China Harvest Ministries

China Harvest Ministries Jan. Newsletter

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:37:17 GMT

New Document January � February Newsletter, 2010

We had a wonderful 2009 Christmas here in Dalian. We are well into 2010, and expecting a wonderful year. Not all of the kids were able to make it home for Christmas, but all have returned for the winter holiday!

Sharing Our Faith:

Philemon 5��..Hearing of thy love and thy faith which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints; that the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.

On January 10th the kids began their winter holiday. They all came home from Universities, High School, and Vocational Tech School. They were relieved to have the winter break once again. This year there has been a major change in some of the kid�s lives. They were able to get jobs and work during the two month winter holiday.

They are shinning lights to their co-workers. Most would say here that it is impossible to get a job here, especially with being a student, as many people wouldn�t even consider hiring a student for two months.

Shekinah Joy is working in a factory, which provides dormitory living and one meal a day. There are 7 other girls sharing the dormitory with her. She is working ten � twelve hours a day. The work is hard, and many of the girls are easily discouraged. The dormitory mates comment that Shekinah Joy is fun to be with. They remark that she is always happy and her ring of laughter echoes out into the hallway, causing others to laugh and encouraging them to see the good things in life. Shekinah Joy is sharing her faith with the girls as she continuously has a good attitude and openly expresses her thankfulness to her Heavenly Father.

Gao Yan Ming is working in a local restaurant. He works ten hours a day. He has opportunities to display his honesty, and good character. He is eager to share his faith, and to tell what the Lord has done in his life.

Zhou Meng Sheng is tutoring 7th and 8th grade students. He tutors them in English, Physics and Chemistry. The parents of one of his students remarked about his integrity and work ethics and gave him about 5 pounds of fish. The parents are paying him by the hour, but are also blessing him with extra gifts because of his commitment to teach their children.

Wu Fu Gong is working in a local supermarket. His major in College is English, and he will be taking the Level 6 English test in March when he returns to school. The supermarket hired him to stock shelves. He will be graduating from university this summer and will find a permanent job and start out in life.

All of these kids return to school on March 6th. Their days are long, and the pay is little. They have to work for one month before they receive a pay check. They earn between $.29 and $1.00 an hour. There are many students here who wouldn�t work for those wages, but the kids believe that whatever they put their hands to will prosper.

Teaching English:
During the holiday season here, which is called Spring Festival, (China�s biggest festival of the year,) I have been asked to teach English. It is �Intensive English� which is a three week course. It has opened doors and given me opportunities to share my faith as well with the head of the school and the children.

Spring Festival:
Spring Festival begins on February 13th and lasts for ten days. We will be celebrating the festival together as a family. It�s been traditional for us to wrap jiaozi (a special kind of dumpling) on the Eve of the Festival, and then have a special supper. After supper everyone participates in games and activities, and then settles down to watch the TV specials. At 12:00 midnight the Chinese New Year is brought in with fireworks, along with cooking the jioazi that was previously wrapped. It is traditional to eat the jiaozi shortly after midnight. This is a long time family tradition that has been celebrated throughout history here in this country.

Our Appreciation:
We want you to know we appreciate all of you. We appreciate your love, prayers, and support that you extend to us on a daily basis. You have been a part in helping the kids here, and will have life long results. Your gift of love that you have sown will truly go on and on! Thank You for standing with us, for helping us, and for wrapping your arms around each one of these kids. Thank you for all that you�ve done to see the Kingdom of God advance in their lives and the lives of others.

2 Corinthians 9:8-9 says, �And God is able to make all grace abound towards you, that ye always having all sufficiency in all things may abound to every good work: (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he has given to the poor: His righteousness remaineth forever.)� Your prayers and financial support is definitely abounding to �every good work!�

Rick Haynes
China Harvest Ministries

Thief returns cell phone.

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:52:08 GMT

The thief returns the cell phone!! About two weeks ago, my wife �Joy� was on the bus in Dalian China where we live. The bus was so crowded as it was bitter cold outside. A man stuck his hand in my wife�s purse and stole her cell phone. When she got off the bus and into a store she was going to call one of the Chinese orphans we care for.

