What is humility? Why is it important? How do I attain something that seems so difficult? It’s funny that the answer to each of these questions is the same and is found in the person of Jesus Christ. He is humility, it is important because we follow Christ and He tells us it is important, […]
What are some things we tend to rejoice in during a normal week, month, or year? I know the answer to that question varies from person to person and really from week to week. I was thinking about our rejoicing in our recent silent auction. This was our first big fundraiser, and it was incredible. […]
I wanted to put up another quick post of some things I was thinking about today. I realized, since coming back to the states, how convenient certain things are that will be a little difficult to not have right at our fingertips. I thought I would put a few here in the blog, and if […]
Jess and I arrived back in Jacksonville this past Tuesday, and it has been both really good and really difficult at the same time. When we arrived home, we saw a “For Sale” sign in our yard, and it was surreal to think that we are trying to sell our house. But then we took […]
I have experienced something the past few weeks that I have just been able to put my finger on. I have probably experienced it before, but living here for the past month I think it has become very evident to me. I have become so aware of intense physical needs among people that live around […]
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 […]
Hopefully each of you guys read this post that Jess made last week about some things that she has seen here that we never thought we would see. If you have not, you should click the link and read it, it is very interesting, funny, and sad at the same time. Anyway, with that said, […]
First of all, this Jessica, not Matt. I am 31 years old and in the process of moving to Haiti to run an orphanage. Over the last two years we have been to Haiti about 13 times. Most of these trips have been for a week or 2 at a time and right now we […]
After a full year of looking forward to being full-time with All Things New, the time has finally come! We are in Haiti for the next month and it will be our longest stay to date. So far, our time here has been great. We have a nice house that Christianville is allowing us to […]
As many of you know, we just got back from a week long trip to Haiti with a team of 12. This last trip was a blast! We took my parents, Jessica’s parents, my sister and brother-in-law, Jared and Natalie Nobles, and Chase and Angela Covington. We wanted to show our friends and family what […]
The past few weeks seem to have been really difficult for some reason. As many of you know, my grandfather (Dang Dang as we affectionately called him) passed away a little over a week ago. It wasn’t sudden, and he had a long and wonderful life, but it was still tough. We were very close […]
I have to be honest about something to start with…I did go shopping on Black Friday. I am not necessarily against Black Friday in general, but it is definitely not my favorite day of the year by any means. It is a tradition for my family in LaGrange for us to go either to Newnan […]
