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Doll Handout
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"I have a special little something that Pastor Ed and Ella Smith are in charge of, and that's the little dolls and toys that go around the whole wide world. And sister Ella got the notice to me. She said, Jan, our little doll room is getting real empty. And you know that Christmas is coming up. She said I just need you to help me a little bit. We get calls from all over the world that children want dolls, and this is one project that I promised the Lord that I would never ask funds for. I do not and will not even take any money for this project, because this is a heart to heart project. And I want to tell you how it began. Several years ago our hearts were just broken, and we had met a wonderful couple that were from Haiti. Jacques and Gladys Fourcand. She was a nurse that was healed of brain cancer at the altars of one of the churches.
"At John Hinkle's church in Los Angeles, a registered nurse on 16 different medications a day working in one of the Los Angeles hospitals just to get through the pain, knowing she was dying of an inoperable brain tumor. And someone told her about John Hinkle's church in Los Angeles, and she and Jacques went one Sunday. She went to the altar and she said as she was there, she felt the wind of the Holy Spirit come through that building and she said, Jan, it was like going through my head, and she said, I had my coat there and I had to wrap my coat up and put it next to my head. I felt this wind like it was going through my head, and all of a sudden I realized when I stood up I didn't have a headache for the first time in a year. She was without a headache. And to make a long story short she went to work the next day. They took all the MRI's, brain scans. Her brain tumor was completely healed by Jesus Christ at the altar of John Hinkle's church on Sunday morning. She came down to give that testimony.
"By the way he's the same yesterday, today and forever. He never changes. Some of you have come in here with special needs tonight. That same precious Holy Spirit is here to touch you and make you whole. They had a special burden for their home country of Haiti.
"So to make a long story short, we began to go down with them to build orphanages and feed the children, and take medicine. And everything we take, Gladys, being a nurse, we took doctors with us several times. They would do what they could when they were there. And one time we were on our way down there to feed the children and we had taken a whole bunch of stuff. In my office I was packing to leave that day and I saw on my shelf in a cabinet that I had, dolls. People for some reason know I love dolls and they just send them to me, and I had probably about 50 dolls sitting on my shelves that people had sent. So I put them in a box and the Lord spoke to me to take them to Haiti and give them to the children. So we were down there and we had them in the back of the car and we had fed the children and we had loved them and taught them about Jesus and taught them songs and given them medication and done the little things we could do, and all of a sudden I remembered those dolls not thinking they were going to be that extraordinary, just little dolls. But I pulled the box out and all the children around there that had eaten and everything, and I pulled one little doll out and held it up. And I tell you, I have never seen a look on children's faces like I saw when they saw a real little doll with a little face and eyelashes and hair and little pretty frilly dresses. Their faces absolutely went heavenly. Just lit up. They thought I was just holding it up to show it. And when I reached down to hand it to one of the little girls and she held it. All of the little girls just came running, running, running, running and I could hear them screaming in Creole French, whatever they were screaming, yelling and screaming and hollering. I could see in the trees and in the little paths little children began to run from everywhere. Behind me everywhere were little children coming just to get one of those little dolls. And I gave out two and three and four and they started gathering around faster and faster and faster and faster. And I began giving out those little dolls. And I could see them fall in the dirt and hold them and just lift them up, and they were kissing them and touching them. It was unbelievable. I guess when all you've had in your life is little sticks stuck together with some kind of a little head drawn on it is a doll, that was so unbelievable to them. So I began giving them out behind me and around me and everywhere, and just when I was having the joy and they were hugging my legs and arms and thanking me in Creole and French and I had the last doll, and just as I started to hand out the last doll, I saw a little girl about four years old come running down the path, and she had run and stumbled and her little feet were bleeding and her arms were bleeding where she had fallen in the dirt and rocks and she came running and crying and came right up to me just as the last little doll went out of my hand to another little girl. And there she stood with those little brown eyes and she looked up at me and all of a sudden the biggest tears you've ever seen in your life began to running down her cheeks. And she just fell in a heap. Her little feet were bleeding. And I picked that little angel up in my arms and I wiped her face and I held her and she just laid over on my shoulder and just sobbed the deepest sobs you've ever heard in your life and she looked up at me and I heard myself saying to her, 'I promise you, I will bring ten thousand dolls down here, and you will get the first one.' And it was like the Holy Spirit literally translated what I was saying to her in Creole French, because I know she understood it. And after awhile, after hugs and promises, we had to leave. It was time to leave. I put her down [with] ...those little feet bleeding. I could see a little blood path as she walked away. But turning around to me and waving and waving and waving. The last thing I saw her do was she threw a little kiss to me as I threw it to her.
