If you have not had a chance to read our blog from Tuesday, please click here. The way that Jess described the difficulty of coming home and the difficulty of the daily routine of the children that we love will really help you to understand what GOD is leading us to do. I am going […]
We are so excited about our upcoming trip to Haiti! We will be there from October 17 – 26 and we will get to spend a lot of time with our kids. I feel like we haven’t seen them in ages, and that is the most exciting thing for both of us about this trip…We […]
I want to start off by telling you a story. One of the first trips we took to Haiti, we were in the car riding with a Haitian man who has become a good friend of ours – Christian. He is a very passionate, good, and caring man who works for Christianville. As we were […]
I want to spend a few posts just writing about what I have learned over the past year from going down to Haiti, and what we can hopefully teach some of our friends in Haiti because we have grown up in America. I love that I was born here and I love being American. […]
Many of you know our kids officially started school yesterday. Previously they were in 6 different schools spread out throughout the community they are living in. When we were in Haiti in August, Matt and I had to go to these different schools to collect records on the kids….this was a challenge! It did give […]
Tomorrow is the first big event for All Things New! We are meeting from 5:00-7:00 pm at the San Marco Preservation Hall here in Jacksonville, FL to celebrate what GOD has been doing in and through All Things New. The last few months have seemed like they have been moving way too fast! There have […]
So everyone has been telling me I need to write a blog about All Things New and the orphanage. That it shouldn’t just be coming from Matt’s perspective, which I agree with. As I sit down to write I have only 1 thing I can write about and that’s my kids. I sit here in […]
So everyone has been telling me I need to write a blog about All Things New and the orphanage. That it shouldn’t just be coming from Matt’s perspective, which I agree with. As I sit down to write I have only 1 thing I can write about and that’s my kids. I sit here in […]
Something happened recently in our adoption process that made me want to post about our adoption process again (nothing specific, just an email from our agency discussing some seminars coming up, etc.). Throughout this process, we have stayed so busy that there have been times that I almost don’t even think about our upcoming adoption, […]
Have you ever been in a Bible Study/small group when someone asked the question, “What has GOD been showing you lately?” I realized I haven’t been asked that question lately because, unfortunately, I have not really been in a small group in the last few years that I was not leading. So, I sometimes ask […]
A couple of weeks ago we had our first fundraising dinner for All Things New. One of our advisory team members, Karen Whalen, came up with this idea for people who believe in this ministry to help get our name to as many people as possible. The idea is simple. A family expresses their desire […]
I have to say, this is the question that we are asked more often than any other…”When will you guys move down to Haiti?” I’m not sure if the implication is something like, “I can’t wait until you guys are out of the country” or if people are just curious as to when we are […]
