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| Day to Day with Donna! |
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| ALL DONATIONS TO FEED A CHILD ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE, AND MAY BE MAILED TO: P. O. BOX 2428 RED OAK TEXAS 75154 THANK YOU SO MUCH! ELDON & DONNA |
| January 2012 |
| This is a brand new year that the Lord has given us, and a new opportunity for all of us to give in order to bless many people who are hurting beyond what we ever could fathom! Eldon and I are eternally thankful for each one of our Partners…..each one of YOU who pray and who give to the Haitian people! We don’t plan on stopping or slowing down at any time during 2012! UPDATE: YOU helped to sponsor something that you don’t even know about yet—A CHRISTMAS PARTY FOR ABOUT 600 HAITIAN KIDS! These were KIDS WHO HAVE BEEN LIVING IN TENT CITIES FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS, EVER SINCE THE EARTHQUAKE, WITH NO SANITATION, VERY LITTLE FILTHY WATER, AND EVEN LESS FOOD. MANY OF THEIR PARENTS, BROTHERS AND SISTERS WERE KILLED DURING THAT HORRIBLE DAY ON JANUARY 12, 2010 WHEN THE EARTH HEAVED AND THRASHED SO VIOLENTLY! Many thanks to you there in the States, Pastor Wilson had over 600 of these kids transported to his church to have a little party, and give them WHAT? GIVE THEM THE THING THAT MEANT THE MOST TO THEM, ALONG WITH THE GOSPEL—A GOOD, HOT, NOURISHING MEAL TO FILL THEIR TUMMIES! |
| Then, out in the desert at Ti Fond Parisien was another little party with the children of that village. Many thanks to Pastor Rod Baker and his team from Victory Christian Center in Tulsa for the toys and goodies that they provided for these little Sweethearts! Last Saturday we delivered about 700 pounds of food to our long-time friend and Haitian Pastor, Johnny Esther, who was so excited that he couldn’t stop talking, not even realizing that he was almost yelling!! And again, we thank Pastor Rod & team for donating all this food to many hungry people! And, by the way, this load of food seemed like no load at all for the new Toyota Land Cruiser that you partners played such a major part in helping us purchase last year! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!! THANK YOU, LORD, AND THANK YOU, PARTNERS FOR ALL THAT YOU ARE DOING TO SAVE SOULS AND LIVES! Eldon and Donna Bryce |
| February 2012 Wings of Refuge Children's Home |
| MESI ANPIL (THANK YOU SO MUCH)… FOR ALL THE HELP YOU SO FREELY GIVE TO HAITI AND IT’S PRECIOUS CHILDREN! In this letter, Eldon and I are going to take you on a little trip through the new Wings of Refuge Children’s Home. We now have 21 children…..11 boys and 10 girls in the Home. |
| These kiddos have a lovely, secure, clean house to live in, part of which is being used as school rooms for the smaller children. The older children are taken to a nearby school, and then are brought back home each day by a member of the staff. |
| As you walk through the house, you see the dorm style rooms, one for the boys and one for the girls, with bunk beds and shiny clean floors. In the kitchen the food is put into dishes, the kids all wash their hands with soap, and then the food is taken to the picnic-style tables, where each child sits very quietly and patiently until everyone has been served. The children then sing a song, after which a prayer of thanksgiving is offered to the Lord for all His blessings, including the food! |
| In the laundry area you’ll find a couple of ladies ironing all the kids clothes with an iron (but not an electric one) that you open up and put burning charcoal inside to heat the iron. There’s a fine line of balance between having the iron too cool to get the wrinkles out, and having it so hot that it scorches the clothes! I’ve never been able to master this art! |
| This time we took little wooden cars for the boys, dresses for the girls, and granola bars for everyone. Thanks to Love A Child and Sherry Burnette for these gifts! Our visiting friends and helpers from the States, Pastor David Markham and Malissa Evans thoroughly enjoyed all this activity playing with the kids! All donations that you send marked “Wings of Refuge Children’s Home” will be used to continue to care for these precious little ones! |
| March 2012 La Saline - A Voo Doo Hullabaloo! |
Thanks once again for all your help!! In addition to
keeping the schools and the feeding programs going,
plus the children’s home, villages we take care of, and
the soul winning school, we had a large medical clinic in
the village of La Saline recently, treating about 500
people. To do an entire village clinic like this costs
about $1,000.
