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 […]

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 […]

Not only did our college kids head back to school, but in conjunction with our “in house” kindergarten, first and second grades, we have also started a pre kindergarten aged toddlers learning center. We don’t load the little ones up with too heavy a criteria but we are encouraging them to write and draw and […]

As many of you know, we took Rachel (left) and Charity (right) to Beijing several months ago and at that time the doctors felt neither if the two babies were ready for surgery. They felt Rachel did not have enough body mass and Charity was just too young. Consequently we brought them back and worked […]

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 […]