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		<title>2nd Child Search</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the beginning of June Michelle, David (our translator), a government leader and I (Ben) went on our 2nd child search.  Our intentions were to bring in 5 girls and 2 boys so that we would have 8 girls and 8 boys.  Before the search we prayed that God would guide us to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pingyu.homeofhope.org/2010/07/01/2nd-child-search-2/</link>
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		<title>Giving HOPE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We wanted to thank you for you prayers for Anna (WangYan), Joey (Bao Gui) and Jake (Guo Bao) (Below Left to Right).
As we spoke on our earlier post, we went for a child search in June and met these three children. After seeing their troubled home, we realized that they must immediately come live at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pingyu.homeofhope.org/2010/06/16/giving-hope/</link>
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		<title>2nd Child Search Surprise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past month we went on our 2nd child search.  We were planning on bringing in 2 boys and 4 girls to finish filling up the 2 bedrooms that we are currently using.
On our last day of our child search we pretty much had figured out which children we were wanting to bring in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pingyu.homeofhope.org/2010/06/06/2nd-child-search-surprise/</link>
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		<title>MAY DAYS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SUMMER SHOE&#8217;S
Summer has arrived and so it was time to go get the children summer shoes.  We found a local store that gives us a deal on shoes to help out the orphans in PingYu.
(left to right) Gene, Emma, Zoey, Philip, Jaxin, Tyler, Noah, Mark , Eli, Graham, Gabe and behind is Sarah
&#8230;the only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pingyu.homeofhope.org/2010/05/14/2305/</link>
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		<title>One Busy Weekend!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Like you might have read in past posts, most of our children are behind the other children in school because the schools in the villages are not as good as the city schools.  We have also mentioned before how hard and strenuous education is pushed on the children here, so during the weekends [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pingyu.homeofhope.org/2010/04/21/one-busy-weekend/</link>
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		<title>School first, then play!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since the beginning of the school semester, our children have had a little bit of a harder time in school because the schools in the villages are not as advanced as the schools in the city.  For example, when our 3 first grade children (Graham, Sarah and Mark picture below) started school in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pingyu.homeofhope.org/2010/04/07/school-first-then-play/</link>
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		<title>Time to Play</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As you might know, we operate solely through donations from people all around the world, and unfortunately we get zero financial help from the Chinese government.  We truly can not thank you enough for all of your prayers and financial support, without your help we could not be here spreading the love, hope and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pingyu.homeofhope.org/2010/03/24/time-to-play/</link>
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		<title>First Day of School!!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Soon after the children arrived we brought them to a near by public grade school to enroll them for the last semester of the year.  Unfortunately most of the children are a little behind the other students because here in the city they have better teachers than in the villages so they are able [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pingyu.homeofhope.org/2010/03/12/first-day-of-school/</link>
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		<title>The Arrival of our Children!!!!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On March 1st we were able to bring all of the children into the PingYu Home of hope.  After our delay of finding housemothers who WANTED to work here, we were very excited to call the Civil Affairs to tell them that we were ready for the children to arrive!

The children started arriving early [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pingyu.homeofhope.org/2010/03/05/the-arrival-of-our-children/</link>
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		<title>Last minute work before the children arrive!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When we started trying to find different contractors to do the many different kinds of work that needed to be done, we realized that our building funding was at the half way mark and that we needed to decide what construction needed to be completed before the children move in with us and what construction [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pingyu.homeofhope.org/2010/02/17/last-minute-work-before-the-children-arrive/</link>
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