I wanted to share about a couple of fundraisers we had recently that meant a lot to All Things New and specifically I want to share about 2 people who have a specific skill and passion that they used to help our orphanage. I hope that I have not forgotten anyone or left anyone else […]
I came across this quote not too long ago on giving and how it should affect us. Read it and let me know what you think. I will give some thoughts on it as well after posting the quote here: “I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am […]
This year is going to be very different for us during Christmas for a bunch of reasons. First of all, it will be Jessica’s and my first year spending Christmas away from our American families and with our Haitian family. It will be Sophie’s 2nd Christmas, but I don’t think her first one really counted […]
All of us, at one time or another, have tried to make others feel guilty about something in order to change their behavior in some way. It happens all of the time from things such as telling your husband, “I guess I will take the trash out” to something like a child telling their parents […]
You may have seen over the past 2 blogs that I have hinted at a major announcement that was coming soon, and today is announcement day… The Bush family will be adding a baby boy due in February! I want to tell you the story (click here to read more about our journey), but I […]
One of the things that a lot of people ask us is how All Things New operates while we are in America. This is a very valid question especially since so many things have kept us stateside recently. We will always have fundraising responsibilities and because of that we will always spend some time in […]
This past Sunday, since it was the second Sunday in November, was designated as Orphan Sunday in an attempt to bring awareness to the orphan crisis around the world. As you know, All Things New is a ministry dedicated to orphan care specifically in Haiti and we did not want to pass up this opportunity […]
Did you know that 33% of Americans consider adoption but less than 2% actually adopt? What a crazy statistic, that there are that many people here who get to the point of considering adoption but so few people follow through. There are many barriers to adoption including fear, a “stigma” associated with adoption, your age, […]
There are a few blogs that we have been thinking about writing over the past few weeks, but I wanted to take some time today to focus on the month of November in the world of adoption and orphan care. In 1984 President Reagan proclaimed one week in November National Adoption week, President Clinton extended […]
I actually had a completely different blog written and ready to post about Adoption Awareness and then realized what a huge day today is for America. The right to vote is so important to our nation and to us as individuals to be able to voice our opinion on who our leaders will be. There […]
I will be preaching in an American church for the first time in a quite a while on November 13 (which is also Orphan Sunday) and I wanted to share some thoughts that I have been having about this sermon. I am not sure if this is the direction I will go because I have […]
First of all, we just had an amazing couple of days of fundraising in LaGrange and we will be updating you and writing a blog about that soon. We have wonderful supporters in LaGrange and it was great getting to see everyone and updating everyone on what has been going on at All Things New […]
