Saturday, July 26

Today we checked out of our hotel in Beijing and started our day by having a time of going before the Father and bringing our request to him. We found out that some doors have been closed and we don't know what the plan is to replace them but the Father does, so we left it in his hands and went out doing his work today.

It was an AMAZING day as we went to Hope Foster Home and got to "Love" the little children. Hope Foster home is a home where orphanges send babies who they do not think have long to live. Some babies come with clef palates, severe diarrehea, heart defects, and many other problems. Some time the larger orphanges don't know how to handle the problems so they send them to "Hope" Foster Home. The babies are loved and cared for and more than 90% of them do survive with medical treatment and nutrition as opposed to the 50% survival rate for these children if they remain in the large orphanages.

Hope Foster home is the one that Stephen Curtis Chapman partners with and is helping to build a larger building. In the new facility they will be able to bring in doctors on medical mission to do the surgeries on site and not go through all the red tape to send them to the surgeons around the world.

You will see from the pictures that we LOVED the children. Many of us had a hard time pulling away when it was time to leave.

After we spent time with the babies we went to the airport for our trip to Urumqi where we will spend the next 5 days doing whatever the Father has planned for us. We don't know what yet, but he does.

You can see from the pictures that our Father was showing his wonder and might when he created the mountains, desert, clouds and the expanse of the sky. What a Glorious sight to see from 30,000 feet.

Request: health for the team (NO one is sick), restfl and flexibility as we meet needs.

Jimmie

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