The children in Haute St Marc Orphanage are given food

I wanted to share with all of you the really good news that the children in the Haute St. Marc orphanage have been given food!   When I visited in February, you could see that the cupboards were nearly empty, and I was told that the people who had given previously had stopped giving, and Pastor Anous was giving out of his own means to supply the food for the orphanage, which he could not continue. 

This was really on my heart, and on the airplane on the way back, I met a very nice lady named Natasha who told me that she thought she could help.    She connected me with a worldwide relief organization called "Mensajeros de la Paz" (Messengers of Peace in English) http://www.mensajerosdelapaz.com/.  They have quite a large number of people working in Haiti, and Natasha herself works to help supply funds for the Haiti relief efforts.

It wasn't long before we were given our first shipment of food.   Here is a picture of part of the shipment at the Mensajeros de la Paz location in Port Au Prince:

The food is loaded on the truck 

That bag looks heavier than him...

The first month we helped rent the truck to take the food to the orphanage way up in the hills of Haute St Marc.    Also, for the next month we took part in a "Pulguera Primavera" (spring tag sale) at Escuela Micael (our childrens school) and in a short period of time, we were able to sell some items and received many donations which made enough money to cover the truck rental for another month. 

The food has arrived!!!

The children were so happy when the first shipment of food came last month.  They were celebrating and saying "Where did that food come from???"  "Who gave it to us?",   "Thank you, Thank you, Thank you......"



Healthy rice & beans along with other tasty food!



Lots of food is cooked on a regular basis!



Thank you God for the food!!!



................................This picture really touched my heart, to see the reverence that the children have as they pray, and thank God for their food.  I am so happy to see that the children are eating regularly now.  These are such great kids and they really deserve to be given a chance at a better life.  

It really doesn't take too much, and God is really the one taking care of them. 



The children get a well appreciated meal!



They have been able to cook lots of food to provide meals not only for the children who live in the orphanage, but also to the children who come there for school.  

We are very grateful to Mensajeros de la Paz who have generously offered to give a supply of food every month for at least one year.    In addition, Natasha is continuing to work to procure funding to help support reconstruction efforts at the orphanage.  Please pray for her efforts to be fruitful, as it would be an incredible blessing if we could see a new orphanage with working facilities built for the children, comfortable beds, electricity, running clean water, fruit trees, goats/chickens, etc.  

It reminds me of how God himself looks out to care for the needs of the orphans and widows:

Deuteronomy 10: 17-19

¹⁷ For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes. ¹⁸ He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing. ¹⁹ And you are to love those who are foreigners, for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt.

To God be the Glory!!!