Johny, Mish, Kenny, Gertie....

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i must apologize for i have not been very good lately about doing my blog. i could give you excuses about how we don't have electricity blah blah blah...but lets just get on to all the things that have been going on. as you know we have had many answered prayers lately...its funny how when it rains it pours and then the drought comes, but oh how the rains of blessings always make up for the dry times and remind us of the Lord's faithfulness is so steadfast, despite our worry and unbelief.



Johny is still in the hospital it is going on (gosh)3 weeks at least. we miss him, i miss him. its so hard to visit him at the hospital and leave him there when we go. hopefully by this Friday we will get to take him home.

oh goodness on Friday i was proposed to my my dear precious friend Mishlor. you may have heard of him before. He is 11 yrs old and about 3 feet tall with character and attitude that is 10ft tall! anyway he is rather fond of me. he even gave me a ring! funny how i can get a 3 foot 11yr old to fall in love with me, but no other offers--just kidding! it was really sweet though and a good laugh that is continually in our lives here!



In case you were wondering Mish has brittle bone disease so he is a tad small, but doing and growing in so many ways living with DeeDee. he is one DeeDee's (fellow missionary raising boys/also kevs school teacher)6 boys. Actually 7 now because our little Mackenzie has moved in with her to stay. A huge blessing. We miss him, but still see him often. we are calling him Kenny now because DeeDee has so many M names!


oh what else...today gertie had an accident downstairs and got cut real deep on her head. i saw it and again God confirmed i am not suppose to be a nurse. we pulled out our favorite and trusty book here, "where there is no doctor" and checked out head injuries and concussions. she seems alright. just trying to keep the swelling down and letting it heal. we could get stitches, but it would be a lot of unnecessary stress on her and us...so pray it heals well as I'm sure it is. we are not too worry for as the day went on she continued to be very much her normal self.

okay i think that is all for now.
hope all is well where

answered prayers

I have been back in PAP since Monday and so many things have happened. my sister has left and it was a great time with her we learned a lot and it was refreshing. Kev's got to stay with his adoptive mom for awhile and is doing well. she is back in the states now, but it was so wonderful to see her. Kev's birthday is Sunday, he will officially be in the double digits...10yrs old. what else...poutchino's shoes broke when i left to bercy and when i returned i had a package from my parents with 2 new pairs for him...perfect timing! thanks mom and dad. we still don't have electricity, but praise God because the lord has found a way and people are bringing parts to fix the gas generator in July (we have a team coming), a fellow missionary looked at our diesel generator and we need to parts to fix it and we already got one, and someone has said they want to buy us a new inverter! PRAISE GOD!!! we will have electricity soon! we really need it too because waking up in the middle of the night to run the pump (so we don't run out of water the next day) or use the Internet is really draining. oh yes...and i have prayed for the funds to go home and people to visit and help me while Dorothy is away...He answers prayer. i have a ticket to come home and visit from august 19-27Th and then my dear friend Sarah Beth will be flying back with me to stay until the 4Th of September. Also mama Kathy is thinking about coming in the end of September and another friend of mine Christina will hopefully be able to come in the beginning of august. so God is so good and i am excited for the nest few months. not only to be here longer, but to have visitors!

Praise God!
blessings,
Natasha :)

Dorothy's update June 18, 2008

So i have been in Bercy the last few days, but wanted to make sure i posted Dorothys update.

"Dr. Marly and Lori Desir visited us for a dental clinic Tuesday morning. They did in-service training for our staff on oral health. They examined all of the children with teeth. Three of our children had a little plaque which was removed. None had cavities! I was very proud of our staff! They are doing a good job of keeping the children's teeth clean and can do even better now with their new knowledge.

Dr. Desir also examined the staff members who wished an exam. One nanny had brought her 10 year old daughter, Diana, who was also examined. Two of Diana's baby teeth were not allowing their permanent replacements to come in. Dr. Desir extracted the baby teeth. He will give us estimates for the extensive work needed by staff members. We would like to help them if possible.

God has been good to us. Just to give you a small idea, I am highlighting two of our children and one child close to us below. If God had not intervened in their lives, all 3 of these children would be in very poor condition if they were even still alive now. But God did intervene. Many people in several countries are working together in His service to help these and other children. Praise God!