"Well, Gladys ran and found her down the road. I yelled for Gladys and told her the story real quickly and she went and found her and found out her name was Sarah, and she told her completely in French Creole exactly what I was going to do and I was going to go to America and I was going to let the people of America have the joy of seeing in the spirit what I got to see there and going to any store and buying a doll or a truck yourself. And you pray over that little doll and you pray over that little truck and you send it in. And then Ed and Ella put a little tag on it in French Creole. We've had them made in Indonesian, in Chinese, in Russian, in all the languages of the world. Spanish and Kalasa. They went to South Africa. I don't know how you write (sounding) click, click, click, but they know how to write that. And in every language of the world it says this that Jesus loves you. This doll comes to you from somebody that loves you very, very much. And his name is Jesus. And there's a picture of Jesus holding the children on that little tag. And the story is this. I talked to you the partners and oh my, the dolls started coming. The dolls started coming in. I remember one night I was at praise and there was a precious little papa. A bald-headed angel papa. My little daddy was bald-headed. So bald-headed little papas are so special to me. He was sitting in the audience. I used to kiss him right on the top of his head all the time. I loved it. Leave little lipstick on the top of his head. He couldn't see it because he couldn't do this in the mirror. So he always had a little kiss mark on the top of his head.
"This papa was sitting in the audience and I passed by and he said (gestured) to me. I walked over. He had a little brown sack and he said, Jan, I'm 70 years old and never married and never had children and never had grandchildren. He said I didn't know how to pick out dolls. I've never bought a doll in my life, but he said, you said don't bring money, and I wanted to be a part of this. So I went down to Kmart and he said I went in and I picked out a little blonde, a brunette and little redhead dolls and I have them for you. I opened it and it was the sweetest thing you've ever seen. He had never bought a doll before.
"So we got the word to Gladys that we were coming back to Haiti and I was bringing ten thousand dolls. And I said to Gladys, 'Gladys, find Sarah.' her name was Sarah. She said to me on the phone from Haiti. She said Oh, Jan, I don't have to go find Sarah. She said every single day that little girl comes to this feeding center and she says to me, Oh, Madame Pastor, how many more sleeps before the lady comes with the dolls? And Gladys said every day I take her fingers and I tell her how many more sleeps it's going to be before the lady comes with the dolls. And she says, Jan, we're down to eight fingers now, but says she still comes every day and waits here until she can find me and says, Madame Pastor, how many more days, how many more sleeps before the lady comes with the dolls? So she said it's coming now. It's eight days now, Jan. I'm holding up eight fingers. She's ready for you to get here. So God's precious people had sent in over ten thousand. We packed them. When we got down there, you cannot imagine.
"Every little child had been told that the lady with the dolls was coming. And I tell you there must have been -- well every doll went out, so there were ten thousand children there that day when we got there. But when I walked in I was sitting waiting for little Sarah, and she says oh, she'll be here, don't you worry. Last night she got to close both hands and said she knows today is the day that you're coming with the dolls, said, she'll be here.
"So not more than the time that we'd opened a few of the boxes and I found the most beautiful bride Barbie doll somebody sent. And down that little rocky path again came little Sarah, and this time grinning from ear to ear. She bathed her little face and combed her little hair so straight and found some kind of a little -- not a ribbon. It looked like it was a piece of cord like she found a cord like someone tied a horse up or something. And she made it all like a bow. And she stuck this in her hair with a little piece of wire. And she was the cutest little thing. Bare footed but clean. And when she walked up there and I was able to hand into those little arms the little bride doll and showed her the picture of Jesus on it. And I said Sarah who gave this to you? And that little hand went straight up to Jesus, Jesus did. Jesus did. And that's the joy of being able to do that. |
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