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Happy Holidays from TCH

Dickson County High School Interact Club Hopes Bracelet Sale Will Help Chinese Orphans

When Kelsey Allen spent 10 months on a missionary trip to China with her parents last year, the Dickson County High School senior came back to Dickson, Tennessee with her own mission. Kelsey wants to do all she can to help raise money for special needs orphans at True Children’s Home to receive medical care they desperately need. So she took her idea to the school’s Interact Club sponsor, Rhonda Owens, and now the idea has reached from the club to the community.

Phil Corbin, a Dickson High Noon Rotarian and employee at Tennsco, took Kelsey’s goal to Stuart Speyer, president of Tennsco, who had a great plan. The company will match dollar for dollar all the money the students earn from selling bracelets.

	The Interact Club decided to purchase the bracelets in orange and blue with the phrase, “DCHS Makes a Difference” imprinted on them. The High Noon Rotary club presented a $300 check on Wednesday as start up money to buy the bracelets.

	The plan is for the bracelets to go on sale right before Christmas break and continue through next spring. The bracelets can be purchased at the high school or from any Interact Club member. All proceeds from the sale of the bracelets will be sent to China to help orphans at True Children’s Home receive the medical care they need.

	“When we heard about this, we thought it was a good way to encourage the students with their mission,” Corbin said, adding that Tennsco’s president also “felt it was a worthy cause to get behind.”
Kelsey Allen (back row, center)

Programs

Children’s Home Program
New Children Welcomed



Yuan (boy) born November 2007 Abandoned in Guangdong Province Cleft lip/palate		Hua (girl) born January 2007 Abandoned in Guangdong Province A mass on the lumbosacral portion

Medical Care Program


Hui, club foot surgery	Ni, cleft palate surgery	Sha, cleft lip surgery


Di, cleft palate surgery	Xu, cleft lip surgery	Zhi, cleft palate surgery

Foster Care Program



Jun		Zhi
	Men

True Hero

There are many people working together to make a difference in the lives of children that come to TCH.
Each month we will spotlight one of those individuals as our True Hero.


Dr. Li (left) and staff		Dr. Li examines a TCH child

When we began searching for a skilled oral and maxillofacial surgeon to perform cleft lip/palate surgery on orphans that come to TCH, Dr. Li at Tung Wah Hospital in Dongguan was highly recommended to us. Dr. Li has been practicing medicine at Tung Wah Hospital since 2003 where he has performed more than 400 surgeries. Dr. Li is from Shandong Province and has studied medicine in China and the U.S. We have found Dr. Li to be a very skilled surgeon and also passionate and caring as he has performed more than 40 surgeries on children at TCH.

Thank you Dr. Li and your medical team at Tung Wah Hospital for helping to make a difference in the lives of children that have come to TCH. You are a True Hero!

Adoption

CHINA: A JOURNEY THAT WILL CHANGE
YOUR HEART FOREVER…
By Kathy Storro
Waiting Child Direction and China Specialist
Small World Adoption

Working together with True Children’s Home: When we receive a list of children who have special needs (Waiting Child List), one of the first things that we do is to try to find if these children have been in the care of or had assistance with their medical needs by a care group from outside who are working within China. We know that the level of care that children have received will make a HUGE difference in their early life through their dedication and commitment.

True Children’s Home is one of those groups. The care and love that they give the children is excellent! With the assistance that we receive from Jenny and Katrina in getting information, updates, pictures, etc., of these children, we know that not only

the child, but the whole adoptive family will have a MUCH better adjustment and attachment.		Xiang

Our last list had 5 children who had been in their care. Four of these children found their families very quickly! Prospective parents also see and know the difference this makes in these children.

“Xiang” from True Is Still Waiting! Would a precious two year old boy fit into YOUR family? He has recently had additional hearing tests and is waiting for a family to help him! Please contact me at the e-mail address below if you feel that you might be his family or would just like more information about him.

My Adoption Story or “Is Nine Enough?” When I played “house” as a child, I would pretend that my children were adopted. I didn’t even know what adoption was! Before my husband and I were married, we talked about adopting. We didn’t know then that we were being prepared for how our family was to be formed.

After being married for five years, we found that we had infertility issues. We were then blessed to adopt two daughters at birth, and three children who were older, all through domestic adoption.

On November 15, 1998, as I started to watch a film on the Persecuted Church, God spoke to my heart. In that still small voice, He let me know that we were to go to China, bring home a baby girl and raise her for Him! Our first five children were grown, or in their late teens. Dick was 49 and I was 47. We were looking forward to becoming “empty nesters.” But, God had a different plan!

We knew nothing about adoption from China. As I started to find out more and more about the situation with the children in China, we developed an immense passion to help them. This passion only intensified with our trip to China. We saw the children in the orphanages. They needed homes and families here needed to experience the love that having these children in your home can bring. I was sure that just as we had been called, others would be too! Our journey to China had changed our hearts forever!

In 1999, I started helping other families bring home their children from China. The children have done wonderfully and are loved so much! Our daughters each did so well that we now have four daughters from China! Our youngest, “Hope,” was one of Small World’s Waiting Children from our program for children with special needs. Her need was orthopedic and she now has a prosthetic leg.

Dick and I, (who couldn’t “have” children) have been blessed with nine beautiful children!! With the change in the guidelines from China this year, there will not be 10. BUT, we are so thankful for our daughters from China and to the Chinese for allowing us to be their mom and dad!

We at Small World would LOVE to help you with the adoption process. You can contact us at (509) 892- 6789 or e-mail Kathy@swa.net.

There are many adoption agencies helping families to bring home a child from China. You can locate other agencies on the web. You might want to ask others who have adopted for references.

Every child deserves a family! Maybe you, like my husband and I, have felt called to go. When you are a child needing a family, every day counts. There would be no better gift for a child and for your family this Christmas than to make a commitment to adopt. If I can help you in any way, please just let me know!

Kathy, Dick and their four Chinese daughters

More Successful Adoptions

Mu and his new family from the U.S.

Cai and her new family from China

Many Thanks

The Brazilian Women recently had a Charity Event and collected funds and supplies
for the children at TCH. A good time was had by all at this fabulous gala!

Vital Statistics

Children who received care—57

Surgeries performed—57

Children transitioned to foster care—33

Children adopted—9

True Children’s home relies on donations from individuals, organizations and corporations. One hundred percent of donated funds goes into one of our four programs: children’s home, medical care, foster care or community outreach.

True Children’s Home is affiliated with China Care foundation, a 501c3 non-profit organization. Donations to
TCH are completely tax deductible. All administrative expenses are underwritten by Alan and Twila True.

If you would like more information on how you can help, contact us at info@truechildrenshome.org or visit our website at www.truechildrenshome.org.

For monetary donations, please make the check payable to China Care Foundation. In the Memo/For section of the check write “True Children’s Home.” All checks must be drawn on a U.S. bank. Send your check to True Children’s Home, c/o True North America, P.O. Box 51057, Irvine, CA 92619-1057.

Working together we can make a difference in the lives of children...one child at a time!