GongYi Home of Hope

Ever since the Home of Hope Orphanage opened in February 2000, we have needed and have been looking for sponsors for our children. A short time after we opened, Joe and Darlene (above with Lily in the center) began to sponsor Lily Zhang Lin Qing and have been doing so ever since. Joe and Darlene […]

Most of the pictures in this update are from our April 2009 collection. We will cover several activities but mostly we hope you celebrate the onset of Spring with us! After a long, cold and hard winter it is really nice to shed the two or three layers of “long jons”, get out the old […]

Nathan knew something was in the air but wasn’t sure what and then the children came over and told him it was time for his birthday party. The above picture was the gift the children had arranged for their Ye Ye and even though they had made the picture that day at around lunch time […]

Well Sam turned twenty this year and he bought the cake and gave his own party for all the other children and everyone really enjoyed it! In the picture at the left and staying with a long term tradition here at the Home of Hope, Sam gave a speech. The children give their speech in […]

It was about 7:00 PM Saturday night when some of the children came to our door and said they wanted Yie Yie (Nathan) to come to the dining room. We had a good idea of what was going on (it was Nathan’s birthday) but we went over pretending we had no idea what was happening. […]