How do you describe Christ's love?

In Haiti, street vendors or "marchands" line almost every inch of the sidewalks. Everything is sold on the streets: cell phone parts, pills, water, vegetables. Mostly women sell produce, and many times, their children spend the day on the street with them. As we started picking children up off the street to teach them, my heart broke for the children that spent their days sitting on a rock in the blazing sun (90+ degrees). People (parents or other guardians) also have children sell for them, and those children can't leave their "posts".

But yesterday was a victory, because I had been asking this girl's mother for several days if she could come to our program, and she finally agreed! Her name is Rudline and she was 9 years old. When we had almost arrived to my grandma's store, we saw another tiny boy selling bread in the sweltering sun. His mother wasn't out with him but the woman selling bread next to him agreed to allow him to come with us. His name is Lesly and he's 8 years old (he looked like he was 5 or 6). We were exhausted from the day before when we taught at a school, to which we hiked for an hour and a half to get there, so we just decided to work with two children that day. During our math lesson, we found out that Lesly had never been to school, so we started with just identifying numbers. But this kid started doing addition and multiplication with us! I was blown away.

In our Bible study, I asked them if they knew if Jesus loved them. Lesly point-blank admitted that he did not; I was kind of dumbfounded. Because the majority of people in Haiti have been exposed to Christianity, when I've asked children that question previously, they all responded, "Yes." So I attempted to share the Gospel with them, and share how much Jesus loves them. I now give mad props to people who work with children, because to make the profound simple enough to understand is tough. Please keep these children in your prayers. Much love,
Gabrielle