The church and school at La Saline is next door to the
biggest voodoo temple that I’ve ever seen in my life…..
with life-size satanic murals painted on the outside
walls. (pic of voodoo temple here).
People were already gathering outside the church when
we arrived very early in the morning. We began….as
always…with prayer and giving the 300 school children
vitamins and worm medicine. (pic of kids coming to be
treated).
Then after finishing with all the children, we began to
see families, one family allowed in at a time. (pic of
family seated on bench) Sometimes there are 6 or 8
people in each family, and after checking each
individual, the head of the family is given a “FAMILY
PACK” of 10, or more, different kinds of medicine.
They then are moved over to the pharmacist area,
where each medicine is explained to them in detail.
During all of this, the “optometry clinic” is busy, with a
crowd gathered around watching as our “optometrist,”
David Markham, is testing eyes by having each patient
thread a needle!! (pic of David & glasses). A few feet
away is my “nurse,” Malissa Evans, busy taking vital
signs. (pic of Malissa).
To say that the two long days of clinic went smoothly
would be an outlandish exaggeration, because as the
days wore on, our nerves and strength wore out…..and,
as usual, toward the end of the second day the people
began pushing and shoving through the doorway,
demanding to be seen! (pic of crowd)
Usually, I can handle about all of this hullabaloo and
noise, but this particular clinic was especially stressful!
A couple of days beforehand, while preparing for the
clinic, I tripped over a garden hose and fell flat on my
face, hitting the concrete like a ton of bricks, knocking
myself out for a few minutes. When I came to, every
bone and muscle in my body was screaming!!! As a
result, I got a concussion, broke my nose, tore two
ligaments in the rotator cuff of my right shoulder,
chipped a bone in the same shoulder, got two black
eyes, sprained my right wrist, and hit hard on my “new
left knee,” that was replaced by surgery last summer.
Oh yes, and my front teeth went half-way through my
upper lip! (pic of me with black eyes)
So that’s my story of the La Saline clinic and Donna’s
tumble!!! Thanks so much for all your prayers for my
complete recovery!
Love from La Saline,
keeping the schools and the feeding programs going,
plus the children’s home, villages we take care of, and
the soul winning school, we had a large medical clinic in
the village of La Saline recently, treating about 500
people. To do an entire village clinic like this costs
about $1,000.
The church and school at La Saline is next door to the
biggest voodoo temple that I’ve ever seen in my life…..
with life-size satanic murals painted on the outside
walls. (pic of voodoo temple here).
People were already gathering outside the church when
we arrived very early in the morning. We began….as
always…with prayer and giving the 300 school children
vitamins and worm medicine. (pic of kids coming to be
treated).
Then after finishing with all the children, we began to
see families, one family allowed in at a time. (pic of
family seated on bench) Sometimes there are 6 or 8
people in each family, and after checking each
individual, the head of the family is given a “FAMILY
PACK” of 10, or more, different kinds of medicine.
They then are moved over to the pharmacist area,
where each medicine is explained to them in detail.
During all of this, the “optometry clinic” is busy, with a
crowd gathered around watching as our “optometrist,”
David Markham, is testing eyes by having each patient
thread a needle!! (pic of David & glasses). A few feet
away is my “nurse,” Malissa Evans, busy taking vital
signs. (pic of Malissa).
To say that the two long days of clinic went smoothly
would be an outlandish exaggeration, because as the
days wore on, our nerves and strength wore out…..and,
as usual, toward the end of the second day the people
began pushing and shoving through the doorway,
demanding to be seen! (pic of crowd)
Usually, I can handle about all of this hullabaloo and
noise, but this particular clinic was especially stressful!
A couple of days beforehand, while preparing for the
clinic, I tripped over a garden hose and fell flat on my
face, hitting the concrete like a ton of bricks, knocking
myself out for a few minutes. When I came to, every
bone and muscle in my body was screaming!!! As a
result, I got a concussion, broke my nose, tore two
ligaments in the rotator cuff of my right shoulder,
chipped a bone in the same shoulder, got two black
eyes, sprained my right wrist, and hit hard on my “new
left knee,” that was replaced by surgery last summer.
Oh yes, and my front teeth went half-way through my
upper lip! (pic of me with black eyes)
So that’s my story of the La Saline clinic and Donna’s
tumble!!! Thanks so much for all your prayers for my
complete recovery!
Love from La Saline,
