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GUESTS & LINKS
SUSIE SCOTT KRABACHER & HER STORY
www.haitichildren.com
Susie Scott Krabacher is
founder and president of the Sharing and Mercy Foundation dedicated
to saving, feeding and educating the poorest of the poor in
Haiti. Susie spends nearly every waking hour working
with Haitian children and draws no salary.
SUSIE KRABACHER’S STORY as told to Lorna Dueck
How did you come to follow Jesus?
I became a Christian when I was 8. My
grandfather, from 4-8 years old, raped me. When my mom finally caught
him I knew why - it was because I constantly prayed. I prayed as he did
it, after he did it. Due to lots of tragedy and confused boundaries my
mom lost her mind after that and so I went to many foster homes.
As time went by, I lost all sense of boundaries and lost God and left him in the dust…
My brother was showing real signs of
homosexuality and he was only 12. He had been raped too and I could see
him falling apart and I wanted him out of the house. So when Playboy
came along it seemed like the only answer, I was only 17 and I posed
nude. Playboy is not a good thing for anyone. Not for those who look at
it or for men and women who fashion themselves after it. However look
at its popularity – its one of Satan’s greatest tools.
I decided in my mind that it was okay and
so my boundaries changed bit by bit. Playboy was my agent and I did 75
different photo shoots with them and traveled all over the world
representing them. I worked with them for 10 years and I was thrown
into the middle of every kind of sin you could imagine.
Satan brought me to the lowest low you
could ever want – I married one of America’s Most Wanted
Men. He had five identities, I was married to him for two years, and
coming back from a European trip to Aspen we were stopped at a
roadblock by FBI and Aspen police and they pulled him out of the car by
another name. I yelled, “You’ve got the wrong guy
“– but the sheriff knew me and said “Susie, this is
not who you think it is”.
My husband took all my money and put it
into another account. I ended up walking up and down the streets of
Aspen and knocked on doors looking for cleaning jobs and took work as a
maid. On the third day of knocking on doors, a paraplegic woman in a
wheelchair took me in and I worked for her.
My husband was threatening me from jail and I had no money for a lawyer to get a divorce.
I went to the nearest lawyer’s office
and traded cooking and cleaning for the divorce lawyer’s help.
The next day he had 40 shirts in his office for me to iron.
That’s Joe! That was the upturn. We’ve been married 17 years.
I met Jesus when I started going to church
(the day after we got engaged). I got up and said, I’m going to
church, and I don’t care. He hadn’t been to church since he
was a toddler and he came with me to church. It happened to be
communion Sunday (by the way, we still go to that church). Joe (he is
6.10 tall) thought he was getting invited to come to the front. He was
completely hung over at the time. He was given the communion plate
anyway, and he came to the Lord in spite of his state. That was 17
years ago and today he is a mighty man of God!
I moved through the church thing for about
3-4 years until I got the GRACE thing. One day it finally hit me. Up
until then I was on a guilt trip with God. Something in my heart caused
me to imagine myself standing before God. All I’d have to say is
“thanks God, I had a great life and I was happy” That
didn’t seem good enough to me …
So I thought, “well God – what if I could say- I have held the poor and that’s why you made me”.
What would I need to do to be able to say
that? The first time I looked into the eyes of a dying child – I
realized I was helping an angel go to heaven.
The first time I slept in a slum and I saw
painful death – I felt equal to some form of humanity, I never
felt I fit in until I really fit in with the poor. It was devastating
for me to see it
The believe that the reason I had to go through such hell as a child was to be doing what I do now.
How do you sustain yourself in this work?
The Holy Spirit is what has really, really
equipped me -- He gives us the supernatural words to be protected and
sustained in what I do. Every day I put myself in a little corner to
have my prayer time. Every day I pray and read my bible. I know when
I’m with my Lord I’m invincible. I truly believe those
prayers, and prayers of my girlfriends, and of my church and especially
of little kids, - the prayer makes this happen.
God took my childhood away so I could be an
adult kid – I really, really can be a kid with them. I’ve
been doing that for 12 years now.
Susie, Are you really ready to have these people adopt babies?
Yes, we don’t charge for adoptions -
not a dime. It’s best to go through the government of Haiti.
We’re starting as soon as the new president takes his seat. This
is impossible without the government’s aid and now we believe the
government will become stable. - The average time it takes for adoption
is 9-12 months – my dream for every one of the orphans is to be
placed. We have 3 orphanages, 6 schools and a hospital, taking care of
3300 children. They have all been legally abandoned and some are
handicapped and terminally ill.
150 ready for adoption – about 60 %
are severely handicapped and terminally ill - when we got them some are
so far malnourished they had their systems shut down and disabilities
resulted.
She was on Oprah a couple of times – and a lot of people are really interested in adopting handicapped kids.
What spiritual realities do you encounter in this work?
We have been under spiritual attack
especially for the last ten years because I believe in bringing hope
for a Savior is really stepping on Satan’s toes
We’re stepping on Voodoo - a lot of
people think it’s a cool religion, but it wouldn’t be
possible to exaggerate the effect of Voodoo on the country
I have 150 employees --every time they are
sick they come running in saying someone has put a curse on them and
this response even after doing daily Bible Studies with them
Every time I go into the morgue there are
vats of human body parts. Remember the Miami woman who went down to
Haiti and came back with a human head in her suitcase two weeks ago?
