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October 2006
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CHI's Walk for Hope on Sunday, October 8th!!
Our annual fundraiser,
the Walk for Hope, will be held on
Sunday, October 8
2:00 p.m.
Granny White Park, Brentwood
If you cannot come but would like
to donate to the orphanage we are building in Ethiopia please send
checks to our Brentwood office.
This year, we will be joined Galina
Savicheva, the CHI representative in Tver Region in Russia, Ms. Alla
Zelenina, the head of the Good Start Foundation in Tver Region and the
wife of the Tver Region Governor, and Ms. Svetlana Konovalova, the
deputy head of the Good Start Foundation. They will take part in the
Walk for Hope to meet with our adoptive families and their children, and
to learn about fundraising events in the US. This is a
unique opportunity for our families who adopted in Tver Region or are
getting ready to adopt there, to visit with Galina (those of you have
adopted in Tver may have worked with her husband Alexey), as well as to
help our honored guests to understand the nature and
forms of fundraising activities in the US.
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Trick or
Treat at CHI
The staff at
Children's Hope would like to invite you to
Trick or Treat at our office
October 31
9:00 - 4:00
Come join us for lots of Halloween fun!
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The Lampkin Family, TN (Russia)

Ben is doing well and starting to adjust well to his new home, and we
are learning to live with much less sleep.
He
crawls very well and can walk pretty good with our assisting him in his
balance,
but he can walk along walls and other objects on his own. Of all the toys
that he has,
his favorite two are a cereal bowl and water bottles.
Words cannot express the joy that this baby boy has brought to my life,
and I still shudder to think of the fear and anxiety that almost kept me
from moving forward with the adoption. Thank you so much for
taking time to pray with us and offer your wisdom, encouragement and
support. It was exactly what I needed to hear and I will be
eternally grateful.
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The Collier Family,TN
(Russia, Operation Hope)
Please
allow me to brag just a bit. When you home school, each year the State
requires achievement testing. We just received the results from Olya's
last test.
She passed all subjects with "flying colors" but two subjects in
particular,
Language and Math, she scored "Past High School"!!!!!!!!!!!! Also, Inna
is doing
very well but she has yet to be tested. But, she is very smart and is
learning
things very rapidly. Just wanted to brag a little.
Of course too, they have a great teacher!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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The Earls
Family, TN (Russia)
Svetlana is absolutely
precious, and we are very thankful to have her. Joseph loves being a
big brother, and Svetlana absolutely adores Joseph. She is adjusting
beautifully - better than we could ever have imagined. Can't wait for you to meet her.

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The Sanders Family, TN
(China)
The caption for today's PIC is "And the Lamb will lie down with the
lion."

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The
Marshall Family, TN (Russia)
Brucie is a keeper indeed ! Thanks for checking on
us. Bruce is doing great ! In our time with him at the baby home we
finally got a smile the day before we went to court. Two hours after we
got him out of the Baby Home I tickled him & that was it, like someone
had opened the floodgates and out poured the biggest smile & non-stop
giggles.
He
whacked me in the face turned to his new brother and they both got
hysterical. We
thought the bonding with Jacey went quick but
this little guy is incredible. Jacey loves his new Brother.
I cannot tell you how much CHI has given us with
the gift of finding our two sons.Even
some of our own family members gave us grief when we announced we were
going for
a second child at this point in our life. That we would never
"hit the jackpot twice" with another adoption. One look at Bruce is all
anyone needs to know that this was all meant to be.
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The Bush Family, GA (Russia)
THANK
YOU ALL for the various roles you have played in making our adoption of
Amelia (Mila) a success. We appreciate your encouraging words,
incredible love, unwavering support, and faithful prayers
immensely. Come visit us soon!

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The Wade Family, TN (China)
I hope the attached picture of Elizabeth comes through. It was taken
at her 6th birthday party this past May. She’s very intent on
checking out her gifts!

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The Dunn Family, TX
(China)
We had a great time in China. Dennis and Elsie are
a blessing.
I will never forget the moment our mini-bus pulled away
from the White Swan and Dennis, who was going to meet his bus for a 10
hour ride back to Nanning, was standing there waving and you could see
his bottom lip beginning to quiver as he was trying so hard not to cry.
I am a pretty stoic guy, but that summed up our experience,
CHI
coordinators were happy to see us, served us
constantly, and were sad to
see us go......needless to say,
I just about lost it myself.
Anyway,
Lillie is doing great, she loves her brothers,
and they adore her.
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The Thompson Family, TN
(China)

We just
want to thank CHI for helping us each step of the way on our adoption
journey. There were so many "things" with each step and you all went
above and beyond and made sure we were taken care of. We are now home
with Kristina and the boys and her get along wonderfully. Thanks again.
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The Morris Family, TX (China)
I
want you to know that Madlynn is wonderful. She is so precious,
she has
a sweet spirit about her, and she is very social.
She fits in perfectly
with our family, because she loves to
go bye-bye and she is very
outgoing!
She
has adjusted beautifully to our home and to our immediate family,
and we
could not be happier. We are so blessed to have this beautiful
daughter
and our family is overjoyed.
Thank you
for asking about how we are doing. It really means a lot to us.
Also,
we had a wonderful time in China, and Dennis was fabulous.
He took care
of every detail for us, and we were so impressed
with him and with
Children's Hope!
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The Clanton Family, TN (Russia)
Glad to see you
again!

