The main point of this blog…Come to the LaGrange Fundraiser this coming Sunday night at 5:00pm at FBC LaGrange! With everything that is been going on lately (my trip to Haitian court, Hurricane Matthew, etc.) some of our fundraising initiatives while we are home were pushed to the back burner for a while. Now that […]
Over the past week or so I have talked about how blessed we were through the devastation of Hurricane Matthew, and we (my family, our kids, and All Things New) absolutely were blessed. The problem is that there are whole cities in Haiti where people who were struggling to feed their families and send their […]
I want to write a follow-up blog to the one I wrote about emergency aid and disaster relief. Emergency aid is absolutely necessary and it is the first step, but the process to go from emergency aid to relief to rebuilding to normalcy is a long and difficult road. I also want to clarify some […]
Just so you know, there will still be at least 2 more blogs about the hurricane and its affect on this nation. The truth is that it was one of those defining events and we here on the ground are still trying to process everything that happened. I have mentioned before that blogging actually helps […]
You already know there is a true humanitarian crisis in Haiti the likes of which we have not seen here since the 2010 earthquake. At least 800 people have died and over 80% of homes have been destroyed in the affected areas including Jeremie, Les Cayes, and places in between. When things like this happen, […]
We made it through the storm on Tuesday and I still had not really left the house. I tried to go down to the kids’ house at one point right after the winds subsided but a tree was blocking the road and when I got out to walk around it we had about 2-3 feet […]
This is another call to prayer as Hurricane Matthew prepares to bring its destruction to the east coast of Florida including Jacksonville. As you probably know, I sent Jess and Sophie home prior to the storm making landfall in Haiti to make sure Sophie was safe but now Matthew will be in Jacksonville (where our […]
I woke up Tuesday morning at around 5:00 for a few different reasons. Of course I was nervous about the upcoming weather but I also had 35 other people (some of whom were strangers to me) staying with me and our kids were right outside our door. It almost seems like their number one goal, […]
After Jess and Sophie left for the states on Sunday, it was time to prepare for Hurricane Matthew. Beginning Sunday, I tried to convince our employees that a huge category 4 hurricane was about to hit Haiti and that it was very important that they find shelter and a place to stay. I told each […]
The first in a series of fairly difficult decisions was the decision to have Jess and Sophie go back to the states without me. I say this was difficult, but the difficulty was not in knowing that the right decision was to send them home. The difficulty was not having them with me. On top […]
I am going to try and capture some of what happened over the past few days as Hurricane Matthew made landfall in Haiti. The hurricane has really dominated our thoughts, the news, and our lives over the past few days and I want to give you an idea of what it was like here. First […]
This is more of a call for prayer than a blog post, but I know these blogs get to more people than other forms of communication. Also, if you have a chance, please share it with other people so that they can be praying for us here in Haiti. If you have not yet heard, […]
