I am going to try and capture some of what happened over the past few days as Hurricane Matthew made landfall in Haiti. The hurricane has really dominated our thoughts, the news, and our lives over the past few days and I want to give you an idea of what it was like here. First […]
As you probably know, I had my court appointment with Rosie (Audancin’s wife) today at 10:00 am and I wanted to update everyone about what went on with the judge. First of all, thank you for praying for us. I know it seems like a really simple thing and it should be cut and dry, […]
I am writing this blog with a very general topic but it will actually be very specific because I cannot truly speak for all Americans who live here in Haiti, only for myself. I do, however, believe that at least a few of these will probably resonate for every American who has spent an extended […]
You may be wondering why we haven’t given you any updates on the kids yet, and I promise they are coming. We have some great pictures of Sophie with the kids (I even got one of Sophie holding Dinna’s face and kissing her right on the lips), our first day of school was yesterday, we have […]
If you have spent any time volunteering with a nonprofit, working for an organization that had to raise funds to survive, or if you support a ministry or charity then you know that fundraising is and will always be necessary. I sometimes wonder if people see us coming and want to run the other way […]
In the previous blog I shared some of the fundraising issues that many nonprofits in America and around the world face. Some of the issues pertained to All Things New and some of them did not. Today I want to focus on our short and long term ideas for fundraising. The truth is we knew […]
In this blog, I want to talk about some of the difficulties of raising funds for a non-profit. I will follow this blog up with one that focuses more thoroughly on the specific needs and issues of All Things New, but I wanted to start with some general fundraising difficulties that most nonprofits face. These […]
If you did not get a chance to read the last 2 blogs, please click here to read the first one and here to read the second so that you can see why we are putting these statements out there. If you currently live in Haiti, have ever lived in Haiti, or even have come down on […]
If you remember from our previous post, Friday was such a long day that we had to break it up into 2 parts! If you missed “Moving In Day 2 (Part 1)” please click on the link to read it or this blog will not make any sense! I will pick up right where I […]
Most of you know that Jessica and I have been in the process of adopting a child for 3 years now. We started by trying to adopt children in Ethiopia, but because of the political climate there, we were not able to complete that adoption. We spent a lot of money trying to stick out […]
This will probably be the last post about the beginning of school, but it is a very fun one to write. If you recall from previous posts, we have 7 children who did not start school on the same day as everyone else. These are 7 of our children who are a little farther behind, […]
Starting on Monday, we will begin a new blog series about getting our kids ready for school. There are so many things that happen as we begin to get ready for our kids’ first day, and we want you to be a part of the ups and downs of figuring out how to get 29 […]