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The Trimm Family, KY (Russia,
Operation Hope)
It was a very
joyful moment on August 30, 2006, when Nadya, 14, finally joined her
three biological siblings. Her mom and dad, Cindy and Dennis Trimm, were
able to
bring her home two and a half years after they adopted Zhanna,
now 12, Natasha, 11, and Zhenya, 10. Zhanna traveled with her parents to
adopt her sister, and Natasha and Zhenya met them at the Nashville
airport upon arrival. They were also enthusiastically greeted by other
Operation Hope
families who adopted in Smolensk, Russia.
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The
von zur Muehlen Family, TN (Russia)

Ilse
has adapted well to moving to Memphis from St.
Louis. We have had her 2 1/2 years already. We adopted her from Novokuznetz, Kemerova.
She turned 3 on August 28th. Ilse enjoyed
celebrating her birthday with her four siblings.
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The Ware
Family, TN (China)

These
are from our recent beach trip and the first time Annslee
saw the ocean.
She LOVED it. One year ago today I was
on the phone with Brenda..getting "the call".
Looking forward to working with all of you again.
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The
Gilchrist Family, TX (China)


Thanks for
the welcome and messages.
It has been crazy here! The kids are great.
Audrey is AMAZING! She is such a sweet little girl and the adjustment
has been fairly easy.
Now…if I could just talk Harold into another one…
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The
Donovan Family, TN (Vietnam)
One of our first families to adopt from Vietnam in Tennessee!! Welcome home, Zackery David!

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Vietnam
Reception in St. Louis ~ September 17, 2006
We were blessed to have the opportunity to welcome our
representative Thuy and her husband, the orphanage director from Tam
Binh, and 2 officials from Vietnam to the United States this month. We
gathered in St. Louis for a luncheon celebrating the lives of the many
children who have been and will be placed with their forever families.
It was a joyous occasion with over one hundred adopted children, parents
and friends. There were many smiling faces and warm hugs. The
officials thanked us for our partnership with them and for giving their
children loving homes. We presented our guests with tokens of the
“south” and a scrapbook with pictures and notes from some of our
southeast families that have completed their adoptions. This was a
memorable occasion for all of us.


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Announcing CHI's New
Orphan Ministries and Church Outreach Programs
Children's Hope
International is very excited to let you know of a new and
wonderful program that is being developed at CHI.
We hear so often from
our adoptive parents that they want to do more, that they
feel they have "a calling" in their hearts to help orphans in need.
Our new church
outreach program will give families the opportunity to take
this fire in their hearts and do something truly wonderful with it.
We are now creating
Packets for Pastor's which will enable you to present Adoption
Awareness, Orphan Care, and Orphan Sponsorship to your church and/ or
community group.
We hope to bring
awareness to the 100 MILLION orphans who
need homes, health and hope in their lives.
If you have this fire
in your heart, and want to help bring
ORPHAN MINISTRIES into your church
or community group, please contact :
Michelle
Wehde Howdeshell
Director of Church and Community Outreach
michelle.howdeshell@childrenshope.net
(314) 812-1746
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A great
resource for China families...
The Parents and
Children's Chinese School (PCCS) has three Nashville locations and
offers some excellent classes for kids and parents. The Preschool class is
open to families with children 0- 6 years of age (up to 8 years old for
the Hermitage class) and waiting
families are also welcome to come and learn at the PCCS for a minimum
fee. Also offered is the TCIF (Talk Chinese It's
Friday) Language class for Beginners ( pre K - 2nd grade, or older
children with no or little background in Chinese) and TCIF Intermediate
(3rd grade - 7th grade). Josephine Huang is the
teacher for each of these programs. Josephine is a specialist of Early
Childhood Education, with two masters’ degrees in educational media and
technology.
Josephine also offers
translation services and private tutoring.
To find our more about these services,
check out the PCCS website
www.learnchinesetn.com.
You can contact Josephine at
josephine@vizion.com
or (615) 662-7420.
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New CHI Orphan Sponsorship Open!

Since the origins of Children's Hope in 1992, we have given time and
money to the needs of orphans wherever we have encountered them. As we
became increasingly aware of the immense needs of orphans worldwide, we
made the decision to establish an arm of our agency that would encourage
others to give as well, thus leveraging our own efforts. We wanted to
involve greater forces than our own in order to make a greater impact.
Our first
few years of fundraising effort produced some results, but ultimately
they were too meager to really meet the vast needs of orphans
worldwide. Direct mail, grant writing, one-time appeals, and "orphan
train" events all had their moments of exhilaration, but overall they
did not produce many dollars to give to children in need. So, after much
research and consideration, CHI has developed an orphan sponsorship
program to meet the needs of thousands more orphans worldwide.
Visit
http://orphan.childrenshope.net/
to see
how YOU can sponsor and orphan child.
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Upcoming Information Meetings
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October 21 |
Dossier Class |
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October 21 |
Travel Class |
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October 21 |
Pre-Adopt II |
12:30 -
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A MESSAGE FROM BRENDA BARKER
Fall is definitely in the air, and so much is happening at Children's
Hope! We are looking forward to seeing many families at our Walk
this Sunday as well! I do pray that you have enjoyed the wonderful
stories of happy families, and want you to know that we are here for you
when you are
ready to make this journey of love!
We don't want to burden
you with a lot of information, but we do want to help you if you are
looking for a way to adopt. If not, please let us know and we will
regretfully remove your name from our newsletter. E-mail me at my
address below with any question you have.
I would love
to hear from you.
Brenda

Southeastern U.S.
Brenda Barker,
Director
229 Ward Circle, Suite C-22
Brentwood, TN 37027
615-309-8109 Fax: 615-309-8483
brenda.barker@childrenshope.net
Also serving the following
states: TN, KY, GA, AL, AR, MS, VA,
LA & SC
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