China Orphans

Living in China

2010-04-26T09:02:00.003-05:00

Living in China

Joy and I moved to Beijing China in May of 1995. At time Beijing was at least one third smaller. It was a shock to be in a place that you can’t speak any Chinese and can’t order food or tell a taxi driver where you want to go.

We studied Chinese mandarin there for one and one half years. then we moved to a city in the Liaoning Province called Shen Yang. Joy taught English at a medical university.

In 2000, we moved to Dalian China, a city on the coast. It is beautiful there. We opened an orphanage and received 16 Chinese orphans. We could have taken 29 China orphans that day but we only had enough money to take the ones we got. We still have 12 of those children now. Some are in university, some in high school and one in middle school.

There are many Christian Ministries in China doing different things different ways.

Rick Haynes: SEO

China Harvest Ministries

254-592-2900

China Orphans March Letter

2010-04-22T13:28:00.005-05:00

Dear Family, Friends, and Pastors:

2nd Timothy 2:10 Therefore I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

We are patiently waiting to see signs of Spring over here. The weather still is cool, with temps in the 30’s and 40’s. We are believing for warmer weather to come our way, as the heat is turned off in all apartments and buildings on the first of April. That month is usually a time when we wear coats and even gloves and scarves in our apartments! But we know it is temporary and are able to endure all things.

Dawn Is Breaking:

Matthew 5:16 Let your light so shine before all men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.

There is a break of dawn here, with light beginning to shine forth as I am teaching English to Korean Mothers, Korean Children, and a group of young fellows who work in a Ship Yard. A most interesting thing is that out in the Shipyard there is a huge monument. It is the Bible. There are two monuments, one is inside the gate, and the other one is on the main floor of the office building. On one side of the open book is inscribed Is. 25:1 in English and the other side it is in Chinese. It ministers to many as they stop and read the inscription. The company has employed over 500 employees. What a wonderful witness. The mother’s that I am teaching at the Korean School are open to hearing the good news, and there are some that are already in the family! Children are beginning to ask questions about our Father also. The splendor of His glory is beginning to break through, and He is showing Himself off in the classrooms.

Also I am meeting weekly with a young University student who is becoming more and more interested in walking in the light, and living the good life that has been prearranged and made ready for her to live.

Rick Haynes: SEO

China Orphans

China Harvest Ministries

Update on China Orphans

2010-01-10T10:50:00.004-06:00

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THis is Han Xiao and she came to us as a Chinese orphan in 2000 and
Has been with us 9 years now.

She is enrolled in a 3year Computer Course, learning computer programming.
This is her first year. She has adjusted very well and has
found favor with many of her classmates and teachers. She
is a very happy girl, and has a heart to help others.

This is Zhou Li. She was also a China orphan that came to
Us in 2000.

Zhou Li and Han Xiao both attend
the same school. Zhou Li is in her third
year and will graduate in July. Her
teachers consider her to be a good example
to other girls in her class, as she is very
modest, and also loving and kind to all she meets.

Rick Haynes

China Harvest Ministries

First Family

Can you help this China orphan?

2009-03-11T12:57:00.005-06:00

Another China orphan! Can you help?

This is Shekinah Joy. She is a Chinese orphan and came to the orphanage outside of Dalian, China back in September 2000. She was 6 years old when she came and was very small from being malnourished. Her father died first then she cared for her sick mother. Her mother had cancer and Shekinah would take her mothers cloths to the half frozen river and wash the blood out of them. Her hands and face was like leather from weather exposure.

Her mother died of the cancer and she came to live at the orphanage. Her skin began to heal after many months of good food and skin care. Rick and Joy Haynes, founders of China Harvest Ministries, worked with the government and started the orphanage in Sept. 2000.

Shekinah has always laughed and giggled. Her Chinese name is Han Xiao. It means little laughing one. It sure fits her. She is in the 10th grade now and doing well. If you would like to help support her with finances, please contact China Harvest Ministries. Po Box 2074 Broken Arrow, Oklahoma 74013 U.S.A.
Rick Haynes – President and CEO
http://chinaharvest.org
http://bigtex52.1-family.com

Just because you are late doesnt mean you can't finish!

2009-02-16T22:13:00.003-06:00

This is Ming Han. In September 2000 he was brought to the orphanage outside of Dalian China. Rick and Joy Haynes of China Harvest Ministries had just funded and opened a new orphanage at that time under the Chinese authority and a Chinese Director. Ming Han was a twelve year old Chinese orphan who had never been to school a day in his life. It wasn't because of his intelligence, but because he was just so poor. He couldn't read or write Chinese, but was a very good soft hearted boy.

So, he was taken in to the beautiful new orphanage by the sea. He was the first orphan child to arrive there. A few days later, 10 more orphans arrived from the village areas. Now, it was time for Ming Han to start to school. He was enrolled in the first grade but he was so embarrassed because of his age. He was several years older then the others and was much taller. But he was given encouragement from the loving staff and before long he was doing Ok. His teachers also encouraged him and helped him in public school. They all liked him because of his quiet demeanor.

These past eight and a half years, Ming Han has gone from the first grade to the ninth grade and is about to finish middle school. Not only can Ming Han read and write Chinese but he can also read and write English and speak it very well. For eight years Rick and Joy and a few of other foreigners taught him English on the weekends along with the other children at the orphanage. Actually, all the kids there speak English fluently now. When Ming Han finishes middle school this year, he will be sent to a trade school and he will learn a trade. China Harvest Ministries will sponsor him until he is out and has a job.

The motto of China harvest Ministries is "A home where Chinese orphans can have hope and a second chance for a successful life". Ming Han has been given a second chance in life and he will do well.

