When we were little, during the fall, we would bring an apple to our school teacher and at spring time, a bouquet of freshly cut lilacs from our garden. The fragrance would fill the classroom. Those days are over now. But many families go apple picking. In the month of October I (Louise) did a…
Jessika Pierre (center) was eleven years old when her mom sadly died due to an AIDS infection. She left behind five girls and one boy. Christella, the youngest one who appears in Jessika’s arms in the picture, died of AIDS at an orphanage when she was 5. The little girls all attended our first church…
« And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your young men shall see visions, Your old men shall dream dreams. » Acts 2, 17. During Pentecost, we held some special services. A…
We gave out 12,500 tickets in 34 schools, universities and to our church’s youth inviting them to The Singing Cross Concert. Around 4,000 people came to one of the four concert’s evenings. You can watch a video of the Singing Cross if you follow this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uazvR-xoNw&feature=youtu.be Every Sunday, God heals some children. One day,…
This past Sunday, at the end of our children’s service, we made an altar call for the sick. Dozens of children ran to the prayer room. We did not have enough room and unfortunately, we had to turn some away. Nine children received healing including a girl whose foot pain made her limp. She was…
Asou is twelve years old. He does not know his father and his mother lives ten hours from him and his eight siblings. They are all growing up without parents. The one room house that they used to live in was partly destroyed by the 2010 earthquake and then by a tropical storm. In 2010,…
In Haiti, the enchantment of Christmas is nearly inexistent. A few lights here and there decorate some public places such as the grocery stores, the banks, the hotels and some houses. Thankfully, Christmas is not about trees and lights, as every day, there are black outs here! Christmas is in our hearts; it is the…
The cement mixer is fed in these proportions: two buckets of cement, four sand and six gravel and one bucket of water. The buckets full of concrete are passed from one hand to the other in the scaffolding. On the fourth floor, the buckets are passed from one hand to the other. Then, they are…
These children are like trees planted in a garden, God’s garden. 529 from Kindergarten to grade 8 decorate this garden. Grade 9 to 13 sponsored students attend another school. Chris, an American global worker who runs an orphanage in Port-au-Prince, registered 16 girls from 11 to 16 years old in our program. They previously slept…
Greetings from Haiti under the rain! Timoun yo grangou! In Kreol, it means the children are hungry. Most children spend their days in school without eating anything, simply because there is no food at home. Fortunately, their school days end at 1h00 pm. Then, they go home hoping to find something to eat. Last year,…
