I don’t know how many of you remember a blog that I posted a while ago about a dental experience I had here in Haiti a few months ago, but if you missed it, click here to read about it. That experience was much different than others I have had in the states, and today […]
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 […]
Many of you may be wondering why we have said, on numerous occasions, we need more funding now than ever. I want to talk about the biggest reason for this being the case…New Hires! We have had to make multiple new hires for our children and for the ministry to function well. I can assure […]
Over the past few weeks, we have been sharing a lot of things that have been happening down here in Haiti. We have moved our children to Hope Rising’s campus, we have been living with the children 24/7, and we have learned a lot about running an orphanage and taking care of the children of […]
I am going to start this post by stating that I am not an an expert on the global orphan crisis nor do I want to change your mind or your definition of what it means for a child to be an orphan. I do know that many of our sponsors and supporters were confused […]
We wanted to use our next blog to describe what a typical school days looks like for the kids now. The kids wake up every morning at 5:15am and take showers. Right now we have a girl “House Mom” and a boy “House Mom”. They each wake up their room full of kids and begin […]
Some of you may be wondering why I never came back to our 2 children whose Mom did not show up on Saturday. I didn’t forget, I just wanted to tell this story by itself so you could hear specifically what happened to these 2. First of all, some of you may be wondering, “Why […]
So after what could easily be considered the worst week of my life, Saturday arrived. I woke up at 5:00am and couldn’t go back to sleep. I got up to pray which was hard to do. I couldn’t do anything but tell God we needed Him and the kids needed Him. I had no fancy […]
This is a continuation of a story we have been telling over the past few weeks, so if you have not been keeping up, please click here for Part 1, click here for Part 2, click here for Part 3, click here for Part 4, click here for Part 5, or click here for Part 6 so that the story will make sense. So Saturday […]
Yesterday Matt covered in such detail what went on between Wednesday and Saturday of that week that I decided to share something different today. About a month ago, I read Psalm 12 and would like to share it in light of everything that has been going on with us, with the kids, and with Audancin: […]
This is a continuation of a story we have been telling over the past few weeks, so if you have not been keeping up, please click here for Part 1, click here for Part 2, click here for Part 3, click here for Part 4, or click here for Part 5 so that the story will make sense. We now had a place […]
This is a continuation of a story we have been telling over the past few weeks, so if you have not been keeping up, please click here for Part 1, click here for Part 2, click here for Part 3, or click here for Part 4 so that the story will make sense. At this point, we knew we needed to […]
