GongYi Home of Hope

It is amazing how it seems just yesterday we were picking these little ones up, abandoned outside our gate. Sometimes they were in a cardboard box, or just laying there in some old blanket or sometimes just wrapped in rags…. and now they are off to school!This year, we have two graduating from Kindergarten to […]

Abby Joy – Xiong Miao Yin – We jokingly call her “Our Little Monk” because she was brought to us by Buddhist nuns when she was just a new born. As it turned out, Abby Joy was abandoned at a Buddhist convent far up in the GongYi mountains. Since the take over of the communist […]

We have been experiencing exceptionally warm weather for this time of the year. Each time we think our outdoor activities are finished for the season we get more warm weather. Of course we are not going to complain about it…. not at all! Winters here in Gongyi are extremely harsh so when we experience extended […]

Can I do this? – I can try! – Now what? – Don’t Roll, Don’t Roll! – I did it! Yeah! Just assuming what might have been going through Rachel’s little mind as we took snapshots of her struggling to stand up astride the ball. She has come so far since that day she was […]

BOYS WILL BE BOYS A few days ago, Michael Yang Wen Bo (11 years old), Calvin Ge Hua Wei (14 years old), Peter Ma Hong Qi (10 years old) and Joseph Li Shi Yan (13 years old) decided to play “hooky” from school in the afternoon. As he does everyday, our bus driver took them […]