We’re happy to have “Hannah’s Story” up on the website, free for you to view and share with everyone!  We want to make people aware of what these orphans face and the reality of their dire situations.

Click here to watch and share Hannah’s Story!

But we at Bring Me Hope want to not only bring awareness, but a chance for you to respond.  Pray for these kids, sponsor a kid to go to camp, or come volunteer with us this summer!  Advocate for our “Star of the Week” and ask families you know to adopt these beautiful kids.

Together, we can change the lives of these orphans!

Here is an update on David (volunteer Micah Crowe’s buddy from camp in Xi’an this summer!)… the awesome sequel to the post, “Ready to Belong”.  We are excited to pray alongside Jim and Kari Schott as they seek to bring David home to be a part of their forever family!  The following is a guest post by Jim and Kari about their “China adventure” to bring David home!
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“Smooooch!” The chapstick worked well for the principal as he bent down to kiss a way too cute pig at the school carnival. A highlight of the school carnival, there was also good food, lots of kids, and fun games. In the midst of all the candy and treats, one game was thoughtfully giving toothbrushes to the winners. Our little man came home with two new toothbrushes feeling very proud of himself.

As he handed them to me to put away, he said, “Mom, I want you to save this for my brother.” He has three older sisters. We have been praying about a brother to adopt. We began the adoption road almost three years ago. There is no doubt why God gave this little man the nickname “Hope-bug.”

Not that cross your fingers kind of hope. A wish. A dream. Known certainty is the kind of hope we can have. Lots of things we don’t know, but we can focus on what we do know. God is love. God sent His Son, Jesus, to adopt us into His family. God is with us! If we will put our hope in Jesus, we know we will be with Him always. Why? Because of who Jesus Is. We put ourselves in the very Hands of Hope.

Our little man is praying for his brother whom we have nicknamed “Peace-bug.” We pray that his prayers, and ours, will strengthen our faith as we have our hope in God, trusting God to work His plans in our lives and in “brother’s” life too.

Hope-Bug’s verse is Psalm 71:5-6, “Sovereign Lord, I put my hope in You; I have trusted in You since I was young. I have relied on You all my life; You have protected me since the day I was born. I will always praise You.”

Not too bad for a preemie who came 5 weeks early and his lungs were not ready. God knew this verse a year before our Hope-bug came. His first breath was absolutely in God’s hands. He’s a big Kindergartner now ready to run and play with his brother.

Two weeks after the school carnival, while checking out face book, I saw a post by Micah Crowe on the Bring Me Hope website. Micah wrote about a sweet, smiling little boy who needed a family. I could email Kelly to learn more about him. I did. We talked on the phone.

My husband and I talked to Living Hope Adoption Agency. We liked the “hope” connection. We sent our application in with much prayer and hope. We were so excited to learn that we had been matched and could begin our China adventure!

How did I read the post on Bring Me Hope’s Facebook page? My friend, who has four children adopted from China and whom several of our children are in the same grade at the same school and we go to the same church, took her oldest daughter to China last summer to volunteer at a Bring Me Hope Camp.

We walked to help raise money two years in a row with this beautiful family and were blessed to be a small part of their love and time given in China last summer through Bring Me Hope.

Since our being matched, we have met many special people who love our son. Pictures and videos have been given to us and much prayer has been said for us and for him.

Bring Me Hope has been a connection for many of these people and especially for the precious children the summer camp is meant for.

Who knew that a little smiling boy, often pictured right in the middle of a group of children, would attend summer camp for Chinese orphans, have his story shared by this organization by someone who loves him and prays for him to have a family, read by us just because we had supported and prayed for friends who volunteered at this camp? God knew.

Our son who waits for us in China has been given the nick name “peace-bug.” We have nicknames for all our children. And we also give each of them a Bible verse. His verse, picked out 12-4-2009, is Psalm 22:9-10, “You, Lord, brought me safely through birth and You protected me when I was a baby at my mother’s breast. From the day I was born, I have been in Your care, and from the time of my birth, You have been my God.”

We hope to complete one more major piece soon to complete our home study and then have all the paperwork put together and mailed to China.

My blog is www.growingforeverdaisies.blogspot.com.

Thank you for your prayers for us as we continue our China adventure to bring our son home.

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Micah Crowe (the volunteer who worked with David in Xi’an) adds that she highly encourages everyone to advocate for all these amazing children who still need forever families.  Please continue to pray over every Bring Me Hope “Star of the Week” and spread the word about these kids!  Praise God that David’s forever family found him so quickly- now let’s help other forever families find their kids!