Bring Me Hope Camp is near

We are down to the final days to when Bill will be leaving for camp in China. He is very excited, and nervous and anxious. We have been busy the past few days getting everything that we think he'll need for next week. He will have 1 translator and possibly 2 kids to be a "big brother" to. Bill will not know who the kids are until next week. They could be a boy, or girl between the ages of 5-18 years old. That has been hard for Bill to plan.
Originally the camp was going to be held in or near Beijing. Well those plans have changed. So Bill was able to book a flight in China to where the camp will be. It was either take an hour flight, or a 7-8 hr train ride. Bill opted for the flight. LOL Bill has information on where the camp will be on his blog.

He also received an email from David with Bring Me Hope. He is there already and has been trying to get the camp all set up. Below is an email Bill received today. We are so excited to see how God is working......

Hello from Xin Zheng, China! About 1 week ago we had some news that none of us saw coming. We found out that our Beijing camp would need to move because the government was shutting down the hotel we were staying in. I still don’t understand exactly what happened. But everything is CRAZY in Beijing with the Olympics coming. Anyway, we had four days to be out of the hotel. So we prayed! The months of preparation for the Beijing camp were gone in just a few seconds. And we still had over 400 people coming.

We began putting the word out and ended up really connecting with an orphanage that has about 600 orphans. We found a college university (SIAS University)that was willing to host our camp and within 2 days we were off to explore. We got the approval from the school and had the rest of the team leave Beijing and take the train to our new camp. One of my favorite memories was unloading the truck with ALL our random camp items. One of the translaters said, “You brought everything but the kitchen sink… But I saw that you brought one of those too.” Kids and volunteers and craziness arrive at the train station tonight. I’ll let you know how the week goes!

Our good friend Pete (who is going with Bill to the camp) was asked by their local paper to do an article. He did a great job on the article. Here is a link so you can read it. (Going Back to China)

You can also read his journals on his blog Living in Cinderella's Castle.

I'm really excited about this. Bill & I feel so strong with helping the orphans in China. We would love to do this full time. But we really do not know how we could manage that. Right now all we can do is raise awareness & money for Bring Me Hope so they can continue to do the camps every year.

Thanks for checking on us. Be sure to check out Bills blog. He hopes to update it in China. I will also update mine when we hear from him.

Please pray for Bill & Pete as they travel. Pray for everyone involved in the camp. Pray for the children who will be coming.

Love,
Debbie