Tomorrow is coming much more quickly than we anticipated. I know that sentence does not make a lot of sense, but stay with me for a little while and you will understand what I mean. We will be leaving from Haiti at 12:51 and arriving in Jacksonville at 6:51 tomorrow evening after having been in […]
I know I said I would write the next blog about our 2 big annual fundraisers, but I saw a slogan on the sign of a national charity and I had to get my thoughts about it down on paper. I am not sure if it was just a Christmas slogan or if it is […]
One of the things that a lot of people ask us is how All Things New operates while we are in America. This is a very valid question especially since so many things have kept us stateside recently. We will always have fundraising responsibilities and because of that we will always spend some time in […]
This past Sunday, since it was the second Sunday in November, was designated as Orphan Sunday in an attempt to bring awareness to the orphan crisis around the world. As you know, All Things New is a ministry dedicated to orphan care specifically in Haiti and we did not want to pass up this opportunity […]
Did you know that 33% of Americans consider adoption but less than 2% actually adopt? What a crazy statistic, that there are that many people here who get to the point of considering adoption but so few people follow through. There are many barriers to adoption including fear, a “stigma” associated with adoption, your age, […]
There are a few blogs that we have been thinking about writing over the past few weeks, but I wanted to take some time today to focus on the month of November in the world of adoption and orphan care. In 1984 President Reagan proclaimed one week in November National Adoption week, President Clinton extended […]
I actually had a completely different blog written and ready to post about Adoption Awareness and then realized what a huge day today is for America. The right to vote is so important to our nation and to us as individuals to be able to voice our opinion on who our leaders will be. There […]
I will be preaching in an American church for the first time in a quite a while on November 13 (which is also Orphan Sunday) and I wanted to share some thoughts that I have been having about this sermon. I am not sure if this is the direction I will go because I have […]
First of all, we just had an amazing couple of days of fundraising in LaGrange and we will be updating you and writing a blog about that soon. We have wonderful supporters in LaGrange and it was great getting to see everyone and updating everyone on what has been going on at All Things New […]
Over the past week or so I have talked about how blessed we were through the devastation of Hurricane Matthew, and we (my family, our kids, and All Things New) absolutely were blessed. The problem is that there are whole cities in Haiti where people who were struggling to feed their families and send their […]
Just so you know, there will still be at least 2 more blogs about the hurricane and its affect on this nation. The truth is that it was one of those defining events and we here on the ground are still trying to process everything that happened. I have mentioned before that blogging actually helps […]
We made it through the storm on Tuesday and I still had not really left the house. I tried to go down to the kids’ house at one point right after the winds subsided but a tree was blocking the road and when I got out to walk around it we had about 2-3 feet […]
