A Broken People

What you are now reading has been ready to post for a few weeks but we’ve just felt as though we were missing something important out of the text and so we’ve refrained from putting it up. You see, when you write people to support you in your ministry, we feel that every single word is important when it comes to getting the message across. It’s very similar to writing a sermon. Every thought counts. It was while watching a recent episode of the Oprah Winfrey show that it came to me. I knew what must be said.

Bono, the singer from the rock band U-2, was explaining his new program to help children in Africa with HIV. As he explained how many large corporations were helping him with a portion of profits from sales, the audience went wild. Now please understand. I think that it’s a great thing for the people of Africa when celebrities do things like this. It’s just that so many celebrities want to jump on the bandwagon and say “Look what I’ve done.” The good thing is, the sick children have been helped. What I have a problem with is when missionaries come to the church and fellow Christians to ask for help not only for sick and dying children but to also present to them the gospel of Jesus Christ, that bandwagon remains mostly empty.

What Roberta and I are doing is not really a new thing for us. This is what God has called us to do since 1974. We’re merely changing locations. I remember the night we were ordained and a song was sung by Ralph Moore entitled “I Want To Spend My Life Healing Broken People” I did not know that the last part of our lives God would be moving us to a nation filled and overflowing with broken people. We received an e-mail just last night from Bobby and Sherry telling us to please hurry with our move to Haiti as the load on them grows with each day.

Roberta and I are doing everything within our realm of capabilities but we cannot make this move without your help. We are selling our home and on our last day here in the United States, we have a friend who will be selling our truck for us. As you read this, everything that we are shipping to Haiti is in a container, and on a ship to Haiti. Don’t misunderstand though; we have never been more excited about anything in our lives.

We’re often asked the question “If Love A Child is such a large mission group, why do have to raise your own support? Why doesn’t Love A Child pick up the tab?”

91 cents from every dollar given to Love A Child goes to the people of Haiti. Their entire operations budget comes from that mere 9 cents that is left over. That 9 cents also includes the expense of their television ministry. Love A Child Ministries is completely about helping the Haitian people. They are a member of the ECFA (Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability). Love A Child has been awarded the Independent Charities Seal of Excellence. All monies given for our support is given directly to Love A Child, Inc. and is tax deductible.


Please pray about what God would have you to do, then listen to what the Holy Spirit says. All I’m trying to do is to open my mouth and speak. When I speak, I speak for the children of Haiti and not for Randy and Roberta. Please know that there are boys and girls dying every single day. Together, our combined efforts can save these children. If you could only feel what I’ve felt when mothers grab at my shirt and tug at me to show me their sick and dying babies, or maybe the day I had to stretch out and grab the babies that were being passed over the heads of the massive crowd to me to give them to the medical staff at a clinic. If I could let you hold a child that is dying from starvation eaten up with worms or one of the many with birth defects maybe you could hear the cry of the poor maybe then you would say “Please Randy, let me help you and Roberta. Please let me partner with the two of you to reach the children of Haiti”.

We will make the move the first week in January 2007. We need your help today. Do what you can please. We are doing all that we can do but we need your support.


In closing, if you will remember back a few posts, we told you about Jenny and her heart condition. It looks as the arrangements will come through for Jenny to receive the heart surgery she desperately needs to live. Please continue to keep this situation and Jenny in your prayers.