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 […]
The last few weeks down in Haiti have been some of our most difficult yet for a lot of reasons. In the midst of this, there have been quite a few potential decisions that have come up and that we have been praying through as we seek after GOD’s guidance. During this same time I […]
Things almost never go how you want them to. Please do not read this blog and think I am complaining about anything. I know how blessed we are and I know that we have more than most people in the world. I am just making a general observation based on what tends to happen in […]
I wanted to take some time to talk about our sponsorship program. We started this program in March 2012 even before All Things New existed as a way for our children to be taken care of. Our initial sponsorship program consisted primarily of members of RiverTown Church, and it did not take us long to […]
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 […]
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 […]
I have never been in Haiti for Christmas, but I think about it a lot while we are here. I think about what our kids are probably doing compared to what we are doing. I think about what our American friends are doing in Haiti while we are here. I also think about our Haitian […]
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 need to apologize for not posting for a while. Jess and I just recently returned from Haiti and decided to take a few days for ourselves when we first got here. We realized that for the past month in Haiti, we did not take a day off of work, and we needed a little […]
I have been reading through the Gospels for a little over a year now and writing down all of my thoughts and what I learn as I read them. Last night, I came to John 13 where Jesus is washing the Disciples’ feet. I, like many of you, have read or heard about this particular […]
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 […]
