Our first adopted child is going to university!
Monday, June 15, 2009 at 11:34PM | Share Article 
A smiling Abigail (Hu Yang 胡楊) flanked by the two police officers who brought her to Xining Children's Home after she had been abandoned. The officers were clearly smitten by Hu Yang, as they brought gifts to her at the home every year until she was adopted in 2003. This photo was taken when Hu Yang visited the Home in July, 2007.The wedding picture of Zhong Linjun (蓮君) a couple of weeks ago made many of you happy - especially Kim and Steve Anderson in the USA, who adopted a teenager from Xining in 2003. When they came to collect 14-year-old Hu Yang (胡楊), they were sad because they couldn't also take Linjun home with them. They were thrilled to see her picture here - happily married!
The Andersons have just told us that Hu Yang graduated last Saturday (13th), and will be going to Christopher Newport University! When she came into our care at Xining Children's Home in 1989 Hu Yang was a newborn infant. She had a deformed right knee and since then she's had surgery several times and is now able to walk without a limp.
Abigail (that's what she's called now) graduated with honours! Her mother wrote, 'The school principal, guidance counselor, and teachers all voted unanimously that she should be chosen to be interviewed by our metropolitan newspaper as someone who has overcome hardship and done very well with her life.' Last summer she even designed and ran a course on Chinese culture and language for children at the library.
Abigail wrote to us that her church also did a course about good character and she learned a lot from it, 'such as tolerance, patience, loyalty, kindness, having a servant heart, courage at the time of danger, and so on.' This is the same course kindly provided by Kum Thong and Sreedhar of Malaysia for our staff at Christian Action. Abigail is planning to be a missionary for two years after she finishes college and before she takes up teaching.
Kim (Mrs Anderson) says that Abigail wanted to do something to help them pay her college fees so she applied for scholarships. She made such an impression that she was offered three scholarships which will be a great help in paying her fees. Kim wrote, 'We just wanted to share our blessing with you because you had such a strong influence on her when she was young. She is a beautiful young woman and you would be proud of her.'
We share that blessing with YOU, our supporters, who help us play our part in helping children reach their full potential! Don't stop helping please!
Siew Mei
Reader Comments (5)
Thank you for these delightful posts!!! I am so appreciative. They are so uplifting.
Thanks Judy for your kind words.
I have the pleasure of knowing HuYang, for it is with my daughter and two granddaughters, also adopted from Xining, that HuYang returned to China. She is indeed a delightful young woman. We are blessed to have had the girls so well taken care of before they came into our lives. Keep up the good work!
Lao Lao
Dear Lao Lao,
Thank you for your kind words. We are always grateful for having the chance to look after the children, watch them grow and make progress with their lives; and we are even more delighted when they get to join loving families who'd adore and care for them as much as they deserve.
Please send my best regards to the girls - Wang Ling and Bingjie; and I hope you all are keeping well and happy!
God Bless,
Siew Mei
Dear Siew Mei,
I am so touched by each of the stories. I feel that the work that is done is so essential. I did not know how horrific it is for the children to be abandoned until I see a photo of an actual child who was abandoned because of being disabled. Yes I join you in marveling at those parents of disabled children who give themselves, their time, money and resources to care for their disabled children. I shall pray with you for Jun Jun and others like her that the Lord will heal her and the Lord will keep her mother in His care and love because it must be so difficult to see Jun Jun's health failing. Is there any help for her mother to pay the hospital bills. Who pays for that at 300RMB per day?
Blessings,
Barbara