BringingJoyToJingmen

Monday, July 7, 2008

Today gotchaday for Jin Feng

Today July 7 is the gotchaday of Jin Feng who will meet her mom,dad,and brother Carrie,Michael and Kevin O'Brien.
I hope all will go well for them today and hope Jin Feng can cope with all changes.
She is going to leave her Jingmen friends and staff behind and find the love and care of her forever family.Her new name is Kelly Jin Feng!!
Here is the link to the O'Briens travel blog
http://www.thestoryofyou.net/KellyJinFeng.html

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Jin Karla/Helena joined the Barnhart family

Jin Karla/Helena is home and here two photos of Helena armed with her brother and sister.
Her proud mom tells she is attaching well and just fits perfectly in her forever family !!
Thank you April and Jeff for these precious photos of your beautiful childen.

Monday, May 26, 2008

Nathan/Jin Felipe from Jingmen now at home!

Welcome home Jin Felipe or Nathan!! Thank you Matt & Mary for your permission to publish some photos of your son.
Is seems Nathan is already having a great time with his mom and dad!
Look what a happy face of this beautiful boy!

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Jin Virginia is now Sarah Jin Wei

Jin Virginia and her forever family; photo above showing Mr Ma of the Jingmen SWI

With permission of Sarah Jin Wei's family here some photos from their family album made during the adoption trip to their Jingmen daughter.
Thank you so much Sarah Jin Wei's family for sharing them for the BringingJoyToJingmen blog.

Friday, April 11, 2008

Jin Karla soon on her way home

Jin Karla soon to be adopted; link to travel blog of her forever family

Adoption journey to Jin Felipe

On May 1 2008 Jin Felipe's forever family will travel to China to meet their son and bring him home. With permission of his family here is the link to their travel blog.

Jin Virginia has her forever family

Jin Virginia united with her forever family

Here is happy news to share: Jin Virginia was recently adopted by her American forever family.
Congratulations for you lovely Jin Virginia. We wish you a very happy and joyful life with your mom and dad and sister.
And hope you will always have good memories of your first home in Jingmen.

BringingJoyToJingmen

WELCOME!

BringingJoyToJingmen is created to inform you about the Grace and Hope for Children Foster Care Program for the Jingmen orphanage in Jingmen, Hubei province in China.

For a little more than $ 1 a day you can sponsor a Jingmen orphan to live in a foster family.
Your money gives a child the gift of a foster family which means a chance to bond and grow up healthy.

The Jingmen orphanage has 21 childen, of whom 7 are older than 7 years. With the help of sponsors each one of them could live in a foster family. Some children do have special needs.
Grace and Hope is responsible for the selection and training of foster families. Besides they help with medical issues.
Daily foster care has a great beneficial impact on a child life's and enhances its chance to attend public school as they are likely to themselves like other children.

A Grace and Hope social worker visits the foster family every 3 months to monitor the child's progress.
The quarterly reports including photos are mailed to the child's sponsor. These reports give a glimpse into a child's daily life.
It is always a joy to read about the big benefits and amazing progress a child makes after coming into a loving foster family.
True miracles happen when they learn to call their new foster family their home.

BringingJoyToJingmen is created by Patty Smith (U.S.A) and Marjanne Laeven (The Netherlands) both volunteers for the Jingmen Foster Program.