Who We Are
Bring Me Hope is people—a core group of leaders and interns working with hundreds of volunteers every year to deliver love and encouragement to Chinese orphans. It began with one family, one adopted baby, and one summertime trip to China. Now Bring Me Hope is an organization that spans several continents: From its hometown in Fallbrook, California, it has branched out to the rest of the United States, as well as Canada and Australia. Our staff also includes dedicated Chinese translators who make each summer's work in the People's Republic possible. But as the global scope of our mission expands, our focus on families and organic relationships remains steadfast.
We operate out of a small office in rural Fallbrook—no elevator, no phone extensions, no cubicles. Just a water cooler, a couple of workstations atop a plastic table, and a single phone line we have to unplug to send a fax. We are a small organization by design, so that more of our resources are free to help the orphans we desperately want to reach.
We are Christians and believe that God created every person with value. It breaks our hearts when children are rejected, abandoned, and abused. Most of them—at least the older ones—understand that no one is coming for them. Who would? Parents who are dead, or who signed them over in the first place? Some of the little ones still cling to false hope of redemption. All of them need to experience love, and within that love, to find realistic hope of a future and meaning. We want to use the amount of time we have on Earth to instill those ideas. We want to find little girls and boys who are down on life, pick them up, look them in the eyes and tell them they have value and they are loved. Here at Bring Me Hope, that is a privilege we enjoy on an annual basis, and it is so potent that we spend the rest of the year working toward that single moment.
Our experiences and histories vary, but one thing binds us: Passion for serving needy children, and recruiting others to the same cause. We hope that you will be the newest member of our community.
Her name was Ya Ya. To say the look in her eyes sparked Bring Me Hope to life may be an overstatement, but then again, maybe not. David Bolt, a California boy with a knack for starting things, founded Bring Me Hope with Ya Ya in mind, and the effect of meeting her in a Chinese orphanage is what he wants to replicate during every week of summer camp.