A couple of days ago I booked a flight to head back down to Haiti for a week starting on Monday May 22. It is funny, I will be flying up to JFK and getting to Haiti at 1:50 that afternoon for more than $100 cheaper than I could have gone through Fort Lauderdale and […]
If you live in the Southeastern United States, and specifically South Georgia or North Florida, then you have probably seen a lot about the huge 140,000-acre fire that has been tearing through the area. Conditions are dry and local agencies are on high alert for the possibility of other forest fires in the area. One […]
I know that we have all heard the saying, “If I had known then what I know now” and we have probably used it in one way or another. I heard someone using that scenario the other day on a talk radio show I was listening to while driving to meet someone who was donating […]
Many of you receive our email communications and have seen the new Team structure that we are in the process of beginning at All Things New. In fact, we have had more feedback and responses from these emails than any other email we have sent out and we greatly appreciate your desire to help us moving […]
We had another board meeting yesterday where we focused on getting our new TEAM structure and we are now ready to share with you the descriptions of these teams to know if they are a fit for your skill set. Our goal is that this new TEAM structure will be a huge leap forward for […]
Tuesday morning of this past week I had a meeting with Phil Atter, Bob Kleuppel, and Jim Selzer. Phil, as you probably know, is my Father-in-law and has been very involved with All Things New since the beginning. Bob is a friend of ours that we met through Christ’s Church and he is beginning the […]
If you read our last blog (click here to read it if you missed it) then you know that the LaGrange team that came down from First Baptist spent their time in Haiti doing 2 things that we had never done with teams before: Prayer Walking and Pampering Our House Moms. We were curious to […]
Starting last Saturday (April 1), All Things New had the pleasure of having 2 different teams from LaGrange, GA come down to help out. The team from Clearview Chapel came down with 9 people from Saturday to Wednesday and the team from First Baptist Church came down with 24 people from Monday to the following Saturday. […]
The first thing to know about our newest little girl is that her name is actually Samara. She lived with us when we first started the orphanage and we asked the adults her name and they told us Somala and then spelled it that way as well. So for the first 2 years we knew […]
I am sure I have written about this before, but April Fools Day in Haiti is one of the funniest days of the year! Before I get into it, let me bring your attention to 2 things that are coming up: Our Annual Jacksonville Fundraiser is tonight at 7:00 at Christ’s Church. Please pray for […]
As you probably already know, I (Matt) have been back in Haiti since Monday afternoon and it has already been a whirlwind trip. After not being here for the past 2 months, right now is the first time since arriving that I have had a chance to even sit down and think about what has […]
I will be leaving to head back down to Haiti tomorrow after being here in the states for a little over 2 months and it is with very mixed emotions that I find myself writing this blog. I could go into how much I am looking forward to seeing our kids or how difficult it […]
The first thing to know about our newest little girl is that her name is actually Samara. She lived with us when we first started the orphanage and we asked the adults her name and they told us Somala and then spelled it that way as well. So for the first 2 years we knew […]
I am sure I have written about this before, but April Fools Day in Haiti is one of the funniest days of the year! Before I get into it, let me bring your attention to 2 things that are coming up: Our Annual Jacksonville Fundraiser is tonight at 7:00 at Christ’s Church. Please pray for […]
