Many of you know that we returned home from Haiti on July 7, and we have been very busy since coming home. I hope you enjoyed the old blog posts we put up (it was fun to read through all that GOD is doing), but now we are going to get back on the ball […]
Sorry it has been so long since we have posted. I (Matt) have been working on a website for Christianville the last week or so and that has taken a lot of time, but we wanted to put up a post so that you could see how different life is here than other places. You […]
I was reminded today what it truly means to make a sacrifice. As we have sold our house, much of our possessions, given up our jobs, and prepared to move to Haiti full time, these things have felt like sacrifices. Many of these things have been hard for me. As Matt and I sat down […]
Over the past couple of weeks I have been contemplating the idea of helplessness in many different aspects. There is such a negative connotation behind this word, and with good reason. Since we’ve been in Haiti, here are some ways we have felt helpless: When it rains, it is a big struggle to drive to […]
Jess and I recently sold and moved out of our home a few days before this current trip to Haiti. We lived there for almost 9 years and we made some incredible memories in that house. It is hard for me to communicate emotions, but I can very specifically remember a few things that were […]
As many of you know, All Things New recently participated in One Spark here in Jacksonville last week and it was a huge success for our organization. We want to thank each of you who came out to volunteer, vote, or donate to our cause. Most of you saw our repeated communications on social media, […]
Going in to today I had a feeling it was gonna be a crazy one. I decided I would take notes on it and try to remember as much as I could at the end of it. Then Matt thought it would be fun for each of us to write it from our own perspective. […]
What is humility? Why is it important? How do I attain something that seems so difficult? It’s funny that the answer to each of these questions is the same and is found in the person of Jesus Christ. He is humility, it is important because we follow Christ and He tells us it is important, […]
There are so many people to thank for their help in our silent auction this past Saturday evening. As I mentioned in a previous blog, Jess and I did not do a lot leading up to the event. In fact, we were actually in Haiti until about 2 weeks before the auction took place so […]
I wanted to put up another quick post of some things I was thinking about today. I realized, since coming back to the states, how convenient certain things are that will be a little difficult to not have right at our fingertips. I thought I would put a few here in the blog, and if […]
Jess and I arrived back in Jacksonville this past Tuesday, and it has been both really good and really difficult at the same time. When we arrived home, we saw a “For Sale” sign in our yard, and it was surreal to think that we are trying to sell our house. But then we took […]
I have experienced something the past few weeks that I have just been able to put my finger on. I have probably experienced it before, but living here for the past month I think it has become very evident to me. I have become so aware of intense physical needs among people that live around […]
