GongYi Home of Hope

Growing up in the South Central part of Texas, our most familiar and fondest memories of a White Christmas are those expressed by Bing Crosby. So it was really exciting to wake up on the 24th of December and find everything hiding under a soft and gentle covering of powdery snow. We [...]

On Christmas day, December 25, 2007, we received a call from the Gongyi Welfare Bureau and they asked us if we would be willing to help a little six year old girl who’s mother had developed mental illness and who’s father had abandoned the family.
We answered in the positive although we explained that normal procedures [...]

Nathan was getting showered and ready to go to the hospital to have an injection of some type in his right heel to relieve some of the pain from a bone chip embedded in the tendon when the security guard called on the radio informing him a new baby had just shown up at the [...]

On December 11th at lunch time, we got all the children and staff together (those children who came home for lunch) and took our annual Christmas picture. Twenty Two of the children were not here… our High School and College students and maybe it was a good thing in that we had a pretty [...]

A little over a year ago we started a personal collection of photographs we have titled the “Faces of China.” From time to time we will include some of those pictures here just to let you get a feel for the people and customs of China.
Be sure to check back to this particular page from [...]