Henry - He might look like just any other kid in the loud bunch of 30 migrant children in Shanghai.  He did not attempt to get our attention.  He followed what we told him to do.  Over time, these characteristics helped me see more and more each day why he was so special.  When we asked him to draw what he wanted to be when he grew up, many kids were ashamed or did not have any ideas.  They did not want to draw anything out of the norm in fear of being doubted or laughed at.  Many girls copied each other and drew a nurse or singer.  The boys drew policemen.  While Henry turned in his paper, I took a close look at it: "When I grow up, I want to be a doctor."  A quiet boy with big ambitions, he was.  

      The last day was when these kids touched me tremendously, and Henry helped me to see more the capacity of these children to receive and give love.  During lunch, the kids quickly shoved food down their mouth so they can quickly go outside to play and run around.  The last lunch, I was eating slowly and turned around, Henry was already finished with lunch.  Confused I asked him, are you full? Aren't you going outside to play?  He shyly replied, "This is your last day...I want to say here with you guys."  I folded origami with him and the kids in the classroom.  It turned out that the boys saved their snack change to pitch in and buy me a beautiful set of inked pens.  Henry started to lead his friends in our group to listen more to me and my co-teacher.  I am very proud of Henry and I will never forget the migrant kids in Shanghai.

 Here is a map of Gansu Province (Northwest China), one of the poorest rural regions in China.  To give you a better understanding, we are trying to provide surgery for all 6000 children suffering from congenital heart disease in Gansu Province.

Many updates and exciting programs are underway.  I will be working hard this week to setup our major campaigns.  By request of our volunteers, they would like to start the EV China Points Challenge campaign as soon as possible.

I've also received requests from Sino Canada Culture Association to have the programs for the Little Red Scarf up on EV as soon as possible so they can involve their chinese schools in pen pal and christmas cards project.

A few surprise contests for high school students will start soon as well!

Stay Tuned!

Happy New Years from the Chao Foundation

365 DAYS OF LOVE: DAY 0 ~ I GIVE TWO BAGS OF FRUIT TO TWO RANDOM STRANGERS... HOW IT HAPPENED WAS UNPLANNED, ALL GOD, AND IT MADE MY DAY! READ THE STORY ON MY BLOG (WWW.JAESONMA.COM) WHAT IS 365 DAYS OF LOVE ABOUT? 

READ BELOW...

365 DAYS OF LOVE ~ JMA

My new years resolution for 2010 is to live out love 365 days by doing one act of kindness for every day of the year. I'm realizing that its one thing to talk about love, its a whole other thing to live it. I must practice what I preach, not just talk about it, but be about it. Hopefully, I can achieve this goal with your support, prayers and help. I'll do my best and let God do the rest. 

365 DAYS OF LOVE ~ HOW WILL IT WORK? 
Each day I will post on my blog www.jaesonma.com an act of love that I did for the day. It could be anything, I won't know till I see what each day of opportunities brings before me. So for 6 days each week (Monday-Saturday) I will post a text blog on how I put love into action. Each Sunday, I will post a video blog of a random act of kindness I did for the day. 

Stay tuned... I hope that my little acts of love will inspire others to put their love into action also. Let's spread the love this year to as many people as possible. Love all we can, to as many people as we can, whenever we can, because to live is to love. 

Love,

JMA

An invitation and a challenge

To:          All Christian health professionals, students and others -

who have the hearts to serve in a short term medical mission in China

By:          American Medical and Dental Services (AMDS)

Date:     June 28 through July 4, 2010

Place:    Yunnan, China

Introduction:

AMDS – founded in 2005 as a non-profit (501c3) organization with the vision to call Christian health professionals, students and others to provide medical service to the poor, locally and abroad, especially those in rural China.

Services - AMDS has organized numerous free clinics and health fairs in northern and southern California since early 2006.  AMDS has also formed short term medical mission teams to Yunnan, China during the summers of 2006, 2007 and 2008.

Our Philosophy – the vision of AMDS is to serve and share the love of God, based on our Christian faith.  Non-Christians are also welcome to join us with the understanding that this is our philosophy.

Mission experiences – During each of the summer short term mission trips, AMDS served more than two thousand patients in the farming communities in Yunnan, China.  Our team physicians and professionals were invited by the local governmental and health officials with full temporary license to practice.  Our professionals also had the opportunity to interact with local physicians and health personnel.  Our team doctors further served as mentors of US medical students on our team.  Many of our team members have returned for repeat trips because they were deeply blessed by the mission work.

Events for 2010 – AMDS has been invited by the governmental and health officials in Yunnan, China to bring another short term mission team in the summer of 2010.   A number of free clinics are also planned to be held in local churches and community centers in northern and southern California.

 

The invitation:

        AMDS extends a sincere invitation to all who have the hearts to serve the less privileged in Yunnan, China.   We are sure that you will be as richly blessed as those who have served with us before.  You will be serving two days in a church in the city of Dali and five days in XiangYun County.  There may be an options to join and lead smaller teams of 5 or 6 students to visit smaller villages afterwards.    You will also have an opportunity to visit some of the beautiful landscape and sceneries in Yunnan.  The team will be staying in clean hotels with adequate amenities.

The Challenge:

`I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.'

Students:

      Come work with our professionals for the experience of a life-time.

 

Come, Join us!      

 

For more information –

Please contact:
 

Dr. Joel Doughten
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jddoughten@yahoo.com

 

We're going home.  This is our last day Beijing, and it is snowing heavily! It looks so beautiful from our hotel window.  Flakes are falling and are hearts are singing! Thank you G for the gift! 

The Great Wall was beautiful.  Peter loved it!  

And I had a birthday party - I didn't know what to expect but Lifu and Xiaoyan planned it for me and it turned out to be so much fun.  So much food and traditional Chinese birthday noodles and many food I have never seen before.  They also got me a wonderful cake and a birthday hat that I wore the entire time.

Afterwards, we were so tired from a whole day of touring and just crashed.