Yes, I found a picture I took at Lunch the day we ate Worms!

Liz did Not try the dish in the right hand corner!

Each Child Matters to God

We already Miss China!!! Look at those eyes! What Now, You Might Ask... and I would say there are Three things I want to do

1. Bring Gideon to the USA so he can get a leg and walk

2. Build a House for Bethel so they can HELP more blind orphans and get them adopted

(WE Need to raise $50,000)

3. Provide life saving formula to the sick orphan babies

If you want to help Please let me know!

www.amotherslovechina.com under contact us

Thank you

Sweet....

Turn your head to see Joyce who I think should be called Mother Teresa...Each child will get a special baby book just about them! Joyce gets all the babies that the state run orphanages can't help. She loves each one of them as her own!!!!

This handsome boy will be having surgery very soon... A Mother's Love is sponsoring the surgery.

This is sweet Anna...She is two years old and is such a doll baby! Anna is as sweet as Pie! She is paralyzed from the waist down but is 100% Smart and is just Perfect! PLEASE...Please pray for Anna to Find a family....

Our Time is Coming to an End.

Well, I will keep it short and sweet tonight, it's late and we are exhausted. I promise to finish tomorrow once we get to the airport.

We had the priviledge of going to New Hope Foster Home today. What an incredible place! Joyce and Robin Hill are two of the most amazing individuals I have ever met. The amount of person concern and care they provide the 150 or so babies is overwhelming. Today we were able to meet and hold little babies that without Joyce and Robin would not have made it long on this earth. Their passion for helping these little babies is incredible. We met a little girl today that came to Hope at the age of one weighing six pounds, after one year she is around 20 or so pounds. The before and after pictures are unbelievable. We spent the better part of today with Joyce telling us stories each of the babies, the new Louyang Palative care unit and the 100 plus babies they are going to be able to help once it opens. It was incredible to hear Joyce give specific details about each of the children we saw. She loves these kids as if they were her very own. Today was a tough day at Hope for all of us too, as you can imagine not every story ends in success, but we know God always has a plan. It feels good to know that AML has three very impressive organizations that we support here in Beijing.

OK funny story....well not that funny but good. Today for lunch Robin the master chef that he is prepared lunch for us.....I thought for sure we were having fish and chips (Robin is British) but we had pasta and as Elizabeth said the best mashed potatoes she has ever eaten. They were good. Anyway we got to meet Katie as well, their adopted daughter, just imagine Annalei at eight, high energy - full throtle. She helped us bargain at one of the markets. What a kid! We will post more tomorrow with some pictures, I don't have the camera and I am sitting in Starbucks for the free internet. Say a prayer that our flight home goes well.


the canters

Jam Packed Day!

Well, not only did we go to Church today, we had lunch with the two couples that run the foster homes. For those of you who think Grandmas Kitchen is the best American food in Beijing, I think I have been introduced to a new place that is even better. Pete's Tex Mex located directly across from the Western Sizzler, oh yes, Western Sizzler, and as I was told today they have great food. All I could think of was Golden Coral. Anyway, we had a terrific lunch and were able to chat with both couples. They tried to talk us into moving to Beijing. Maybe not today, maybe tomorrow, I sink so! There was another profound learning from today luncheon. We were all discussing the small restaurant that we went with Guillaume to in the Village outside of Beijing. I told you he was rather kind to us in the food selection department, well.....apparently he asked the owner to bring a couple of Green Vegetables to put on the table for us. When they came one was the Garlic dish and the other we were told had bits of chicken sprinkled on it. It wasn't chicken! I was a little suspicious when the bits looked like chicken toes, but I thought Chickens don't have toes.....it turns out that they were baby silk worms, yes worms...remember the book we all read in 5th grade 100 ways to eat worms, I found number 101 and I am re- releasing the book.

After lunch we all headed to the Forbidden City and Tienanmen Square with the kids to take in the sights. Let me tell you there are a lot of people in China and I think half of them were there. I t reminded me a lot like Disney with the tour groups from south America and the little bouncing flag. I am still amazed at the shear volume of people and all of them want to have a picture with a Westerner. Elizabeth was set up a couple of times, Nolan and Christopher are little blond emperors in the eyes of the Chinese people. Elizabeth has always been a bit timid with the constant barrage of people selling stuff and following you around. Well today she over came her fear at the Silk Market...she worked the girl selling sunglasses over...it was like watching Sugar Ray Leonard go at it. Oh yeah, she got her price and two pair of sunglasses.

Tomorrow morning we are heading to Hope Foster Home to see Joyce and Robin Hill. It will be another wonderful day with these precious little kids. Sorry for the long message here is a couple of pictures of us today.

The Crew from Lunch, Byron and Karen Brenamen, Guillaume and Daphine, Emily ( Nurse at New Day) and the Canters.

At the Gardens of the Forbidden City. Amazing!