PingYu Home of Hope

This new year has been probably the busiest we have ever had. Michelle and I decided to have a big New Years party for our children on January 1st since we dont get to celebrate the Chinese New Year with most of our children. Typically the Chinese people celebrate their New Year according to the [...]

After returning from the Xuzhou Home of Hope for Thanksgiving we started decorating for Christmas. Last year Joey had the honor of putting the star on top of the tree because he was the youngest, so we decided…. to let our eldest child, Hollie, place the star on the tree this year! Picture on left [...]

One of the most enjoyable things we like to do on the weekends, is to walk around our property to see what all of our children are doing. The kids have so much pressure from the schools and society to be the best in school, that even on the weekends, their teachers give them enormous [...]

Our children all started school on September 1st! Below is a picture of the children lining up to walk to school. The older girls and boys walk about 7 minutes to the public primary school. The kindergarten boys also walk to school but it takes them about 15 minutes to get to school, its not [...]

This years summer camp was held in Gongyi, where the first Home of Hope orphanage is located. Each year we try to host the summer camp at a different location, either at the Gongyi Home of Hope, the Xuzhou Home of Hope (last years camp was held there), and hopefully when we raise enough money [...]