See The Fruit...
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We asked several
children a series of questions.
Praise and Thank the Lord as you
read their answers and see what
the Lord is doing in their
lives! We hope you will be as
touched by their heartfelt
unedited responses as we were. |
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Question 1: What do you
want to be when you grow up?
EVENS - “I want to
be a medical doctor. I want to help the
sick, hoping God will help me to restore
health. I want to clean up the streets
and see human rights respected. There
too many killing. I want to invest my
life in street kids lives.” EPHESIEN - “I wants to be an engineer in
computer science.” JUNIOR - “I want
to be President of Haiti so that I can
restore the country and build the roads,
feed the needy, stop the suffering of
the nation and make Haiti a beautiful
country. And an engineer in computer
science.” ESPERANCE - “I want to be
a medical doctor to build a hospital to
care of the sick so that they will not
die. I will help other children the same
way HFC helps me.” DUEKHEIN - “I
want to be an agronome to help food
production to help appease the suffering
of hungry people, and stop starvation in
Haiti.” STEPHANIE - “I want to be a
medical doctor, to help the sick. I want
to be a singer.” JEANINE - “I want
to be a medical doctor to help sick
people.” ARGENTINE - “I want to be
a medical doctor, I want to work helping
people who have sick.” KATTIA - “I
like to be a star and excellent singer.
I like to be a dancer. I also like the
computer science.” YOUDEMIE - “I
like to be a medical doctor to take care
of the sick.” FABIOLA - “I like to
be a fashion designer.”
Question 2: What is your
biggest challenge or struggle in life?
EVENS - “Making
better grades in school so that I can
reach my future goals.” EPHESIEN -
“I want to be on top of my class because
I would to experience that feeling.”
JUNIOR - “My biggest challenge is
that I cannot wait to help change Haiti.
If I could start today I would.” ESPERANCE - “I want to skip grades
in school because I am getting too old
for my class. I want to influence girls
positively so that they can live as
sisters to the boys.” DUEKHEIN - “I
would like one day to go to another
country to seek help for the needy and
suffering Haitians. I want to be
president of Haiti to stop all the
troubles, and peace, and justice in
court system, to select competent and
honest judges, to set free all innocent
prisoners.” STEPHANIE - “I would
like to help the needy people, but right
now I cannot. There are so much
poverty.” JEANINE - “My challenge
is to build an orphanage to help the
orphaned children.” ARGENTINE - “I
am interested in the children who are
not in school, but I am not ready for
that. It is a challenge for me.” KATTIA - “I would like to help many kids
just as HFC is helping me.” YOUDEMIE - “I would like to go to the United
States to study medicine, and then come
back to Haiti to help the sick.” FABIOLA - “My challenge is to help the
street kids. I want to do that because
the majority of children are not in
school.”
Question 3: What do you
like best about living at HFC?
EVENS - “The work
and commitment of the adults toward
helping us as children because they work
with their whole hearts. Frage treats us
and do for us what she would do for her
own children.” EPHESIEN - “I like
the school best because it is preparing
for the future. I enjoy living with the
others as my brothers and sisters.”
JUNIOR - “I like the way the older
kids live together in a room and the
younger are together. I like very much
when they take us out into the city for
visit. The immediate care that is
provided for us when we are sick by Micaelle is very important to us.”
ESPERANCE - “Field trips! The staff
encourages us to study hard so that we
can succeed. I appreciate knowing that
my daily needs are guaranteed, and I
have a big chance to succeed in life. I
love my friend here.” DUEKHEIN - “I
like when the adults talk to us and we
listen. When they pray with us, singing,
the monthly business meeting where we
can express our feelings and tell what
is going on rather it is right or
wrong.” STEPHANIE - “I like the
staff because they represent my parents
and I like the boys and the girls
because they represent my brother and
sisters. I like also the teachers.”
JEANINE - “I like the school, and
the way the staff take care of the
children.” ARGENTINE - “I am very
grateful for the teachers who teach us
and the staff for taking good care of
us.” KATTIA - “I am very thankful
for my sponsors in the States.” YOUDEMIE - “I like everything. The way the
staff take care of us, the way they cook
the foods. And I like the way the
teachers teach us.” FABIOLA - “I
like the school because teach us thing
that we help us for the future.”
Question 4: Share
something about your personal
relationship with Jesus—for example, how
does he encourage you?
EVENS - “Jesus saves
me and encourages me thought the staff
who urge me to study hard.” EPHESIEN - “Jesus encourages me when I
failed in my grades and I prayed and he
helped me make better grades. Sometime I
ask the other kids to pray for me for a
personal request and Jesus always
answers my prayers.” JUNIOR -
“Jesus changes my life. I used to be a
trouble maker and he changes my life.
