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, or click here for Part 3 so that this will make sense. As I mentioned in the previous post, a plan was forming. […]
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 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 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 […]
There are a lot of things in Haiti that we will get to experience for the first time. We have experienced weddings, graduations, school meetings, immigration, etc. and we will continue to experience new things the longer we live here. Today I want to tell you about our most recent experience, a funeral. I want […]
I was thinking the other day about how blessed we are with our family. When you start something like All Things New, it is extremely important to have a support system behind you and that support system should start with your family. We have been blessed to have some wonderful churches support us, incredible sponsors […]
I am writing this as I sit in my living room in Haiti watching 12 kids (our older kids, ages 12-17) watch a movie on our new 22 inch television. There are 2 children sitting together in a small loveseat, 6 kids crowded onto a sofa, 3 kids sitting on the tile floor, and 1 […]
Since January of this past year, Matt and I have been taking Creole lessons with Mackenson. This is not the Mackenson at the orphanage. It is a very common name here. This is the son of Julihomme who works for Christianville. Mackenson just finished up his last year of High School at the age of […]
Over the past year during our time in Haiti, we have identified several needs for the orphanage and are now trying to meet them. One of the biggest has been a person to help with the laundry. In case you are not aware, laundry is done by hand in Haiti, hung to dry, then ironed […]
I have learned something about visitors in Haiti. This is a generality and not a rule, but it seems to hold up most of the time. Here is the principle…The younger you are and the less time you have spent in Haiti, the more you know about what will fix the country. The older you are […]
As most of you know, we got back to Haiti this past Monday, and it truly feels like we have been here for at least a month. It has been very hectic trying to adjust back to life here and get things accomplished at the same time. Some of the things we have been dealing […]
I taught kindergarten in the public school system in Jacksonville, Florida for 8 years. Although it was a challenging job and I went to bed most nights by 9:00pm, I absolutely loved it. During these 8 years, I took my first trip down to Haiti in which I met the kids. That trip turned into […]