Emily Marie Francois ("Emarie")
Emarie came to us this past January from Bercy where she was found abandoned. She was very anemic and malnourished, had wispy orange hair, weighed 7 lbs 10 oz., and we guessed she was around 7 months old. She is now 17 lbs and has beautiful black curly hair. Dr. Desir thinks we were right about her age.

Mackenzie is getting a new family
Mackenzie came to us in November 2006. At 23 months old he weighed 12 lbs and was a floppy baby, unable to hold his arms or legs up. A victim of child abuse and severe neglect, Mackenzie thrived on our loving care. He recently learned to walk and developmentally is a little more than 1 year old. He now needs more one-on-one stimulation than we can provide and, praise God, he is going to get it! Our good friend Deedee was a special ed teacher before moving to Haiti many years ago. She now raises Haitian boys. She is the ideal person to be Mackenzie's mom. She fell in love when she met him. We are all spending a lot of time together so Mackenzie will be comfortable with the move.

Michelor
This is a story you will love to hear. Last July I met Michelor, then 10 years old, who has brittle bone disease. He had numerous badly healed fractures (later shown to be 21 breaks). His family had been told he would never walk again so they just let him sit in the dirt in his village. A friend found him a home with Deedee. Since then he has grown several inches and learned not only to walk but to run! Enjoy the photos (he is in the yellow shirt). He will be Mackenzie's new brother.

We have 16 other children with stories similar to Emarie and Mackenzie. From time to time I will share their stories and progress.

Please pray with us for the following needs:
Repair or replacement of generator and inverter
My surgery in August and the extra funds needed
Car repairs: power steering fluid leaks, hard time climbing hills
Natasha as she deals with children and staff issues while I am gone
Johnny, still in the hospital.
Healing for Poutchino
Monthly expenses, about $3500
Rent due in October, $8,400"

as you can see there are lots of things that need to be prayed for.
thanks again for being a part of our ministry. i pray the Lord blesses you and keeps you wherever you are reading this from.

A few things...

Hello dear friends!!!

We still dont have a working inverter or generator for electricity, however GOD IS SO GOOD...because EDH has been coming on early at night and the past two days we have had a couple hours of it during the day. so its been very nice and not too horrible having no way of controlling when we get electricity.

Healing Hands had a neurologist come to check out hydrocepholis children on saturday so we took poutchino and waited a long time, but were seen!! the neurologist seems to think that his shunt isnt infected and that it is some other problem...perhaps malaria. i can see that with the fevers in the afternoon almost everyday, but we really still arent sure. next time he has a high fever we are going to test him for malaria. We are still a bit nervous that there could be something wrong with the shunt, but at the same time very relieved to have talked with a knowlegdeable doctor who thinks that it is something else. pray that we can figure out what that something else is and that it heals fast before it does effect the shunt. other than that he seems to being doing great. we are trying to give him more snacks throughout the day to boost his calorie intake.

Finally the fun news...i am picking my sister up from the airport tomorrow. it will be so great to have a familiar face from home here with me. we will be in PAP so she can meet a few people, help out with a dental clinic we are hosting at the house tuesday and then Wednesday dorothy is going to take me and her out to bercy. we will be there until saturday and then she stays in port until wednesday the 25th! i am so excited for her to be here and meet all the kiddos and see live here. i am also so excited to get to go out to bercy for a few days and see the kids and people that i have so invested in over the years. I adore that village, what they are doing there and all the people there! it will be so refreshing to see them again and get a short break from city life. i love the country on this island...the simplicity, the beauty, and the list goes on! oh and haitian church oh how i LOVE it!! MESI JEZI!!!

