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PROMISED PROVISION MINISTRIES
OUR GIRLS
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Read about how life at the Girls' Home was
before the earthquakes hit. We hope that with your
prayers
and support that we can help them rebuild their lives.
Promised Provision Ministries was honored to provide safety, education, a sense of family and adequate food and clothing to young women in a full-care residential facility in Leogane, Haiti.
We fell in love with these girls – they are so innocent and engaging and they have such faith in God’s love and provision for them! During one of their daily worship services, we taught them about self-esteem and understanding who they are in Christ – they are princesses, daughters of the King. They each proudly wrote their name inside of the paper crowns we provided and saved them to serve as daily reminders of their royal standings in the world. |
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We ask that you keep these precious girls in your prayers. Each girl was selected to live in this home because she was at-risk in terms of both health and safety.
The girls had very full days. They woke up around 4:30am and stumbled downstairs for morning worship. Then they cleaned the house, prepared and ate a simple breakfast of oatmeal or farina (flour, sugar and water mixed into a thin “cereal”) and left for school at 7:15am. When they arrived home from school, some did house chores while the others prepared dinner. |
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Sophonie Collects Water from the Roof to Wash Clothes
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| Even though there was a propane stove in the house, the girls prepared most of their meals outdoors on a crude charcoal stove because propane is so costly. The food and cooking pots were stored in the small storage building behind the house and most of the food was prepared on the small porch there. |
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| Dinner commonly consisted of a thin bean soup over boiled cornmeal, or a thin bean soup containing dumplings made from flour and water, or a real treat of beans and rice. Occasionally, there wass some goat or chicken meat to add to the bean soup, but since the animals are so emaciated, there wass very little meat even when they had meat. |
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After the dishes had been washed (carried downstairs, washed in basins outdoors and carried back upstairs to be stored away for the next day), the girls settled in for the evening. |
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| They really enjoyed the games we taught them (musical chairs, Simon Says, and the Head-Shoulders-Knees-and-Toes game – all played in English!!) and the games we took for them (Twister, Battleship, Bingo, Uno) by the light of their kerosene lamps. |
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| At 7:00pm, the girls gathered in the fellowship room for evening worship services where they took turns serving as worship leaders. (If you have ever wondered what the angels sound like when they sing, you’ll have to accompany us on a trip sometime to hear these girls sing…it is nothing short of divine). Afterwards, the word “encore” began to ripple among the girls. This was their evening meal -- either leftovers from the afternoon meal (if any) or, more commonly, another bowl of oatmeal or farina. Bedtime was 9:00pm and they had worked so hard all day that they gratefully fell to sleep to rest up for the next day. |
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 We ask that you continue to hold these precious girls in your prayers – they fight physical and spiritual battles every day that most of us will never truly understand. In a nation where voodoo is the national religion, abandonment, malnutrition, neglect, abuse and slavery are common fates for the one in 14 children who survive past their 5th birthdays.
Our girls are looking to us now more than ever for help in figuring out what to do with their lives in the aftermath of the earthquake that destroyed their city and killed many of their friends and family. We are actively seeking educational, vocational and occupational opportunities for each girl so as to stablize their lives and set them on the path to a successful future.
Your prayers and gifts literally make the difference between life and death for them. With our help, these girls can do more than merely survive the travails of life in Haiti but rather that they can thrive as productive, Godly women who will grow to make a difference in their families, their city and, indeed, in their country.
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"He who is kind to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will reward him for what he has done." – Proverbs 19:17 |
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