If you’re a regular visitor to our blog you’ll know that we’re celebrating our tenth anniversary this year. Our leaders have been in China for the last couple of weeks and on March 17th attended a very significant event – a banquet to mark ten years of partnership with the Chinese Government in Hunan Province. Over one hundred children and carers attended the meal and cruise down the Xiang river. It really was a high profile night. There were TV cameras galore and the local police turned out to provide an escort.
At Chinese celebrations everyone loves to make a speech. It’s like having a wedding with umpteen best men! ICC leaders, Government officials and ICC staff all joined in. One of the young men who has been in our care since the very early days was invited to make a speech too.
Chen Shi spoke about how he’s experienced love, received hope and been given an opportunity to grow, develop and study. He spoke of the sense of family and belonging that he knows and described life in the group homes, proudly sharing how he contributes by shopping and cooking. He has a place at University and shared his dream of an independent life in the future. As he spoke, he paused frequently and touched his heart as if to take strength from within. His face shone with love and joy at all he had to celebrate and his moving speech was one of the highlights of the evening.
I can guarantee there’ll be many more stories like this over the coming months, so please keep reading and join us in thanking God for all He has done in the life of Chen Shi and many others. He truly is awesome!
At Chinese celebrations everyone loves to make a speech. It’s like having a wedding with umpteen best men! ICC leaders, Government officials and ICC staff all joined in. One of the young men who has been in our care since the very early days was invited to make a speech too.
Chen Shi spoke about how he’s experienced love, received hope and been given an opportunity to grow, develop and study. He spoke of the sense of family and belonging that he knows and described life in the group homes, proudly sharing how he contributes by shopping and cooking. He has a place at University and shared his dream of an independent life in the future. As he spoke, he paused frequently and touched his heart as if to take strength from within. His face shone with love and joy at all he had to celebrate and his moving speech was one of the highlights of the evening.
I can guarantee there’ll be many more stories like this over the coming months, so please keep reading and join us in thanking God for all He has done in the life of Chen Shi and many others. He truly is awesome!
2 comments:
David ... great to see ICC also has a blog. I look forward to staying in touch and reading up on the amazing work you are doing for abandoned kids in China.
I'll add ICC to my blogroll.
Mark
It's great to see Chen Shi doing well. (I knew him as John) I had the opportunity of spending several weeks at the orphanage in 2001/2002...and to this day, those trips have been hugely impacting on my life.
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