Forever Hopeful: Irma’s Journey
My name is Irma and this is my story. When I was 9, my two younger sisters and I were living with our aunt. She didn’t take very good care of us. I didn’t know where our parents were; all I knew was that I needed to help my sisters. I remember the day that everything […]
Forever Together: Pongi
Pongie was a darling little girl who arrived at our partner home in Haiti a few days before one of our Embrace Missions teams arrived in Haiti. She was an absolutely beautiful little girl who would be warm and engaging one moment and break into sad tears the next. The staff and care takers at […]
Forever Thankful: Child Sponsors
In this season of Thanksgiving, we continue to say “Thank You” to all those who partner with us to transform the lives of countless orphans around the world. Today we are mindful of all the children’s lives changed thanks to our wonderful child sponsors. ASEMLASH lost both of his parents from disease. His older brother […]
Forever Thankful: Genet & Solomon
In this season of giving and thanksgiving, we want to say “Thank You” to all those who partner with us to transform the lives of countless orphans around the world. Thanks to your care and support, we celebrate the impact of transformed lives at Hannah’s Hope. Through the loving care of our Special Mothers, lives of […]
Orphan Week Launched in Ghana
This report comes from the Ghana News Agency… Accra, Oct. 31, GNA – All God’s Children International, (AGCI) Ghana, on Thursday launched an Orphan Week, aimed at creating awareness and sensitizing the public on the need to support orphans and vulnerable children in society. The week, being held in collaboration with the World Without Orphans […]
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 […]
Returning to Fengzhe
Today Rocky and I headed to the Fengzhe orphanage which is about a 2 hour drive from Xiamen, and about 1/2 way to the capitol city of Fuzhou. I enjoyed visiting with Rocky in the car and talking about all that has happened over the last year. The Fengzhe orphanage is difficult to get to […]
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 […]
Finally in Xiamen
Well, I finally made it to Xiamen, but it was not how I originally planned! It just goes to show that you always have to roll with the punches and be flexible when you travel! 🙂 After saying goodbye to my family I left for China from Portland. However, my flight in to San Francisco […]
