GongYi Home of Hope

Each summer we give our older children an option to work at the Home of Hope for a fair wage. We do this for several reasons including their learning new skills, learning about personal finance…. learning to manage their own money, developing a strong work ethic (Ye Ye is a hard task master) and to […]

We left on Monday morning, April 14th to take Dawn and one House Mother to Beijing for Dawn’s surgery. We arrived at the hospital a little after four in the afternoon and got them all settled in. The doctor told us the surgery would be the next day at 5:00 PM and it took place […]

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 […]

“When we got to the house all eleven children had been scrubbed and dressed in their new clothes. The house mothers had taken them out Saturday and gotten them all haircuts and new shoes. They looked so happy and shiny and clean; Shannie was moved to tears at the sight of them, and I came […]

After having four and a half consecutive days of snow, we thought we were finished with inclement weather for awhile… but…. Sunday the 27th brought unexpected blizzard conditions. This was the first time in a long time we had enough snow to make a difference while at the same time having the children home from […]