This would certainly describe the dear lady pictured above and her husband, who has given the church a large amount of beautiful hand-painted porcelain from their business they are closing down here in Hong Kong as they are immigrating to Canada. When I heard they were donating porcelain to non-profit groups, I inquired as to whether we could be a beneficiary to raise proceeds for three orphanages near and dear to our hearts, and that would be where Zoe, Maddie Rae, and Ellen spent the early part of their lives. We weren't exactly sure of the amount to be given us, as Josephine and Arthur chose the items, but when we walked into the store, we were completely overwhelmed at the amount that they indicated was all ours!! My thought was that we were going to be there a very, very long time. Not too long after we began packing, it was obvious that we didn't have near enough boxes, so after a couple of phone calls to our dear friend Lam, who donated the truck to ship all of these boxes from the warehouse to the church, we received a delivery of 50 more boxes, in addition to our 40 that were there already. After four hours of packing, we had 70 - yes, that is 7-0 - boxes!! The sale is on Tuesday and Saturday, so pray with us that it will be a success and we won't be looking for locations to store boxes of porcelain, but rather able to send much-needed money to these childrens' welfare homes.
This little angel is Wren, who is living in Hefei, Anhui, where Ellen was born. My friend Retta is her sponsor, and it is our hope and prayer that we would be able to earn enough from the sale to pay for a surgery for one or more of the children born with a cleft lip and pallet, so that one day they will be as beautiful as this other little angel, Maddie Rae Fuman Kelley!
Though the packing was hard work, we managed to have some fun. . .
Sandy and Retta doing their "Vanna pose."
Josephine's husband, Arthur. Both of them stayed right there with us packing and bringing us newspapers, tape, putting boxes together - they have incredible stamina!
The porcelain-packin' crew, minus Sandy, who is on the other end of the camera.
Jeanette, Nicki and Sally working away.
This little angel is Wren, who is living in Hefei, Anhui, where Ellen was born. My friend Retta is her sponsor, and it is our hope and prayer that we would be able to earn enough from the sale to pay for a surgery for one or more of the children born with a cleft lip and pallet, so that one day they will be as beautiful as this other little angel, Maddie Rae Fuman Kelley!
Though the packing was hard work, we managed to have some fun. . .
Sandy and Retta doing their "Vanna pose."
Josephine's husband, Arthur. Both of them stayed right there with us packing and bringing us newspapers, tape, putting boxes together - they have incredible stamina!
The porcelain-packin' crew, minus Sandy, who is on the other end of the camera.
Jeanette, Nicki and Sally working away. 
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I lifted some of your pictures for our blog. Hope you don't mind :) I need a new lense!!!!
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