One time I was sick and could not
prepare for an exam. As I was taking the
exam, I bowed my heard to pray and ask
Jesus to help me. Amazingly, Jesus
helped me make a better grade than I
expected.” ESPERANCE - “I love
Jesus very much for lying on the cross
to humankind. I just took the
pre-official exam and thought I do not
have the result yet, I trust the Lord
for success because I did pray and ask
him to help me. I feel very good about
the upcoming result.” DUEKHEIN - “I
have accepted Jesus as my personal
Savior. Jesus is our master, who died on
the cross to save us for those who trust
may have eternal life. Jesus answers my
prayers. One example: At one point I
felt as I was totally forsaken by
relative. I asked the other kids to help
me pray about that issue. Suddenly, one
day my Godmother and my Grandma came to
visit me. This was a big answer to my
prayers.” STEPHANIE - “Sometime I
always pray Jesus and I always occupied
the third place.” JEANINE - “I
believe Jesus answers prayers, for
example when Dr. Marion Austin was sick,
was having a surgery, I prayed for her
and the Lord healed her.” ARGENTINE
- “Jesus encourages me to go to church.
By the grace of Christ my physical need
are being met, I am in much better shape
then before I came to the orphanage.” YOUDEMIE - “I was a poor kid before
I came to HFC. I am grateful to the Lord
for His blessings. This is a real
encouragement for me.” FABIOLA -
“One time I pray Jesus to send my
sponsor to come to Haiti to see me, her
name is Megan. Her visit to Haiti is an
answer to my prayers!”
Question 5: What is your
impression of Heaven? What do you think
or dream that Heaven will be like?
EVENS - “Something
like a place eyes have never seen. No
more sickness and everybody will be
happy.” EPHESIEN - “That is where
Jesus lives. It is like a house where
people live and save God. It is a
beautiful place.” JUNIOR - “No
place is as beautiful as heaven, it is
made of gold. I want to be there in the
last days as I trust the Lord Jesus.” ESPERANCE - “Lots of buildings and
streets in gold, angels are flying.
Sometime in my prayers it is like I have
seen Jesus as a giant in big chair and
see myself kneeling before him, as he
listens my prayers.” DUEKHEIN - “A
beautiful place created by God where
sickness, and death will be no more. It
is the place where saved will give glory
to God.” STEPHANIE - “I believe
heaven is a golden house where God and
the angels live.” JEANINE - “God
lives in heaven. I am going to heaven
when I died.” ARGENTINE - “I know
when I died I go to heaven to live with
Jesus. God lives there and the angels
are always singing. Heaven is a golden
place.” KATTIA - “God lives in
heaven.” YOUDEMIE - “God lives in
heaven with His children in a golden
houses and streets. That is the place
where all the saved will spend
eternity.” FABIOLA - “God lives in
heaven and heaven is the place where who
loves Jesus will spend eternity!”
Question 6: What is
something interesting that you want US
Sponsors to know about Haiti? Or what is
the best thing you like about Haiti?
EVENS - “My goal is
to make good grades in school, so that I
will help change poverty in Haiti. Why?
Because commands us to share with the
needy. Helping others is what best in
Haiti.” EPHESIEN - “I want sponsors
to know that Haiti is an undeveloped
country in which are armed conflicts
between groups. Haiti need money to be
developed. Champs de Mars and Bicentenaire are the best recreation
places I know of Haiti.” JUNIOR -
“Haiti is a good country, but people are
not united to make things work for the
best. There some nice roads in Haiti,
and champs de Mars is beautiful.” ESPERANCE - “I want them to know
Haiti has some good and honest people.
No everybody is evil. I like Champs de
Mars and place of Italy, they are my
favorite. Haiti is a good country, all
we need to do is to unite our efforts to
make it beautiful.” DUEKHEIN -
“There are people suffering and many of
them have died by bandits. We need
calmness and a good president to lead
the country into better days, a
president who would not misused the
money of the people to do his own
things. I like the public places.”
STEPHANIE - “The stoical
(historical) sites and the public
places.” JEANINE - “I like very
much Champs de Mars, the public places,
and the heroic (statue).” ARGENTINE
- “I like to see people getting a job so
that they can build their future. I like
the stoical (historical) places.” KATTIA - “The Haitian paintings.” YOUDEMIE - “I like very much the museum,
Champs de Mars and Italy’s place.” FABIOLA - “I like to go to the
mountain in Kenscoff to the small zoo at
the Baptist Mission. I also like Champs
de Mars.” |