http://gongyi.homeofhope.org Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:54:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Our 2008 Summer Camp went from July 14th to July 18th. This year we again combined all the children from XuZhou Home of Hope and GongYi Home of Hope along with several children from the outside who wanted to join us. On July 13th, Bob Sayer and the children from ... http://gongyi.homeofhope.org/2008/08/16/summer-camp-2008/ This is our second year to have our Home of Hope Summer Camp which is when we bring all the Home of Hope children (from both XuZhou and GongYi) and many of the employees together for one week of fun activities, corporate teaching on character and social graces. After last years ... http://gongyi.homeofhope.org/2008/07/17/pre-summer-camp-retreat/ Summer is a great time at the Home of Hope. We have our annual Youth Camp the later part of July which is when the children from our XuZhou facility come to GongYi for a week of fun, games and special teaching. Each year Ben and Michelle Godard ... http://gongyi.homeofhope.org/2008/06/22/summer-fun-2008/ 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 ... http://gongyi.homeofhope.org/2008/06/21/summer-work-2008/ It was a normal day... actually, quite nice outside... and Nathan was at his computer answering letters. He had just sat back down after taking his afternoon medications which he is still taking in follow up to his foot surgery awhile back. Suddenly this strange feeling came over him and ... http://gongyi.homeofhope.org/2008/05/15/earthquake/ 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 ... http://gongyi.homeofhope.org/2008/04/22/dawns-surgery-in-beijing/ 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 ... http://gongyi.homeofhope.org/2008/04/20/ye-yes-birthday/ 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 ... http://gongyi.homeofhope.org/2008/04/06/april-surgeries-rachel-and-dawn/ A few days ago, one of the housemothers handed us the above note. Of course even though our spoken Chinese is acceptable by now, our ability to read Chinese characters is still very limited. So, we had the note translated. It turned out the note was from Isaac Ma ... http://gongyi.homeofhope.org/2008/03/12/isaac-tugs-on-our-heartstrings/ "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 ... http://gongyi.homeofhope.org/2008/02/25/eight-years-and-going-stronger/