AUGUST 2025
Dear Friends and Prayer Partners,
GREETINGS from Barahona!
Yes, I came back to Barahona this past July 1st, and by God’s grace, I have survived the changes. After nine months in the USA, where I was spoiled
with water and electricity twenty-four hours a day, garbage pickup once or twice a week, it took me two weeks to make some adjustments to my
Barahonian lifestyle and my new schedule. Our water shows up every four OR five days (for one and half hour), and the daily electricity blackout that
interrupts the internet, and the garbage pickup that is whenever.
When I arrived everybody was waiting for me—some sincerely missed me and others could not wait to dump all the challenges of the ministries on me
that they were facing while I was away.
Before I came back, like always, I made sure that I was in God’s will and that I received from HIM my assignments. Because HE is
the only WISE GOD, HE wanted me to come back to Barahona but HE did not say anything about my assignments, and now I know why! Because if HE did, HE knew I will hesitate to come back.
BUT HIS GRACE IS SUFFICIENT FOR ME so all the GLORY IS HIS. The minute I set foot in Barahona HE revealed to me my next assignments:
Upon my arrival, Kenisha my missionary friend from Canada, whom I have mentored for the past twelve
years, finally took her first sabbatical year. With that, she left me most of her mission: the care of her staff with their expenses, and her challenging youth ministry. With God’s approval and my earthly manager’s approval, I am at peace on the matter.
Double ministry, double blessing! Age is not a problem for our Lord. Moses started his ministry when he was 80 years old, so as long I am blessed with good physical, mental and emotional health, the word “retirement” is not part of my vocabulary.
GOOD NEWS
Many people have been asking about our Children of the Nations ministry in Haiti. After the gangs took over Haiti, we could not have Summer Camp as we usually do because the gathering of people was prohibited in the capital and our mission is located some thirteen kilometers from Port au Prince, the capital. But our Lord blessed us with a miracle. This past July, we gathered most of our two-hundred kids and adolescents for one day at the beach. You can see the pictures. That is very good news, even though after that Beach Day, our meetings with them have been limited and many of them have lost their homes and are living with relatives far from our mission.
More GOOD NEWS is that our Lord surprised me with Ana. My daughters and friends have been very concerned about me living alone in my house in Barahona. They were praying for the Lord to send the right person to be a live-in companion for me, just in case something happens. So HE answered their prayers by sending me Ana, a 16 year old Dominico-Haitian (born here in Barahona to Haitian parents). She speaks perfect Spanish, she goes to high school here and is very smart. Ana is the second of a family of seven kids. Her parents just moved back to Haiti because of the strong persecution of the illegal Haitians lately in the Dominican Republic.
PLEASE ADD YOUR PRAYERS TO MINE
· A PRAISE prayer for the blessing of having Ana as my new companion. We had never seen each other before but she fits perfectly in God’s plan for our
lives. HALLELUJAH!
· A THANKSGIVING prayer for my total health. Being very active at 80 years old is a blessing that I don’t take for granted. TO GOD BE THE GLORY!
· The situation of my temporary Dominican Visa is still in HIS Hands. I am grateful for little steps that have been done through a very complex and disorganized Immigration Department. I am trusting the Alpha and Omega for complete victory in this ordeal!
· Because the original founders of Children of the Nations, Chris and Debbie Clark have retired from our mission, (after 30 years of hard labor), please add your prayers to ours for God to bring the right CEO for Children of the Nations.
· Please continue to pray for the peace of Haiti. Anything going on in our neighboring nation of Haiti affects the Dominican Republic. There is so much corruption and injustice on the border between the D.R. and Haiti that needs to be stopped.
I CAN’T THANK GOD ENOUGH FOR YOUR SUPPORT DURING MY THIRTY YEARS on the mission field. I thank you all for your prayers on my
behalf and your faithful friendship. I love you all very dearly. May our Lord continue to shine His Countenance upon you and your loved ones.
I love all very dearly, your missionary friend in the 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
To view my book: go to Amazon.com/books and type in Malou Faublas in the search)
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.
