We thought it would be good for everyone to get the story from both Matt and my perspective. I will pick up at the same point Matt did yesterday. We arrived back to Haiti on March 13 after a few weeks in the states. March 14 started 3 weeks of back-to-back American teams coming down […]
We are going to take the next few days to update everyone about how we haved ended up moving our children to a new place, the Hope Rising Campus. The past 2 weeks have been crazy (even for Haiti), but we are now in a new place where our kids are safe. There are still a […]
A few weeks ago Jess and I started a chronological reading plan where we will finish the Bible in one year, and that plan has led us to the book of Job. Job can either be one of the simplest books of the Bible (because of its narrow focus) or one of the more difficult […]
It has been a couple of weeks since our last blog, but we have had two wonderful teams come down the past 2 weeks and we have been really busy hanging out with them and working with them as they shared the love of Christ down here in Haiti. We have another team coming this […]
I (Matt) wanted to share with you an interesting experience I had yesterday. I need to preface this post with the fact that recently I had a crown fall out and I was having some pain in 2 of my teeth for the past few weeks. So, I decided to set an appointment at the […]
Today’s blog post is simply a description of a normal day for us at All Things New. I want to give you a little bit of insight into what we do on a day-to-day basis, and while no 2 days look the same, you can at least get an idea of some of the things […]
While the title might speak for itself, we wanted to update everyone on some awesome news…We received each of our kids’ report cards for the first half of the year and they are almost all passing! This is an incredible answer to prayer, and those of you who have been following us for a while […]
I am writing this from Haiti rather than from America like I initially thought. We are trying to catch back up on blogging after taking almost a full month break in December (which was worth it) as we tried to spend time with family, catch up with friends, and do some fundraising around the end […]
10. The Kids – Imagine leaving your kids in another country for a month at a time. Lack of Consumerism – I love that we can just be here. We don’t feel the need to rush to the store and buy things. We are constantly bombarded with advertisements and discussions about the next biggest […]
I have to admit, it was great being home for Thanksgiving! I could try to spin it a lot of different ways, but the main thing is that we got to be with family, we had an enormous amount of food, and it just felt right to be here in the states. I definitely thought […]
I am going to try and describe how I (Matt) feel coming home from Haiti, but it is difficult to really explain. There are so many different things that run through your mind as you try to readjust to your “home” if I can really call it that anymore. There is the sadness of leaving […]
I was listening to a sermon recently that focused on the idea of worldwide poverty, and I wanted to talk about what poverty looks like. It is so hard to describe poverty if you have never seen it firsthand, if you have never smelled it, or have never known people who lived in it. It […]
