PingYu Home of Hope

A New Year to Love and Celebrate! 爱的分享与庆祝新的一年 Michelle and I celebrated our 16th wedding anniversary and 18 years being together! We also celebrated 9 years serving in China, 6 of which we have been here at the Pingyu Home of Hope! 笑笑和我庆祝了我们的16周年结婚纪念日及我们在一起的18年的时光！ 我们也同样庆祝了一起在中国服侍的九年时间，其中有六年在平舆希望之家！ Michelle and I serve the left behind children, which means most […]

We had a fantastic Christmas this year. We had 85 people in all at our Christmas party, which included our big Home of Hope family and we were blessed to have 3 families come and celebrate with us this year. We had Chinese, American, Australian Russian and British people all under one roof celebrating Christmas. […]

Davey and Zoey putting on their ornament. Michelle and I with Patch putting on their ornament. Abby needed an extra boost to put her ornament higher than the boys and Jaxin, our eldest son, putting on his ornament. Sammy putting up with Michelle’s excitement! Eddy and Eli, our middle son, putting on their ornament. Gabe […]

Michelle and I are very active and try to stay as healthy as possible. We love exercising with the kids too. We are either going for runs, lifting weights, doing work out videos or just playing different games with the kids. Recently, one volunteer came and taught us a new way to play Dodge Ball […]

Our children are getting ready to go back to school! Below are several pictures of which child is in which grade. One thing that we get hit with each year is education costs. Primary and Middle School education is supposed to be free in China, but last year we spent $2500.00 on both food for […]