OKAY its gonna be a bit busy for awhile so i dont know when the next post will be, but i am so thankful for you all, wherever you may be!

blessings,T

E & P Update

Okay so I think it’s about time I update you on ms. Emily Marie…she is getting so big! We weighed her the other day and she is now 17lbs. Can you believe it?! When I first met her she was so weak, so malnourished, she did not even weigh 6lbs. She is now crawling and trying to imitate your noises and expressions. She is so smart and really doing well. I try to make sure we have quality time every week! Rosmanie (one of the nannies) and I joke about who is her mom/who is going to keep her because we both love her so much. She probably could go back out to Bercy because she is doing really well…but I can’t bare to be here without her…so she can go back there when I’m gone. I’m hoping to see her walk or maybe start talking now since I am going to be here until October. I am working on ‘Tasha’ hoping that will be her first  word! I will say thought that she has been having a bit of diarrhea lately and she is on flagel to help stop it. You could pray she gets over that, especially considering that is one of the main causes of death among children in third world countries. I am NOT saying she is going to die…but it’s a good thing to know so you can pray also for the world in general with that issue of health because it is truly something that could be stopped. Its preposterous that such a thing goes on. Wow, I’m sorry that was a mini tangent, not a bad one to give though.

Okay on to Poutchino…we are actually really worried about him. I am really worried about him. I don’t know if I have expressed this to you on here at all yet, but we have been concerned that he may have an infection in his shunt. The shunt is what drains the fluid from is brain into his abdominal cavity. The shunt that he has now is his second one because his first got infected and it had to be removed. Dorothy has said a few times that some of his recent conditions are similar to what was happening before she found out about the infection in his last one. He has a fever almost everyday, he has more frequent seizures, etc. The big problem is that if he really does have an infection he needs a neurologist, but they are practically impossible to find here with out waiting days and days and even then who knows if you will ever actually get to see someone. If it is infected, he will need it removed and then a new one put in its place. However, he’ll have to heal from the removal and in the meantime that fluid will be building back into his brain. It’s actually such a horrible thing that could set his therapy progress back a whole bunch. Pray with all your might and in faith of the healing power of our Lord Jesus Christ that Poutch does not have an infection, that if he does, all the things to work it out would be available in the time he needs them and that he would not regress back in the progress he has made to be stronger. We are going to try and take him to get some blood work done after therapy tomorrow so we can hopefully figure out what is going on because these fevers have to stop.

Thanks again for being a part of my life, for reading this blog, for praying, for your own individual ways of participating in justice and hospitality around our world! I know total cheese but true…

How about a better way to put it…

“The place that God calls us is the place where the world’s deep hunger and our deep desire meet.” –Fredrick Buechner

Praise God

As you all know from reading my blog and Dorothy’s update we have no electricity except with EDH, which has actually been coming on pretty either at night. Tonight it came on at 8pm! In addition, on Sunday morning we had it until 9am and then it came back on at 7:15pm…it was such a blessing! As of right now, we have 2 generators and an inverter, but all three do not work. Therefore, we have to remember to run the pump for water at night with EDH or we run out of it during the day (water we use for bathing, cooking, cleaning, washing clothes). In fact the picture in this post is of Dannae and I trying to wash off the best we could with the little bit Dorothy had left in her bathroom. I so unfortunately had forgotten to fill our bucket in the morning when there was water, my bad…

Anyway all to say we are doing fine just getting used to not having it again and realizing we had gotten a bit spoiled with it there for awhile…it’s so nice to have it! However as I have said before, ‘it is fun living by candle light; there is something really peaceful about it that I love.’ I will say that summer is definitely here though and having heat from a candle doesn’t help with the fact that you are already really hot. But then again you all know I would rather be here then in a Kansas City ice/winter/tornado storm!

Keep praying that somehow the generator or the inverter will heal and bring us electricity. We are still low on funds, but as always, we get by. We cut back were we can and try to be smart. . God is so faithful to provide! PRAISE HIM!

Miss you all! Tasha Rae

hectic

so a lot of things are going on right now that we need prayer about and to top it all Dorothy is getting over a cold and i think i am starting to get one as is dannae. my parents are sending me multi-vitamins i hope that can maybe help build my immune system to fight all the sickness i keep getting. ok enough about me...by the grace of God we have EDH this morning, but i dont know when it will go off...so heres my copy and paste from Dorothy's latest updates to tell you whats going on...

"Our inverter is broken! Horror of horrors, that was what was keeping us in touch with the outside world. Now we can only get online during the wee hours of the morning when we really need to be sleeping. Please be patient. We will contact everyone as often as possible. Please pray for the inverter and the generators to be repaired.

