While we were in America for the month of July we had an incredible team of people here who looked after our children and kept them safe. Matt and Cara (along with their children Kaylea, Dean, and Joel) helped us out immensely as they contacted us whenever there was an issue, had our kids participate […]
We arrived back in Haiti yesterday, and we were so excited to pull into Hope Rising and see our kids after a month of being away. I will tell you, we were not disappointed by our kids’ reaction. They were just as thrilled as we were to see our truck pull in and we could […]
Over the past few months, Jess and I have been reading through the Bible together with a chronological reading plan. It has been really good, and we have just gotten to 2 Samuel and the story of David. At this point we have read about people who have had some pretty crazy things happen to them like […]
I don’t know how many of you remember a blog that I posted a while ago about a dental experience I had here in Haiti a few months ago, but if you missed it, click here to read about it. That experience was much different than others I have had in the states, and today […]
There are 2 questions that I have been asked more often in the past 4 weeks than I could attempt to count. The question that I am asked the most is, “Do you have a job for me/my wife/my sister/my friend?” I will write a blog about that question soon, but the other question that […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, or click here for Part 5 so that the story will make sense. We now had a place […]
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 […]
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 or click here for Part 2 so that this will make sense. After the meeting, we knew we needed to do something, but we were […]
Before I start the blog, please click here if you have not read part 1 so that you can catch up. So our girl’s cousin and her husband came to the meeting along with a local pastor named Pastor Lamentation that we had only met once. A side story is that this is the pastor […]
