St. Louis, Missouri, April 2025
Dear Friends and Prayer partners,
Greetings from St. Louis Missouri! I know most of you are wondering if I am still in the USA. Yes, I am still here until July 2025, when I am scheduled to
return to Barahona.
My being in the USA has not diminished or reduced our teaching and prayer ministry in Barahona. Our Lord continues to add more intercessors to our daily prayer time as well as my weekly Wednesday teaching online. This continues to be a good time with my students, who can’t wait to have me back with them. PRAISE HIS NAME FOREVER!
My church here in St. Louis has a Community Care ministry that provides food to the neighborhood of poor Haitian immigrants one Saturday per month. I am in the right place at the right time, to help minister in Creole to the many Haitians coming for food. To GOD BE THE GLORY!
This has been a good time of visiting churches that support our COTN ministry, giving them reports of what our Lord is doing in the five countries where HE sent Children of the Nations, that is celebrating its 30th year serving the Lord, HALLELUJAH!
Back in the D.R., the situation with the Dominico-Haitians seems to get worse as the years pass. The Dominican people are upset and protesting against so many illegal Haitians who continue to flood into their country. There has been many marches and protests that call for the government to deal with this matter. OUR GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL!
Since I have been here I visited several family members. I spent some time in Bremerton, WA, with my daughter Carolina, who needed help with her newborn Danielito. I had a blessed and treasured time with Danielito, and his happy parents Daniel and Carolina. I also had the opportunity to meet Daniel’s parents and make many new friends.
I then went to the Great Commission Festival in Trail, Oregon. It has been eight years since I participated in this very interesting missions festival. As the name implies, every year in February my church, Trail Christian Fellowship, gathers together all their available missionaries to meet, greet and teach the congregation about the various missions they support. Trail Christian Fellowship has supported the work of my ministry in Haiti and the Dominican Republic since I started in 1995. After eight years of absence, I had a tremendous time re-connecting with old friends and meeting new missionaries.
My daughter Lucrecia would never forgive me if did not visit her in Hampton, Tennessee. Even though she was with me in Barahona this past year, she made sure I dropped by to be with her boys Jedediah and Jared and her husband David. We had a short but fruitful and precious time of hugging, kissing, checking after school homework, Bible studies and reciting Bible verses. It was a lot of fun! GOD is so good to me.
Finally, back in St. Louis, our Lord surprised us with the approval of the bank loan for my daughter Natalie to purchase her own home! His timing is always perfect. Until now, because of her student loan, the bank would not approve a loan to buy a home. She was tired of paying a high monthly rent for a small apartment. I got to be there with Nat in her search for a home. We spent every afternoon for the past seven weeks looking for the home our Lord has for her. Talk about adventure! HALLELUJAH!
ADD YOUR PRAYERS TO MINE
A THANKSGIVING PRAYER to our Lord for His Goodness and His Mercy to us as HE promises never to leave us nor forsake us.
A THANKSGIVING PRAYER to Jehovah Rapha, our Healer, for the healing of my body.
A THANKSGIVING PRAYER for the technology allowing me to stay in touch with my people in Barahona, despite of the distance separating us.
A THANKSGIVING PRAYER to Jehovah Jireh, our Provider, in His time and His way the home that Nat needed became a reality.
Add your prayer to ours to the KING OF THE NATIONS for the situation of the Dominico-Haitians. We are praying for the right solution that will bring peace to both nations.
Since my daughter Carolina, who was living with me in Barahona, moved to the USA, I have a great need to find the right young woman to take her place, so I will not live alone in Barahona. May the GOD OF THE IMPOSSIBLE grant this request.
I do not cease to THANK GOD for all of you, for your prayers and financial support during my 33 years in the mission field. Truly the harvest is ready but the laborers are few. We still need more missionaries in the Dominican Republic to disciple the youth, reach out to the kids and minister to the marriages in trouble. Help us to pray to the Lord of the harvest to provide such laborers.
May God’s Hands be over you and your loved ones in these difficult times. May His promises be manifested daily in your life while we are waiting for our soon coming King of kings and Lord of lords.
Love and blessings from your missionary friend in Barahona Dominican Republic,
Malou Faublas
Feel free to contact me with any questions at cotnbara@gmail.com or call 786-901-2534 or Barahona 809-524-5273
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Dancing in the Fire: The true story of Malou Faublas, a single woman missionary in Haiti & Dominican Republic
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Published Fri, Sep 03, 21. Written by Kelly Flannery.
When the COVID-19 pandemic threw the world into chaos, many governments tried to provide aid and relief to their citizens. But what if you weren’t a citizen of any country?
Many of the children we serve in the Dominican Republic would have been left to face the pandemic alone. They are stateless.
These individuals were born in the Dominican Republic (DR), but because their parents, grandparents, or even great-grandparents are from Haiti, they aren’t recognized as citizens.
In the eyes of many in the Dominican government, they do not exist.
That means more than 133,000 people in the DR don’t have access to any public services like education, medical care, clean water, or government aid. They can’t vote. They have no rights.
This keeps them in a vicious cycle of poverty that is nearly impossible to escape.
Imagine being told you don’t belong in the only home you’ve ever known. That you also don’t belong in the country your ancestors are from. That you aren’t worthy of the care and compassion the other people around you are shown. What would that tell you about your worth? How could you feel any sense of dignity?
In the DR, one of the most dire secondhand effects of the pandemic has been the food and hunger crisis. While Dominican citizens received food from the government, children and families who are stateless have not.
This affects many of the children that Children of the Nations (COTN) serves in the DR. About 50% of them are stateless.
COTN usually receives funding and meals to feed these children through the school system. But this support went away when schools closed during the pandemic.
Francisco, our country director in the DR, says that during the pandemic many of the parents weren’t able to leave their homes to find work—it seemed that there would be no way for them to feed their families. But “Thanks to [Children of the Nations], during the pandemic the children had food on their tables every day.”
Thanks to your generosity, not one child in the communities we serve has gone hungry during the pandemic. You helped feed 1,451 children and their families throughout 2020.
You also provided clean water, hygiene kits, medical distributions, health checkups, and more to keep children and their families safe during the pandemic. Without your help, the children would have no access to these resources.
The problems Haitian-Dominicans face are a big part of why Children of the Nations came to the Dominican Republic. Now, you are changing the lives of thousands of these children—children like Luisa.
Luisa grew up without any basic services. She could not dream of attending school—her community had none. “In the past,” she shares, “it was very difficult to study because we did not have a school and we were discouraged to study.” But that changed when COTN came to her community and built a school. Finally, Luisa could get an education and dream of a better future.
Now, she works as a teacher for COTN and is an inspiration to the children in her community. “Many children say they want to be like me in the future, a teacher,” says Luisa.
COTN also serves Haitian-Dominicans through our medical clinic. Because of this clinic, children and their families who can’t afford medical care are able to receive the life-saving surgeries, medicines, and treatments they need. Hundreds of surgeries are performed there each year through the help of visiting surgical teams.
Because of you, lives and communities have been transformed. But there is still much more work to be done.
The DR has been hard hit by the pandemic, and they had another severe spike of cases in June. During this spike, schools had to return to virtual learning, ICU capacity filled up, food prices skyrocketed, and some of the children and staff were infected. The challenges of this pandemic aren’t over yet.
But with you by their side, these children will have the physical, educational, social, and spiritual care they need to become the next generation of leaders. These children will know they matter, they are worthy of care, and they belong right where they are.
P.S. To help children in the Dominican Republic, donate to the Dominican Republic - Most Urgent Funding Needs fund.
