Macy Li's Orphanage

I was able to go to see Macy Li's orphanage today. This was such a God-thing.
Rhonda will fill you in with the details, but for now, the photos will tell the
story for us.

We love you all.

~Macy Li's Daddy

Hi...It's Rhonda. Phillip wants me to tell you about his morning visit to "Li Ming's" orphanage. To begin with, this visit should not have happened. But God intervened and made the way. That's all I can say here, publicly.

Anyway, off they went at 7:30 this morning in a van, with a translator, and a driver. It was Phillip, 3 other dads, one son, and one grandmother from our travel group. This drive took about 3 hours through the worst roads he'd ever seen. He said there were places where the driver literally had to come to a stop and barely roll over and through all the potholes. Along the roads, peasant farmers lay out there peppers and rice to dry in the heat of the sun....right ON the road! Drivers politely go around it so that they won't disturb it. He said the countryside and sights were amazing. They drove through rice fields and saw many farmers. He also said it was very tropical-looking.

When they arrived at the orphanage, they quickly realized that this was not the place where we'd seen pictures of. As it turns out, that was the Jianxin orphanage up until May 2007 when they moved to this facility. Phillip and the others were met by the Orphange director, who we'd met on "Gotcha Day" and the following day at the Civil Affairs Office. He is SOOOOOO nice and clearly has affection for these little orphans. There are 20 babies there, divided into 3 rooms: Room A, Room B, Room C...Macy Li was in Baby Room A, along with "Ahna" the Simmons' family's little baby. Their cribs were next to each other.

He was asked not to take pics of the babies, so you won't see any above.

This is the orphanage she's been at since November 2007. Prior to that, she was at her original orphanage, 4 hours further into the countryside, where she was found on July 8, 2007. This orphanage does not adopt out internationally. PRAISE GOD she was sent to Jianxin!

Phillip met all the sweet caregivers, who were so gracious and kind.

He felt like it was "pretty" clean.....definitely not sanitary by our standards. But he said it was neat and tidy, and they seemed to be doing the best they could with what they had. The donations we took them should provide for some needs there, and Phillip asked what was a great need. They said an "autoclave" or some type of sterilization method, as well as a refrigerator. We're now working to make that happen for them. The most difficult part will be getting these things delivered to such a remote place. But, NOTHING is impossible for our God! We'd do anything to help these little kids. If they'd have said we could take 'em all, we would have loaded 'em up!

Well, there's so much more, but that's the highlights!