This is the other blog I wanted to write prior to beginning our vision casting series. I have written about a similar topic before in a previous blog but this idea keeps coming up for different reasons and at different times. The question is: “Whose Kingdom Are We Building?” You could answer this question in […]
Over the next few days (unless of course Elijah comes) we are going to be sharing pictures, posting blogs, and trying to get some organizational work accomplished for All Things New. The main focus of our blogs will be to cast vision for 2017 for our organization so that everyone connected with All Things New […]
Tomorrow is coming much more quickly than we anticipated. I know that sentence does not make a lot of sense, but stay with me for a little while and you will understand what I mean. We will be leaving from Haiti at 12:51 and arriving in Jacksonville at 6:51 tomorrow evening after having been in […]
One of the most difficult things about running a ministry that both takes care of children and relies on fundraising is that it can be easy to forget that our kids are just that…Kids. They are not a project, they are not a charity, and they are not supposed to be perfect…They are supposed to […]
This is the follow-up to our most recent blog about our Christmas Party. It was an absolute blast. The party went from 2:00 to about 7:00 and it was just a great celebration. I need to apologize to anyone within a ½ mile radius of the kids’ house because it was really loud, but that […]
Today is our big Christmas Party for our kids and staff, and it is going to be our biggest Christmas party yet. We are expecting between 70-90 people, we have hired someone who is bringing speakers that are way to big for the space, and there is going to be a lot of food. Our […]
As I mentioned in the last blog post, the beginning of the year brings with it a few different tendencies. We have the tendency to look back (ESPN always did an especially good job of this the last week of the year by showing the year’s greatest plays), to look forward, and to resolve to […]
It’s interesting how the beginning of a new year is so symbolic to so many of us (including myself). We use phrases that don’t actually apply to real life like “clean slate,” “starting a new chapter,” and “let’s leave the past behind us” like any of those things are really possible. We take stock of […]
We spent our first Christmas in Haiti this year and it was a lot of fun. It was a lot different than what we are used to, but it was a lot of fun. It was also the first Christmas that Jess was away from her family and it will be my first birthday (Dec. […]
A lot of things came together recently that led me to write this blog. First of all, as I’m sure you already know, the word “joy” is thrown around a lot during the Christmas season. Think about your favorite Christmas song…it probably has the word “joy” in it at least once. If you read Luke […]
Note: Sorry this has nothing to do with Christmas, I just had to share! I wish the title of this blog was an exaggeration, but it is not. Today was truly the worse traffic day I can remember ever having, and I lived in Atlanta for 4 years. The truth is, I wanted to call […]
As you probably already know, we traveled back to Haiti this past Monday, and the day went off without a hitch. From check-in (which was the easiest it has ever been taking 6 huge bags down with us), to a 45 minute layover to picking up all 6 of our bags in Port, to the […]
