stufflebeam, our Medical Director, left this morning with Miliana to travel to Ohio. She will receive medical care for a severe skin disease which cannot be treated in Haiti. God bless our partner who helped make this possible. We will keep you updated on Latest News and Facebook! God is awesome! Sherry
 10:15 AM - A Haitian Creole Proverb says, "Those who share their food, never eat alone..." We believe that as we "share our food with the poor," God will bless us, and we will "never eat alone." God will take care of us....This food was shared with our friend, Mike, who is working in the mountains near Love A Child Village. The food was donated by Feed My Starving Children, and our partners help with transporting it to Haiti. If you would like to "share your food," please click here. God bless you, Sherry
 9:30 AM - A Creole Proverb says, "Your face is your passport..." Look at these smiling faces of poor people in the mountains near Pays Pourri....We shared new clothes, tennis shoes and baseball caps with Mike, our friend, and he shared with these men working on the roads. These items were donated by World Vision! What a blessing! Sherry
6:45 AM - "Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin." - Mother Teresa
If you are a dentist with a heart for the poorest of the poor, Love A Child needs you (2-3 dentists) to participate in a future Mobile Dental Clinic. You will provide dental care to the poorest people who have NO access to care. Most will have acute problems and majority of procedures will be extractions. Your accommodations will be in Love A Child Village and team will work in three surrounding villages. You will improvise dental chairs and relieve much pain and suffering. Please contact Shar, our Team Coordinator, at 239-210-6107.
Urgent Needs...We are in desperate need of the following items in large amounts for our Orphanage: Disposable Diapers Sizes 1,2,3, Large Bottles of Shampoo, Toothpaste, Baby Powder (lots), Large bottles of Lotion, Large bars of Bath Soap, Ajax and Paper Towels. Please send to Love A Child, Inc., 12411 Commerce Lakes Drive, Fort Myers, FL 33913 They will send these to us in the next container to Haiti. Thanks and God bless, Sherry
|
|
Meet Wilson Barthelemy, better known to all of us as Nelio. He is the director of all of our Love A Child projects and outreaches. He has worked for us for twenty years. He is responsible for all we do in Haiti...our feeding programs, our schools, getting our containers out of Customs, hiring new people, all of our licenses, and the maze of hoops we jump through, just to survive. We do not know what we would do without Nelio. He is our gift from God.
|
|
|
We want to thank you for visiting our website because this means you are someone whose heart has compassion for those living in poverty in Haiti. We are the Founders and Directors of Love A Child. We moved to Haiti in July, 1991 as full time missionaries, and we can say that this has been the greatest joy of our lives.
If you are interested in feeding the hungry, sponsoring a child, building a missions project, or traveling into the “regions beyond” on foot, four-wheel drive, or even by mule or donkey, then this is the mission website for you! We also invite you to visit “Sherry’s Journal,” a daily, cultural diary of life on the mission field of Haiti!
God bless you,
Bobby and Sherry Burnette
|
|
   Follow Love A Child on the Internet!
  
Current Financial Audit
  
Love A Child, Inc. received the Four - Star Rating for financial accountability for the 9th consecutive year. This is the highest rating an organization can receive from Charity Navigator, America's largest evaluator of independent charities.
|
|
