PingYu Home of Hope

This year was the first time we were able to celebrate Easter. Last year we had only been open for one month and were too busy trying to get used to one another to celebrate anything. We want to thank you for your continued support for our children; you are truly saving lives.
Back row left to right: Zoey, Emma, Debbie, Sarah, Hollie, Ellie, and Anna. Middle row left to right:Mark,Graham, Lester, Gabe, Eddy, Philip, Jaxin (our eldest son), and Eli (our middle son). Front row left to right: Tyler (our youngest son), Noah, Thomas, Gene, Danny, Chris, Joey, and Jake.

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The night before Easter, Michelle, our 3 boys and I (Ben) stayed up late and got all the baskets ready. Our boys were so happy to be involved and love helping whenever they get the chance.

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We started Easter morning off with doing our Easter basket hunt. Each basket had 9 plastic eggs filled with candy, one hard boiled egg that the kindergarten boys were able to color and dye (see pictures below), a puzzle that they could color and put together, a pencil and 1 yuan ($0.15) for the children to buy a small snack at school.
Our kindergarten aged boys with their baskets (left to right) Joey, Jake, Noah, Thomas, Danny, Gene, Chris

Debbie (left) Eddy (right). Eddy and Debbie are twins.

Gabe (left) and Sarah (right)

Ellie (left) and Mark (right)

Philip (left) and Hollie(right)

Anna (left) and Graham (right)

Lester (left) and Emma (right)

Wendy (left) and Zoey (right)

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While the older children were in school, we brought our kindergarten aged boys into our house to color and dye some eggs.
Noah (left) and Danny (right) were quite surprised to put a brown egg into the cup and have it be a different color when he pulled it out. White eggs are too expensive to use and are meant as a gift for when a child is born.

Jake (left) and Chris(right) coloring eggs.

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After the morning basket hunt and activities, Michelle made the children pizza; the first time she made pizza for the children they were very grateful for the pizza but did not like the cheese and scraped it off; so this time she made cheeseless pizza; without cheese is it really a pizza?
Michelle made a pizza for our kindergarten room (pictured above), our girls room and our older boys room. They choose what they wanted on it, and again their toppings are nothing like the topping we are used to in the States. We had corn, potatoes, tomatoes, pineapples, fried apples, and pork slices, this was their choosing not ours.

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After lunch Michelle took our girls out to take a few pictures, anything to dress up our girls:)

Once they got started taking pictures they wanted to take them everywhere……..

……..and with everyone!

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Thank you so much for supporting our children and for making an impact on lives that were considered not worth while. With your help all of our children have the opportunity for greatness! Bless you and we hope you all had a great Easter.

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We do want to make special note that we are lifting all of you up who are suffering or know someone who is suffering from all the tornadoes and storms in the States. Be strong and courageous for God will be with you!