GongYi Home of Hope

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 […]

We have several back to back surgeries scheduled for this Spring with Rachel Xiong Xin‘s (above) being the first (Scheduled for the middle of March) followed by Dawn and then Charity. However, and as is often the case things did not work out as planned. We had already finished all the preliminary tests for Rachel […]

After long preparation, we were into the last few hours of frenzied activity, making the final arrangements for the Home of Hope Christmas program. Most everything was ready and arranged. When planning Christmas for more than sixty children, the staff, family and friends and other visitors, and also considering both a large meal and a […]

He’s Home! – November 26, 2007 We brought Aaron Xiong Wei home yesterday! What an exciting time! Here are two more pictures to close out this particular update on Aaron‘s treatment for a “clubbed” right foot! Please scroll down to see how Aaron’s foot looked before his two months of treatment in Beijing. We picked […]

Well it was time for our babies to have their first vaccinations. This is always heart wrenching for us since they always cry and cry… and the strange thing is they get over it so much faster than we do. Above is Daniel Xiong Qi who was abandoned outside our gate not long ago. You […]