There are 2 questions that I have been asked more often in the past 4 weeks than I could attempt to count. The question that I am asked the most is, “Do you have a job for me/my wife/my sister/my friend?” I will write a blog about that question soon, but the other question that […]
We go back to Haiti early Friday morning, and we can’t wait. It has been a great time back in the states for the last month, and we have done a lot of things that we needed and wanted to do. I just wanted to take some time to recap our time here and to […]
Don’t go to Haiti unless you want to change the way you think about everything in your life. Nobody told me that last year, and I’m glad they didn’t. I just got back several weeks ago from my second trip to Haiti and it finds a way into every area of your life. Through my […]
Tomorrow is the first big event for All Things New! We are meeting from 5:00-7:00 pm at the San Marco Preservation Hall here in Jacksonville, FL to celebrate what GOD has been doing in and through All Things New. The last few months have seemed like they have been moving way too fast! There have […]
So everyone has been telling me I need to write a blog about All Things New and the orphanage. That it shouldn’t just be coming from Matt’s perspective, which I agree with. As I sit down to write I have only 1 thing I can write about and that’s my kids. I sit here in […]
Something happened recently in our adoption process that made me want to post about our adoption process again (nothing specific, just an email from our agency discussing some seminars coming up, etc.). Throughout this process, we have stayed so busy that there have been times that I almost don’t even think about our upcoming adoption, […]
A couple of weeks ago we had our first fundraising dinner for All Things New. One of our advisory team members, Karen Whalen, came up with this idea for people who believe in this ministry to help get our name to as many people as possible. The idea is simple. A family expresses their desire […]
If you ever decide to start a non-profit organization, and especially an international orphanage for the first time…I have 1 really big piece of advice for you – Get a Great Advisory Team! It is so clear that GOD put this team into place because we could never have gotten such a wonderful group […]
