GongYi Home of Hope

Nathan was getting showered and ready to go to the hospital to have an injection of some type in his right heel to relieve some of the pain from a bone chip embedded in the tendon when the security guard called on the radio informing him a new baby had just shown up at the gate.

As it turned out, an elderly lady (the one who brought the baby) who lives in LuoYang (a city about two hours away from Gongyi) was coming to visit a relative in Gongyi. As she was walking down an old dirt road a young girl about seventeen years of age approached her and asked her if she would be kind enough to hold her baby while she went into the public restroom.

The elderly lady, wanting to help, agreed. She waited and waited and the young lady never returned… Of course the elderly lady didn’t know what to do so she took the baby to her relatives house and for two days they talked and discussed about what to do with this baby.

Finally someone mentioned the Home of Hope to them so the elderly lady and her younger relative brought the baby to our gate. Of course never being involved in something like this they were very nervous and afraid they would be charged with kidnapping.

Both of the ladies got real nervous when we told them we needed to call the police and fill out an ‘abandoned baby’ report but they agreed to do it.

The police came, took their statement and to the obvious relief of the two ladies they were told they could go.

We never know if the stories we are told are true or not and some times we are quite skeptical. However, having babies like this brought to us under either pretense… truth or fabrication.. is much better than having the baby just left on the side of the road somewhere which we have seen far too many times. In fact that is how our first abandoned baby came to us… Moses Xiong En was found on the side of the road and brought to us by the police back in October of 2000.

We have given his little one the name of Xiong Qian which means ‘Beautiful Hope”… so her full name will be Hope Xiong Qian. The doctors tell us she is about four months old and may have a slight problem with her right side… but none of the tests including CT scans and such showed up any real problems.

We hope you come back from time to time to follow the growth of this new life at the Home of Hope.

If you would like to help with the costs of taking care of Hope Xiong Qian you can do so by going to our donations page.

Thank you and we solicit your prayers for little Hope!

Blessings!

A sad footnote to the story of Hope Xiong Qian. As it developed little Hope had Spinal Bifeda and we were not able to afford her long term assistance. She went to heaven a short time after this article was written. We know she is far better off now than she was when she arrived.

It always hurts us deeply when these things happen. Everyone at the Home of Hope misses her.