dorothys update 05/31/10

May 31, 2010

Wilmerson's PCR test is negative -- that means he does not have the HIV virus! He was 4 months old when his aunt brought him to us after his mother was killed in the earthquake. His screening test for HIV (which only tests for antibodies) was positive but the PCR proves that the antibodies in his blood came from his mother, not his own immune system. PRAISE GOD for this fantastic news! (Wish I had an updated photo of him. He looks much better now!)

Mother's Day in Haiti was this past Sunday. Kez made a party for the nannies and kids with Watermelon!! Thanks for the pictures, Kez! It looks like everyone had a great time. Those wonderful ladies need to know how treasured they are for the great work they do with the kids! Thanks, Lord, for our beautiful Haitian staff and for Kez giving her time to honor them.

Jessica will begin tomorrow to watch over our house for the month of June. Thanks, Jessica! Please send lots of pictures and stories.

A new car. Truck, rather. That has sounded almost impossible to me for a very long time but faithful partners have been working hard to raise the money. Frank King is in Haiti now, doing the shopping. If all goes as planned, we will have a BRAND NEW Tata Xenon dual cab, 4WD, diesel pickup truck by the end of June. I'm still hesitant to celebrate - after all, anything can happen in Haiti - but it really looks like this will happen. THANK YOU, LORD! and Frank! and our many many friends who have been working so hard!

(We're making progress on the generator, too. I hope we can report success in the next update. Generators and vehicles are both scarce in Haiti now.)

Children in the USA reacted with amazing compassion to the earthquake in Haiti. Wanting to help, the Child's Play Preschool at Lakewood Presbyterian Church, where my neice Nicol Mickler teaches, collected socks for our children. 1200 pairs!!!! Young American children are learning that they can make a difference. The LORD is SO proud of them! So am I.

FUN! I have seen THREE of my Haitian kids while in the US! Isna and her family visited me in Maryland. Poutchino and Christelle went to the zoo with Nancy and me. They are beautiful! radiant! glowing! My heart sings praises to the Lord when I see what HE has done for these children!

Mother's Day was a day of mourning for hundreds, maybe thousands, in Haiti. We all need to remember that the needs there are bigger than ever. Our mission will be growing and expanding to help as many as we can. Please pray that we will honor God and bring eternal change as well as improving circumstances, and that everyone around us will see God, not us. We would love to have you partner with us.

God bless you!

Dorothy Pearce

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

Faith-Hope-Love Infant Rescue

http://dorothypearcehaiti.blogspot.com

debt cancelled

Holy Holy....

The World Bank has cancelled Haiti's 36 million dollar debt.

for more read here.

thanks andrew

loved this blog written by andrew.... the rhythms of life... just wanted to share.

front porch

internet

so i have been waiting for about a month or longer...to get internet out here in the little cottage...and it has finally come...PRAISE THE LORD!!!

i am so thankful...now i can skype with junior and not just talk on the phone but see his face and feel a little bit closer...

gosh this whole distance thing is hard. but in less than 55 days we will be married...and i am abundantly blessed. he is the best thing that has ever happened to me.

every little step gets our home a little closer to feeling like a real home. and so many people have allowed it to be so...we are forever grateful.

i head to JAX airport at 3:45am to get on a 6am flight and will get to kcmo around noon. i didnt get everything done i wanted to today...but its all good.

because as junior put it... "i got done what God wanted done..." or at least i like to believe in this... He sees all my potential and knows who i REALLY am no matter what i accomplish...what a great Father i have! He loves me so!!!!!

ok...back to packing...

maybe... i think i am distracted by the fact that i have internet...pandora...my blog... the world at my finger tips and soon a live video of my future husband to talk to

...oh Lord i am thankful for the knowledge you give to bring technology...

but off to pack...yet still i will enjoy pandora!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

what a lovely life He has blessed me with.... overflowing.....

compassion

"the word compassion is derived from the Latin words pati and cum, which together mean "to suffer with." Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human (emphasis mine)."

Henri Nouwen

big events

I leave this thursday for kansas city... and i am SO excited for all the events happening while i am there!!!

1. i will get to see my family & friends...always a blessing!

2. i will get to go to my dear friends sarah beth & jon's wedding!

3. i will get to meet stella bea... bea & shawn's precious addition to their family!

4. i will get to have a bridal shower with people i love...planned by some lovely women that have been in my life for years!

5. i will get to go to the dentist...thanks to my parents...i haven't been in a LONG time!

other than those things...i will be laying out to get color for a wedding and working on my computer A LOT... mostly involving skype with Junior and working on things for much ministries/marketplace...

there you have it...i will be in kc thursday may 27th and will head back south june 6th... if you desire to see me...just give me a call...or shoot me an email. i wont have a car...

MUCH LOVE....

STELLA!!!

My best girl friend....gave birth to her first baby...Estella Beatriz Stawarz!!! I am so excited to meet her!!! CONGRATULATIONS BEA & SHAWN!!!!

She is Beauty- full!!!

junior & i !!!

HOLY HOLY HOLY is the Lord God Almighty!!!

He gets all the credit for this one...

Junior and I have 8 more weeks until we are married!

We cannot wait!!

Much to be done... but goodness gracious practically everyday God provides and affirms our union and i cannot be more thankful.

the littlest things are SO not little when God is doing them and you know that you dont really deserve them... but He never thinks like that because He loves us SO abundantly!!!

where do i start... i cant begin to list all the ways people are blessing us with their time, skills, resources, counsel, prayer, words of life.... i believe that GOD is everywhere in this and i will claim that all of our live... because our words speak life or death... we DESIRE to speak life...

