Things almost never go how you want them to. Please do not read this blog and think I am complaining about anything. I know how blessed we are and I know that we have more than most people in the world. I am just making a general observation based on what tends to happen in […]
We have recently gone through a very subtle but very necessary and important transition at All Things New. I want to first describe what we have accomplished, why we have accomplished it, and how it is different than what we thought we were going to do when we started All Things New 2 years ago. […]
It has been so great having a team down with us for the past week, and we have done some incredible things. We built a new building for our security guard to sit to stay out of the elements, we went to church with the kids, we brought the kids new school shoes, and we […]
Matt and I were talking the day we traveled back to Haiti and thought it might make a fun blog so here goes. We traveled back last Saturday, January 3. I woke up at 3:00am making sure to give myself plenty of time to take the last hot shower for quite a while. Matt got […]
I was listening to a sermon recently that focused on the idea of worldwide poverty, and I wanted to talk about what poverty looks like. It is so hard to describe poverty if you have never seen it firsthand, if you have never smelled it, or have never known people who lived in it. It […]
I decided, after hearing Jess’ idea, that I would write my list of things I miss as well. Some of the things are similar and some of them are quite different, but it was pretty fun to write. We will also both write the “Top 10 Things I Miss About Haiti” when we are back […]
There are a lot of things in Haiti that we will get to experience for the first time. We have experienced weddings, graduations, school meetings, immigration, etc. and we will continue to experience new things the longer we live here. Today I want to tell you about our most recent experience, a funeral. I want […]
I want to start by apologizing for not blogging for a while. Almost every time we come down to Haiti I get a little sick, and it happened again this past Saturday. I started with a cold that turned into a little fever that turned into a big cough that is just now going away. […]
Since January of this past year, Matt and I have been taking Creole lessons with Mackenson. This is not the Mackenson at the orphanage. It is a very common name here. This is the son of Julihomme who works for Christianville. Mackenson just finished up his last year of High School at the age of […]
I need to apologize for not posting for a while. Jess and I just recently returned from Haiti and decided to take a few days for ourselves when we first got here. We realized that for the past month in Haiti, we did not take a day off of work, and we needed a little […]
I have learned something about visitors in Haiti. This is a generality and not a rule, but it seems to hold up most of the time. Here is the principle…The younger you are and the less time you have spent in Haiti, the more you know about what will fix the country. The older you are […]
We are heading back to Haiti this coming Monday, and we are very excited. The a/c has been wonderful, the food even better, and getting to see friends and family has been awesome, but we are really ready to be back. We cannot wait to see our kids and begin the process of enrolling them […]