Poutchino had another gran mal seizure yesterday, this time with no apparent outside causes. He was not sick, ate and drank normally, etc., then the seizure hit. We are very worried about him. Neurologists are almost impossible to see here. The only good one we know of is more interested in politics. Poutchino needs your prayers.

Please pray for us. Much is happening here: Poutchino's illnesses, failure of our household appliances, lack of electricity, low funds. We need your prayers and support."

miss you.
nrt

Dorothy's Update May 31 2008

Johny Joseph, 13 months old, was brought to us by Sherrie Fausey on May 18th, a precious boy who only weighs 12 lbs. and has a bad ear infection which did not respond to antibiotics. We went to Medlab that afternoon for blood tests. Sadly, he is HIV positive, anemic, and has bacterial infections. Johny was admitted to the hospital this past week. They discovered he also has lesions on his lungs. Please pray with us for his recovery.

Johny is from Gonaives, an area devastated by mudslides a couple of years ago and still not recovered. His parents are both too sick to care for him. Pastor Genada, a Filipino missionary to that area, has been unable to find any programs in that area that treat AIDS. He asked Sherrie and I to help the baby. We are very glad to do so.

My 2 week visit to the States in early May was very busy. I saw doctors and filed taxes. I will return to Jacksonville on August 4th to prepare for a total knee replacement on August 25th. I should return to Haiti in early October. Praise God for medical insurance and a Christian doctor and hospital who will help with the cost!

Natasha is going to to extend her stay so she will be with the children while I am gone. In spite of being sick with fever and cough, she did a great job with the kids the 2 weeks I was gone. It is a huge responsibility and she is very brave to accept it for 2 months. We hope that friends of hers can visit during that time and possibly others who can help with the children's health needs. Please pray for her!

Getting ready to leave in April was hectic. Nerlande (10-11 mos.) had been very sick (vomiting) for over a week. As she was finally recovering, Nephtalie (5-6 mos) had to be hospitalized for a respiratory infection. She was released just before I left, after several days on oxygen and IV antibiotics. The bill for her stay at a private hospital took a huge chunk of our operating funds but God somehow still provided all we needed. Praise God for the recovery of these children and for His miraculous provision for our needs.

We really miss Jessica (1 year) who returned this week to the orphanage that brought her to us. They are starting to process her adoption. We took her in last July because her mother has AIDS and we were afraid Jessica would get the virus from breastfeeding. Jessica was positive but we all hoped she didn't actually have the virus and would revert to negative eventually. That is what happened! Praise God for sparing her from that horrible virus. Pray for her to be placed in a loving Christian home.

It is impossible to care for an baby, nurse them thru illnesses, hold and rock and sing to them, watch their firsts - turn over, crawl, walk, talk - without falling completely in love. It is hard to let them go but it is our preference that children either be returned to their biological families or moved on to permanent families. Soon it will be time for Nerlande and Izaola to go home.

Several children cannot return to their families or be adopted. We will provide a permanent home for them. Pray that we will continue to have the funds necessary to educate and nurture these children until they become adults who will be Christian leaders in this country in desperate need of Jesus.

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Dorothy Pearce
Founder and Director
Faith-Hope-Love Infant Rescue

"And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." I Cor. 13:13

Mailing address:
Dorothy Pearce
Agape Flights PAP 15297
100 Airport Ave
Venice, FL 34285

Tax deductible donations:
Christian Light Foundation, Inc.
P.O. Box 23881
Jacksonville FL 32241-3881
Memo: For D. Pearce, Haiti

Telephone: 011-509-3529-1962

some articles

hello everyone! i just thought i would give you some links to check out. some recent articles on Haiti and where it stands right now. Also some on the food crisis that is effecting poor countries everywhere. still not good. keep praying. thanks again for being a part of this journey. Whether you have supported me financially, or prayer, or send packages, or just read my blog...i truly appreciate you all. blessings, T.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080530/wl_nm/haiti_kidnapping_dc_1

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7432583.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/country_profiles/1202772.stm

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/06/03/un.food.prices/index.html