Even having our funerals - for my own self I do it so these little kids know they were loved.
How do you spiritually equip yourself?
I am an avid studier of my Bible –
there are day’s depression overcomes me – it’s
overwhelming. Paul, the apostle, is my hero. I think of myself like him
“I was the worst of sinners” - that is why God chose me to
do this work.
What are the spiritual realities you encounter?
I see the demon possessed. A child in my
care now, Junior, bit me and fought me and the sounds that came out of
his mouth - I can’t even tell you. I felt someone had raped the
child. When the government heard a child was in my care that had not
been bribed to me – they took him from me and demanded my
generator in exchange. Four months later I went back to the government
building and I heard screaming from the building. As I walked
downstairs, the screaming got louder and I saw something moving in an
outdoor crowd of pigs. It was Junior, living with those pigs. I crawled
under the barbed wire and took him – and he’s been in my
possession ever since. I’ve had him 7 years, and I’m
certain he is demon possessed and we just can’t seem to pray it
out.
My bible study group and I are going to try and fast and pray now for Junior.
I have twice been asked to be an Observer
of the elections – it’s a real honor. Aristide’s was
a corrupt election, I saw it.
A year ago when Aristide fled the country,
the Chimera or secret police service (the ghost) held 62 of my
handicapped and terminally ill orphans and employee’s hostage. I
had to fly in from Aspen and negotiate for them.
How dangerous has it become for you?
March 2/05 – The Wall St. Journal
reported an assassination attempt on my life by the Chimera. By the
grace of God, my command of Creole got perfect that night and I was
able to talk to the guy and he had mercy because I had helped one of
his friends. I even got my car back washed.
I pray every day on my knees that Preval
will seek Jesus. It will be only thing that will heal this country -
the only thing. A Christian coalition party even ran – loads of
money was donated but they came in 17 out of 33. But God has a bigger
plan -- He can change Preval’s heart?
I would stake my heart on the fact that if
godly men and women rule that country, it will thrive. The poverty will
go away. SIN rules the land. Haiti is a graveyard for missionaries. If
something does not change, this is fertile ground for terrorism –
poverty breeds anger, and anger breeds hatred and that’s exactly
what we have here – the Haitians think America can help them but
they don’t – and so they hate Americans right now.
In every effort – corruption has stood between the poor and us.
I have been sued so many times by government officials – they want my land, my truck.
Do you have children of your own?
We made a conscious decision to not have children because I could not leave a child to go care for those in Haiti
Is it okay to you that your faith is quiet?
Jesus never went out into the world and
said ‘I’m a Christian’, He just went out on their
level - if I went in shouting ‘I’m a Christian’
– they would never hang out with me.they would feel I’m a
threat.
Why has the Press not reported you are a Christian?
I always, always tell the reporters I am a
Christian and Satan does not allow it to get in the news. The last time
I went to Haiti (because of the election) many people wanted to travel
with me, and the only thing I asked was “please tell people that
I just want God to be proud of his servant”. I want people to see
God in me; I want to never waste an opportunity for god.
Even Oprah cut me off when I tried to say my testimony.
The guy who started EBay founded a
production company and now they are doing a movie on my life. For a
whole year I fought back and forth that my Christian story be in there
and that they can tell my story about the rape when I was little -
everything. The only thing I ask is that you represent my life now as a
Christian – and it blew the deal – but I prayed and prayed
and my pastor called and we got signed. The testimony will be in the
movie.
I just finished my book, Angels of a lower flight – it has gone to editor but I don’t have a publisher yet.
The book is about coming back to God
– its my testimony to my Savior - it is really open and
straightforward – even forgiven sin has consequences and I talk
about it and also the blessings. I have seen a lot of pain. My brother
was gay, got Aids, suffered, and killed himself at age 26.
©2006 Lorna Dueck/ListenUp TV, Feb 21, 2006
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www.ncecc.ca
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Ontario Provincial Police Project "P" http://www.opp.ca/projp/english/
Prudence sur le NET! Brochure for families published by Sureté du Québec http://www.suretequebec.gouv.qc.ca/publications/prudence.pdf
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Interest Groups
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Canadians Addressing Sexual Exploitation (CASE) http://www.c-a-s-e.net/
Childnet International http://www.childnet-int.org/
deal.org http://www.deal.org
Child Find Manitoba / Cybertip.ca http://www.cybertip.ca
ECPAT International http://www.ecpat.net/eng/index.asp
National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children Canada site http://ca.missingkids.com/ U.S. Site http://www.missingkids.com/
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Internet Safety Group, New Zealand http://www.netsafe.org.nz/home/home_default.asp
Virtual Global Taskforce http://www.virtualglobaltaskforce.com
Private sector
The Canadian Association of Internet Providers http://www.caip.ca
Disney Safe Surfing http://www.disney.co.uk/DisneyOnline/Safesurfing/index.html
Microsoft Canada http://www.microsoft.com/canada/default.mspx
Government of Canada
Department of Justice Canada http://www.canada.justice.gc.ca
Government of Canada http://www.schoolnet.ca
Industry Canada http://www.cyberwise.ca
Government of Canada http://www.youth.gc.ca
Industry Canada http://www.ic.gc.ca
Public Safety and Preparedness Canada’s National Crime Prevention Strategy http://www.prevention.gc.ca
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