Archive for 'Special Activities'
Summer Fun
GongYi Home of Home Summer Outing: Awhile back, Ye Ye (Nathan) picked up an inflatable raft with a transom on the back for mounting a small outboard engine. After some diligent searching we found a 15 HP Yamaha and picked it up for a very good price. The two (raft and engine) work fine together […]
Posted: July 19th, 2016 under China Tidbits, Special Activities, Uncategorized.
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Bridge Maintenance
As soon as Children’s Day was over, everyone sort of hit the ground running. The children already knew some of the projects we have slated for this summer and were actually looking forward to the work as this is when they can earn some extra spending money. We generally define which type of work comes […]
Posted: July 19th, 2014 under Building, Expanding, Our Children, Special Activities, The Beginning, Uncategorized.
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Back to School
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 […]
Posted: September 6th, 2012 under Abandoned Babies, China Tidbits, Education, New Arrivals, Special Activities, Surgeries, Uncategorized.
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Youth Camp 2012 – A great four days!
The Home of Hope Youth Camp, 2012 is over. At 5:30 this morning we said farewell to Bob and Cindy Sayer and the XuZhou children and at 7:00 AM we watched as the huge bus with the PingYu children (along with Ben And Michelle Godard and their family) made the tight turn to get on […]
Posted: July 31st, 2012 under Abandoned Babies, Our Children, Special Activities, Uncategorized, Visitors.
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HOH Christmas – 2011
Many exciting things happened this year as we approached Christmas! A Church group in California provided the funds to give each child at the Home of Hope a new pair of “Long Jons” and a pair of warm, winter shoes. There was even enough left over to get new coats for some of the children […]
Posted: December 26th, 2011 under Building, Expanding, Christmas, Home of Hope Staff, Our Children, Special Activities, Uncategorized.
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