Have you ever thought about all of the different ways that we handle tragedies? Things like Las Vegas, the night club shooting in Orlando, 9/11, Columbine, Katrina, etc. Many of us cling closer to our friends and family and realize what a blessing they are. Some of us get scared or angry and are not […]
With everything going on both here and in Haiti, I thought I would try and tie in the beauty of adoption with the increasingly common protests that are taking place in both countries where I live. If you have been following our family and All Things New over the past few years, then you know […]
The four of us returned from our first month in Haiti Sunday evening. It’s always been hard coming back but that is magnified now with 2 babies. Matt and I both still deal with some culture shock and feelings of not knowing how to comprehend these 2 different worlds we are a part of. And, […]
This is a guest post from Jessica’s Dad, Phil Atter. Phil and Jill have been down to Haiti on numerous occasions, and he wrote this blog after his most recent trip with us last month. As you read this, please be in prayer for Haiti as there are some political issues going on as well […]
As many of you know, before school starts each year, we let our older kids go into the outdoor market in Leogane to buy their school shoes for the year. They are each allowed to pick out 2 pairs of shoes (within reason) and this usually takes them about 3-4 hours to complete. This year […]
I know that the many of the people that read these blogs and keep up with All Things New have been affected in some way by Hurricane Irma. Please know that we are still praying for you and we hope that life gets back to normal soon! I am not a hunter. In fact, even […]
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, […]
