Invited to transform

In 2007 Christian Action became a registered charity in the UK. Our former Hong Kong Chairman, Rev. John Aldis, heads up the UK arm of Christian Action. In a few days I'll be in the U.K. to meet with the Board of Directors and other friends and supporters.

Some supporters will be meeting me for the first time, so I'll not only be telling them the amazing story of our journey  on the Tibetan Plateau over the last 15 years, but will also tell them some exciting and challenging news that you may not have heard yet. So here's a very brief overview for you too.

Following my dream about an abandoned baby, we began co-managing Xining Children’s Home with the provincial government in 1998. Ten years later, we gained a national Award for the ‘Top Ten Child Welfare Institutions’. The Home had become a beacon of God’s love in Qinghai Province.

When the authorities asked us to establish one flagship orphanage in each of the eight Prefectures in Qinghai, I was both excited and frightened by the enormity of this task. Under the name Christian Action, we would be modeling standards of best practice for other children’s homes throughout China. In 2008 we began co-managing Huangnan Children’s Home, where the children are mainly from nomadic Tibetan tribes.

In May 2011 we began co-managing the newly-built Haixi Children’s Home, with space for 200 children.

The construction of new Children’s Homes in the prefectures of Goulok, Hainan and Haibei is due to be completed in the summer of 2012.  Each of these Homes will provide a safe haven for 200 to 600 children. Haidong and Yushu Children’s Homes are scheduled to open in 2013 or 2014.

We started out caring for 27 children, but now we provide over 600 children with a home! I truly believe `Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress.’ (James 1:27). This is my motivation for working in Qinghai, and I have always shared it openly.  Teaching their caregivers to love the children unconditionally, as God loves us, is our goal.  And you, our supporters, help us to also give these vulnerable children the practical care they desperately need.  All of this helps transform the lives of unwanted, disabled, neglected children, so please continue to walk with us on this journey of transforming lives on the Tibetan Plateau.