The long awaited moment is here!! My 2018 China Journey video. It was so hard to put 6 months into just 13 mins and 33 seconds but when it was done, I just knew. Thank you to so many for having an interest in it! I successfully made half a room of people cry on […]

On January 31st, 2018, I flew from my home to a country I felt was my second home. Only when I arrived and pulled my suitcases into my room and saw the morning sunrise, I was stunned to see a different China than the one I’d left. Northern China was not Central China. I was […]
Today I ran into a dear friend that I grew up with and after hugging her 10x’s, I turned to her with tear filled eyes and said “Do you want to adopt Baby Zach?” Just saying it felt like death *breathe* to life, to agony, to life again and simultaneously felt like the BEST gift […]

It has been 6 months. Half a year. 25 weeks. 176 days. It has been 25 full weeks. 25 full weeks in China. 6 months, mountaintops and valleys. 6 months: joy and sorrow, tears and laughter, hello’s and goodbye’s. 6 months building deep relationships and earning the trust of 56 Chinese orphans. Tomorrow I get […]
It was May 19th. Moody Bible Men’s Choir was visiting China and stopped by for a few days to visit SFCV and gave a short concert on a Saturday morning for the kids. Isaac ran over and clambered up into my lap, and I hugged him tightly, unwilling to let him go. Tomorrow he would […]