Rick Haynes - President and CEO
China Harvest Ministries
http://chinaharvest.org/
http://helping-china-orphans.com/

http://bigtex52.1-family.com/

2009-02-08T11:24:00.003-06:00

The Chinese Lantern Festival

It falls on the 15th day of the first month of the Lunar Year. The Lantern Festival takes place on a full moon, and marks the end of Chinese New Year festivities. The Lantern Festival dates back to shrouded legends of the Han Dynasty over 2000 years ago.

Popular Food:

The most popular food for the Chinese Lantern Festival is a kind of sweet dumpling made of glutinous rice or wheat flour. Joy and the kids at the orphanage are making these dumplings for the festival. The Chinese name of this dish is (Yuanxiao)

Where did the festival originate:

We are not sure but there is one legend that the Jade Emperor in Heaven was so angered at a town for killing his favorite goose, that he decided to destroy it with a storm of fire. But, a good fairy heard of this storm of fire, and warned the people of the town to light lanterns throughout the town on the appointed day. The towns people did as they were told, and from the Heavens, it looked as if the whole village was on fire. Satisfied that his goose had already been avenged, the Jade Emperor decided not to burn the town. From that day on, people celebrated the anniversary of their deliverance by carried lanterns of different shapes and colors through the streets on the first full moon of the year.

When you go out in the streets, red lanterns are everywhere and fireworks are going off again.

Rick Haynes – President and CEO

China Harvest Ministries

http://www.chinaharvest.org

http://www.helping-china-orphans.com

http://www.chinaharvest.wordpress.com

This is Xu Huan Huan

2009-02-01T13:16:00.008-06:00

This is Xu Huan Huan

Her name sounds like ( Shoe Hwan Hwan ).

XHH is a China orphan along with her older sister Xu Ling. She came to the orphanage about a year or so after it was open. I am not sure how their parents died but they were orphans. The welfare department asked if we would take them in and w did. She was just about to start the first grade when they came. What a little cutie she was and still is. When she talked, she would peep like a bird. So faint you could hardly hear her. Now she is in the eighth grade. XHH is very intelligent and does well in school. It takes about $800 a year to care for her and pay her school fees. Would you be willing to help sponsor her? Can you help?

Click on this picture for picture album.

Xu Huan Huan

Rick Haynes – President and CEO
China Harvest Ministries
254-592-2900
http://chinaharvest.org/
http://helping-china-orphans.com/

2009-01-26T13:54:00.008-06:00

This is a story about Peng Peng
" Pung Pung"
a poor Chinese boy who became a man.

In the summer of 2000 my wife Joy and I heard from a group of reporters in Kai Fa Qu China, that there was a very poor man and his son living in the mountains of the Zhan He area in the Liao Ming Province. These reporters cried as they talked about this man and his son. The man’s wife had left him after he had a stroke and it was just him and his son Peng Peng. We wanted to meet them so one of the reporters took us up there and we met the man and his son. The man was paralyzed on one side and couldn’t work. They had no food and the house they lived in, had no windows but plastic over the window openings. It was freezing outside and the river near by was frozen. The floor was just dirt.

Peng Peng was about 7 years old and was caring for his father. He gathered wood in the freezing cold for his neighbors to make a little money and he washed his father’s cloths in the freezing river. He also walked 5 miles back and forth to school. When we visited them, we took them some rice and oil and told them we were going to open an orphanage soon and we would hire him to be a guard or something. The man cried as he needed some help.

In about a month we returned to get the man and his son. We noticed he wasn’t limping any more. He had regained his strength on his paralyzed side since we had seen him last. We offered him the job of cooking for the 16 Chinese orphans we had gathered. We paid for Peng Peng”s school and he fit in along with the other kids. He did well in School and they lived there about two years. His father decided to leave one day and took Peng Peng with him.

We didn’t see him for a few years and he called and said his father had died and he was working in a bread company. A few years later he called and wanted to join the army and ask if we could help him pay the entrance fee. We gave him the amount and he joined the army. He just got out of the army and called Joy and he still calls her grandma. He came to visit Joy and all the kids. He is a man now and will have no trouble getting a job as the Chinese treat their solders well.

Rick Haynes- President and CEO

China Harvest Ministries

http://chinaharvest.org

http://helping-china-orphans.com

2009-01-22T09:00:00.003-06:00

This is a video of the Chinese orphans we care for in China. It shows when they first came in 2000 and how they look now 8 years later. Maybe you can help a China orphan today.

Rick Haynes
http://chinaharvest.org/
http://helping-china-orphans.com/

2009-01-20T23:35:00.004-06:00

The thief returns the cell phone!!

About two weeks ago, my wife “Joy” was on the bus in Dalian China where we live. The bus was so crowded as it was bitter cold outside. A man stuck his hand in my wife’s purse and stole her cell phone. When she got off the bus and into a store she was going to call one of the Chinese orphans we care for. We call them our children and they call us grandma and grandpa. We have 13 children altogether. Joy finally noticed her cell phone was gone and knew it was stolen. So she went back to the apartment and one of our girls who is studying to be a nurse, called the house. Grandma, she said, where have you been, I have been trying to call you. Joy said someone stole my cell phone on the bus. So Xu Ling ( sounds like Shoe Ling) called Joy’s cell number. A man answered the phone. Xu Ling said you stole that phone from my grandma; she needs that phone as she cares for 13 children and she needs it. The man hung up. So Xu Ling calls another girl and all the other children. They start calling the man. That is my grandma’s phone, you must give it back. She doesn’t have the money for another. Those precious kids pestered that thief until he said, “I will bring it back, it is too much trouble”. That is what he did. That will teach him to steal from Grandma Joy.

Rick Haynes- President and CEO
China Harvest Ministries

http://chinaharvest.org/

http://helping-china-orphans.com/

http://www.prlog.org/10171236-the-thief-returned-the-cell-phone.html