Meeting Children at Xiamen Orphanage
What an amazing day! We are so blessed to have a one to one partnership with Xiamen. The director and entire staff care deeply for the children. Our team got an early start and we were able to see 73 children. We were able to play with the children, learn a little about their personality […]
This Week in China
After airline challenges and delays, our team has arrived in China. While AGCI President Hollen Frazier participates in a training event for orphanage directors, the rest of our group had a chance to explore and experience the culture of China. VP of Adoption Jodi Miyama updates us on their day… After about 5 hours of […]
Forever Family: Amazing Lybbi
Lybbi was born with a severe heart disease. At 2 months old she was abandoned in front of a hospital in Xiamen, China. Her fragile condition required constant care, leaving her connected to an oxygen supply. While Lybbi has had multiple surgeries and remains critically ill, she is still a survivor. AGCI knew that the […]
Busy Week at Xiamen
It has been a very busy, but fruitful week so far in Xiamen! Saturday originally I was hoping to volunteer in the special care unit, but due to staffing it did not work out for me to be able to do this so I took the day to rest and get caught up on work […]
Woo-Hoo from China!
This morning I woke up to an email that made me almost wake up my neighbors as I shouted for joy, woohoo! A family in our China program is moving forward with the adoption of six year old Julian from Xiamen! He just had a corrective heart surgery done in Shanghai and is doing great. […]
Examining Children at Xiamen
This morning I met the doctor from the USA for breakfast who I have not seen since March of this year and got caught up on how she is doing and discussed our day at Xiamen. We walked the about one block walk over to the orphanage together. We set the examination room up in […]
Visiting Children in Longyan
This morning we headed out to Longyan to see the foster care kids out there. It is about a 2-3 hour drive to the Longyan orphanage where we would meet the Xiamen foster care kids. To thank the Longyan orphanage for hosting us Rocky and I stopped at a market to buy tea and chocolate […]
Meeting the Children
This morning I met Rocky at 7:30 for breakfast. It was so good to see him and have a nice Chinese traditional breakfast! I had to smile when I saw one of the menu items was fungus soup. Always an adventure! 🙂 It was nice to get caught up with Rocky since I have not seen him […]
Meeting the Children at Xiamen
Today I received the verse of the day from Crosswalk, and was blown away that it was Ephesians 3:16-21. The verse that God put in my heart in July, and then two separate families emailed to me before I left for China, unbeknownst to them that it was already one that I had been focusing […]
Sunday in Xiamen
Let all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; And let those who love Your salvation say continually, “Let God be magnified.”-Psalm 70:4 I am excited to say that my luggage arrived today, yay! I had to wear the same clothes for a few days so God stretched me in that, haha! It’s […]
The Trip to Xiamen
Thank you to all of you or your special email notes of encouragement and prayers before I left; you are so kind! I could not sleep Thursday night out of pure excitement, so I was up Friday morning around 4am, and finished packing. At 7am I kissed my girls goodbye and left them with my […]
Packed and Ready To Go!
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us Ephesians 3:20 I am so excited to leave for Xiamen on Friday! I am almost packed and ready to go! Last night I was surprised to hear that due […]
