I taught kindergarten in the public school system in Jacksonville, Florida for 8 years. Although it was a challenging job and I went to bed most nights by 9:00pm, I absolutely loved it. During these 8 years, I took my first trip down to Haiti in which I met the kids. That trip turned into […]
This is the last blog for the week, and next week we plan on going back to our normal 1-2 per week. Thanks so much for reading and keeping up with our ministry. I cannot say enough how encouraging it is to have you behind us and how much we need and covet your prayers. […]
I wanted to put up a few blogs this week since we missed the last couple of weeks at One Spark and then on vacation, and I wanted to just write a quick blog about Easter. Not about the holiday or the bunny or anything like that. I just wanted to take some time to […]
Going in to today I had a feeling it was gonna be a crazy one. I decided I would take notes on it and try to remember as much as I could at the end of it. Then Matt thought it would be fun for each of us to write it from our own perspective. […]
I wanted to update everyone about our most recent team that left from Haiti this past Saturday. We had a blast being with them and having them hang out with our kids, and we have gotten to meet a lot of people the past few days. While the team was here, we got to do […]
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, […]
There are so many people to thank for their help in our silent auction this past Saturday evening. As I mentioned in a previous blog, Jess and I did not do a lot leading up to the event. In fact, we were actually in Haiti until about 2 weeks before the auction took place so […]
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 […]
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 […]
