It really means, "There are too many problems for me to handle alone."  

When Bobby and I first moved to Fond Parisien years ago, we had no other American missionaries to help us with our heavy load on a full time basis.  As Love A Child Village grew, so did the projects.  We became overwhelmed, but God began to send us "his best."  

Above: Robert and Durkje, Bob and Carole, and Carlos

We are so thankful for Bob and Carole Stufflebeam...

For Carlos, our Team Host and his daughter, Brianna...

For Durkje and Robert...

 And their son, Pieter...

We will be featuring each of these missionaries in our upcoming journals.

They are a gift from God.  Mark is over our agricultural projects in Miracle Village, as well as the landscaping inside Love A Child Village and much more.

Imagine having 100 acres of land to take care of, and imagine trying to teach the Haitian workers how to do this...

It is tough, but Mark has done a great job!  He actually has them "on a schedule," in Creole!

He meets with the crew every morning for prayer and to give them their work orders for the day...

He explains how to use the weed eaters and determine what are weeds and what is grass!!

And teaches them how not to "scalp" the grass with the mowers... 

Mark is now over our Tilapia Fish Farm Project. 

He is teaching James, one of the Haitian guys, to take care of the tilapia fish and to be responsible for them...

Here he is, installing a screen over the fish tank to keep the birds from diving down and taking fish.  It has been a big undertaking, but Mark has done an awesome job!

Then, there is the Chicken Farm Project...  Hundreds of chickens to watch over and feed, eggs to collect and chickens to butcher and freeze.  The chicks below arrived at the end of last week.  Our grandsons had a ball.

The Miracle Village Garden Project is huge.  Mark took on the job of dividing the entire garden area into individual plots for the Haitian families.

Johnny and Paul Mahon, irrigation specialists, came down and put their expertise to work...

They helped Mark with the irrigation trenches for the new sprinkling systems...

Mark works from "sun up to sun down."

He and Sandra, his wife, also help us with our many Food and Clothing Distribution Projects...

And much more...

Sandra is my special "gift from God." She does our accounting, and it is not a small job. 

It is HUGE, and a tremendous responsibility!

We have two accounts at our bank, one in Haitian gourdes and one in U.S. dollars Just imagine trying to get the Haitian workers to bring back a receipt for a goat head or some chicken feet... it ain't easy! Not to mention the Dominican Republic outreach.  Now, we are in pesos!  "Ayi-yi!! What?"

Then, there are all the construction projects... the big new 30,000 square foot Food Distribution Center, with concrete trucks coming in every day, the Haitian workers' payroll and the trucks of gravel pouring in through the gates.

Things are moving along on the new Food Distribution Center.  The entire foundation is almost done.  It is about the size of a football field.

Recently, Sandra got to get all dressed up, when she was asked to be a Maren (godmother) for one of the couples at our Big Wedding.  What an honor...

Thank you so much, Mark and Sandra!!!  You both are such a gift from God!!!

These missionaries are not paid.  They live "by faith."  They have to raise all their support.  We are very concerned; they have little support. Just imagine how difficult that is...

On top of this, they are living in one of our small "visitor's rooms."  They have to use the bunk beds for storage, and everything they have to their name is inside a storage container, with just barely enough room left to live in as their home.

Bobby and I feel so bad about this. We need to build Mark and Sandra a small house. 

This house will cost $49,000.  We do not have the first dime toward this, but we are just praying and believing that the Lord will lay it upon a Church or upon someone's heart to help...

If you want to help sponsor the missionary house for Mark and Sandra, or if you want to support them monthly, please call our Fort Myers Office at 1-239-210-6107 and speak to Shar.  You can also send her an email at shar@lachaiti.org.  You may want to help support Mark and Sandra on a monthly basis, or you may know a church that would like to adopt a great missionary couple.

God Bless you,

Sherry

Any way you can help Mark and Sandra will be helping Sherry and me.  This hard working missionary couple has done so much to help lift our heavy burden.

God bless you, and Sherry and I love you,

Bobby