Living in Haiti, I have seen many social media posts lately that talk about the prayers of GOD’s people changing the path of Hurricane Irma away from our small country. The suggestion of these posts is that because of all of the people in Haiti who were praying, Hurricane Irma, although it was headed directly […]
If you saw our recent Facebook post, then you know that for our service last night we had a prayer time for all of our All Things New family who are in the path of Hurricane Irma. When Hurricane Matthew came through Haiti and then over the past few days with Irma looking like it may […]
We will know more later, but as I type this blog it looks like we will escape the worst of Hurricane Irma in Gressier. If the track holds, we will probably get some rain and some wind, but you just never really know. I think if our kids were a couple of years older than […]
All of our kids start school today, and I am really looking forward to seeing what they will accomplish this year. Many of you reading this either have kids that started school this year or are kids who started school this year, and there is this energy/feeling that accompanies that first day of school. There […]
If you read the last blog, you may begin to see the struggle of planning for the future here. If you remember back to when you were a child, or even if you have kids now, you know that one of the most commonly asked questions to a kid of almost any age is, “What […]
Recently some events transpired that lead me to think about the future of our kids here at All Things New. We have a lot of work to do, especially for the older kids, to help them begin to plan for what their lives will look like as they enter into adulthood. In a later blog, […]
If you missed our last blog post and want to read about some of the crazy things that happened in the first few days we were back in Haiti (including Sophie getting her first stitches) just click here. Today I want to talk a little bit more about what things are like from my perspective. […]
The best way to get involved with All Things New is by praying! To many people this may seem counterintuitive because it can seem like our biggest needs are money, supplies, employees, etc. There are times when I get caught up in that line of thinking as well. Some of the biggest stressors related to […]
I was just sitting and thinking about our upcoming trip to Haiti with the entire family and the fear of the “unknown” that accompanies this trip. It is funny, we have lived in our house for over a year, we have made countless trips to Haiti, and we have a great support system (both Haitian […]
We had our first All Things New Team meeting yesterday! If you have been keeping up with us through either blogs or email (click either of the link to sign up to receive our communications) then you know this has been a real focus for ATN since January and this is the next step in the […]
You may recall from a recent blog that on the last night of my stay in Haiti I had some tire issues that resulted in me finding a ride from someone else at about 9:30pm. Well, this past Monday, I had some battery issues here in the states with our “new” minivan and I wanted […]
Waiting for Elijah’s birth certificate for the past month or so has lead to me think about the difference in birth certificates in Haiti and America. How many times, since you were born, have you really worried about the location of your birth certificate? There are a few times in our lives when we have […]
