This past Sunday, since it was the second Sunday in November, was designated as Orphan Sunday in an attempt to bring awareness to the orphan crisis around the world. As you know, All Things New is a ministry dedicated to orphan care specifically in Haiti and we did not want to pass up this opportunity […]
The main point of this blog…Come to the LaGrange Fundraiser this coming Sunday night at 5:00pm at FBC LaGrange! With everything that is been going on lately (my trip to Haitian court, Hurricane Matthew, etc.) some of our fundraising initiatives while we are home were pushed to the back burner for a while. Now that […]
I think I have mentioned that when things get a little stressful down here, blogging helps me to work through the stress a little bit, so here comes another one. As you may know, we are leaving next week to spend 2 months fundraising and working on the organizational side of All Things New. Getting […]
Today I’m going to talk about some of the unique challenges of raising 12 teenagers together. In writing this blog, I am not going to give any pointers, I do not consider myself an expert by any stretch of the imagination, and the real truth is that I have never attempted to raise teenagers in […]
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 […]
When All Things New first started, we had a few specific goals that we were out to achieve. Goals are and should be something that each of us as individuals, as families, as churches, and as organizations should set for ourselves and strive to achieve. When we do not have goals and dreams we tend […]
As you probably know, we returned to Haiti this past Wednesday so we have not even been back for a week yet and things, of course, are already pretty crazy. Just over the past couple of days there are updates and blogs just waiting to be written, but I am still trying to digest everything […]
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 […]
For those of you who do not know, we came back to the states last week for a time of rest and a chance to get out of the heat for a while. I know you may be thinking that Florida is not the place to go to get out of the heat, but let […]
Yesterday in the 5th story about our kids I alluded to the fact that our kids had a big party yesterday for their soccer club teams, both the boys and girls team. Well, today is the day to tell that story because, at least for the kids, it was a really fun day! The reality […]
This is story number 5 about our kids. Hopefully you have enjoyed them so far because, honestly, they have been some of the funnest to write. It is a chance for me to reflect about how joyful life can be with our kids even in the midst of life being difficult down here. Have you […]
This is another recent event that happened with our kids here. If you missed yesterday, just click here and you can find links to all of our recent stories. If you have been following this blog long, you know that we try to keep you updated in a variety of ways. We try to vision […]