PRAISE THE LORD!!!!!

GLORY BE TO GOD!!!!!

worth the read

AGAIN....my sister finds the greatest things!!!!

mama's & papa's and all those that are potentials to be one day... which is about everyone!!

READ THIS!!!

breathe

i just cried reading this post my sister put up... (http://ataylor3.blogspot.com/2010/05/cnns-rescued.html) watching these short videos done by CNN...seeing my friends the Manassero's and knowing I was there during all this... overwhelmed with emotions i can't believe its been over 4 months since the earthquake.

i can't believe that i still haven't been back to see all their beautiful faces... i can't believe that life is still going on... and yet so many are still in SO much need. i just was really overwhelmed by how rushed my life has been lately...how filled it has been with planning and yet...friends of mine...babies...and people i have invested years in are still full of fear living on edge praying for no more aftershocks and helping those in need.

i wish i was there. i wish i could hug sr. jesula and tell her i am SO proud of her for stepping up and taking on more leadership at Dorothys... and that i LOVE her. i wish i could tell sr. claudia that i am so glad she is okay. i wish i could see dyana and Claudia's new baby. i wish i could tell kevs i love him...i wish i could give emily a hug and see that she is okay. i wish i could take a trip to bercy and see all of them...let them know how glad i am that they are okay face to face...i want to tell chris how proud i am of the way she handle things... i want to do life there... if anything just for a little bit again. i guess i haven't really stopped to realize how much i miss it and really just how much i miss them... my haitian family.

i haven't even written on my blog in God knows how long... and for those of you who read my blog...or well did read my blog i'm sorry.

i was telling my best girlfriend beatriz yesterday that i haven't written in a journal pretty much since the earthquake...i mean i have written notes from church...every once in awhile something else...but not at all like i used to. i told her my journal got messed up in the earthquake...she asked 'does it have something to do with that, maybe you are associating it with that'...i said i dont know.

i know that since the earthquake i know God in a way i never knew Him before... and for some reason i just don't need a journal that much to connect with Him like i used to... that His presence is SO much more real to me than ever before... that I constantly feel in connection with Him.... how could i not... He's given me His heart...He's saved me...He's made me whole... He's walk all the roads ahead of me, with me and behind me... He is my refuge...my strength...my everything...and a journal...well perhaps its a beautiful thing... but its much deeper than any pen or pad of paper could bring. and i am very thankful.

I love Him with all my heart...and despite the tears of pain i cry for the suffering going on in Haiti i know He has won the victory...and His kingdom is HERE NOW.... its not just coming... its NOW. i know every tear i shed HE sheds much more... the pain I saw and experienced was just a glimpse of what He sees everyday...but the great part is He see all the GOLD as well.

i am striving to always see the Gold!

i know i am not suppose to go to Haiti again...not until Junior & I can go together and I am at peace with this...but watching those videos on my sister's blog was the first time i have really stopped and felt all of that in awhile... i feel like i have just been surviving... that this season of transition and preparation for what's next is good...but i have just been trying to survive it...because i want the 'what's next' but i need to really be present and not just survive...i need to feel and focus...to be productive and alive... to learn and grow and be about the now...even though i am extremely ready for what's next.

update from dorothy! 5/20/10

I am still in the United States. My grandson, Cree, was born in April with a heart defect and a genetic syndrome. His heart can be repaired but we won't know until he's older how the syndrome will affect him. For now he is stable. This has been a tough time for my family and I am very glad that I was here when he was born. When Cree has heart surgery I will take care of my 2 year old grandson, Cole, a very active little rascal. Thank you all for your prayers!

The Haitian government has asked large NGOs to scale back on free food donations. More children than ever before will starve. Our ministry must grow to try to save these lives. Our focus will be on taking into our home malnourished infants and children - and their mothers when appropriate - until their families are back in their own homes and working. Please pray that everything we do will demonstrate God's love and draw people to HIM!

Jesula and Claudia, two of our wonderful Haitian nannies, have worked at FHLIR for 4 years now. They are very good but have resisted taking leadership roles. Now that I'm not there they don't have a choice. They have plenty of resources: a pediatrician available 24/7, a nurse 6 days a week, Kez drops in from time to time, mission groups have visited, they have a driver and car, and so on. These wonderful Christian ladies can discover and develop their leadership abilities. What a boon they will be to Haiti! Thank God for the chance to help HIS Haitian people learn to lead!

Isna and her new family met me in Rockville, Maryland, a few weeks ago at the White Flint mall. Isna has bonded to her family. Though I got hugs and kisses and lots of attention, Isna went to her mother or father when she wanted comfort and affection and played with her sister and brother. It was pure JOY to see Isna settled in their wonderful family!

I am proud of my Haitian family for handling everything on their own. Thanks to Beaver Brooks, Kez Furth, Wayne Dollarhide, and Jim & Kim Dewar for visiting our house and helping. Thanks to Andy Leslie who will take a group in the next couple of weeks and to Frank King who will work on getting the generator bought and installed. Many thanks to Jessica Footz who will stay with the children for the month of June. And to Abby McCullough who will spend the first two weeks of June helping Jessica. These are beautiful instances of the body of Christ working together. When one can't be there, others will.

Praise God for all his blessings! It is good to be his child and share his love with others. Thank you for working with me in this ministry.

Love to all,

Dorothy Pearce

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

Faith-Hope-Love Infant Rescue

http://dorothypearcehaiti.blogspot.com

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