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 […]
After updating everyone on how we got here, I thought it would be fun to share about what our first night here was like. The week leading up to moving the kids in, I kept a constant list of things we would need to go over with them when they moved in. We were trying […]
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: […]
So we had a place we could now feed the kids and still get them some tutoring each day after school. Because we now knew Audancin was capable of anything, we were not comfortable bringing the kids into Hope Rising without some kind of consent from parents or family members. Our girl’s cousin immediately got […]
So the day after the meeting with our girl’s family, we went back up to the orphanage like normal. Everyday for the last year we have gone up at 5:45am, done breakfast with the kids, then dropped them off at school. Many of the kids were still very standoffish toward us. We came home, sat […]
So after 3 long days of hiding our girl we were told her cousin had finally arrived. I don’t think Matt mentioned but we tried to schedule this meeting about 3 other times over the course of the last few days. Audancin repeatedly would not show up for the meetings (and we had Pastor Herold […]