We call them our children and they call us grandma and grandpa. We have 13 children altogether. Joy finally noticed her cell phone was gone and knew it was stolen. So she went back to the apartment and one of our girls who is studying to be a nurse, called the house. "Grandma, she said, where have you been, I have been trying to call you". Joy said "someone stole my cell phone on the bus". So Xu Ling ( sounds like Shoe Ling) called Joy�s cell number. A man answered the phone. Xu Ling said "you stole that phone from my grandma; she needs that phone as she cares for 13 children and she needs it". The man hung up.

Xu Ling calls another girl and all the other children. They start calling the man. "That is my grandma�s phone, you must give it back". "She doesn�t have the money for another". Those precious kids pestered that thief until he said, �I will bring it back, it is too much trouble�. That is what he did. That will teach him to steal from Grandma Joy.

Rick Haynes- President and CEO
China Harvest Ministries
http://chinaharvest.org
http://chinaharvestministries.com

Heinze Angus Ranch

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:13:50 GMT

Top quality registered Black Angus Cattle. Donny Heinze is raising some of the best bred Angus cattle in Texas. He is using the top producing Angus sires in the ABS program to AI his top quality dams with.

Donny is also a distributer of Elite Trailers. Gooseneck trailers any way you want it.

Donny Heinze
Heinze Angus Ranch
Tuscola, Texas 254-977-3605
http://heinzeangusranch.com

Update on China Orphans

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 08:48:23 GMT

New Document THis is Han Xiao and she came to us as a Chinese orphan in 2000 and Has been with us 9 years now.
She is enrolled in a 3year Computer Course, learning computer programming. This is her first year. She has adjusted very well and has found favor with many of her classmates and teachers. She is a very happy girl, and has a heart to help others.

> This is Zhou Li. She was also a China orphan that came to Us in 2000.
Zhou Li and Han Xiao both attend the same school. Zhou Li is in her third year and will graduate in July. Her teachers consider her to be a good example to other girls in her class, as she is very modest, and also loving and kind to all she meets.

Rick Haynes
China Harvest Ministries
First Family

This is Yu Qing Qiao

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:20:15 GMT

New Document This is Yu Qing Qiao

YQQ came to us when she was about 8years old. In 2000, China Harvest Ministries opened an orphanage in Dalian China. Both of her parents were dead and she only had an old grandfather who was very poor. So we took her in and have her for nine years now. She is a senior in high school and is studying hard to finish school. After she finishes high school, she will go to a trade school and learn a trade to be able to work.

There are many Ministries working all over China. They are all doing a good job spreading the good news. We are thankful to be one of them.

Rick Haynes
China Harvest Ministries
China Harvest Ministries Blog
Heinze Angus Ranch

Original prints from Liu Xian Sheng

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:29:58 GMT

Original Prints from Liu Xian Sheng

In September 2000, China Harvest Ministries opened an orphanage in Dalian China. Liu Xian Sheng ( sounds like Leo She-en Shung), was one of 16 children that came to the orphanage. Both of his parents were dead and his relatives could not care for him.

Through the years , LXS has always liked drawing and painting. He studied art vigorously all through middle school and high school. He was the best art student in Dalian Kai Fa Qu. His school even paid for him to go to Beijing twice to study art there for several weeks.

This year he started his first year of university. During this past summer LXS painted all day everyday. We are selling some of his art prints to pay for his tuition and room and board. These pictures can be seen at China Harvest Ministries. Some people are buying two or three of them at a time.

Rick Haynes
China Harvest Ministries
254-592-2900
http://chinaharvestministries.com
http://bigtex52.1-family.com

Ministries in China

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:40:20 GMT

Ministries in China

China Harvest Ministries has been in China since August of 1995. Rev. Rick and Joy Haynes moved to Beijing in 1995 and began studying the Chinese language. In 1997, they moved to the medical university in Shenyang which is the capital of the Liao Ning Province.

In 2000 China Harvest Ministries opened an orphanage in Dalian China with the cooperation of the Chinese Government. Mr. Wang Yong Sheng of Kai Fa Qu received the license for the orphanage and appointed Rick and Joy to be managers. They gathered 16 Chinese orphans and still care for 13 of them today.

There are many ministries operating China today. Some help orphans and others feed the poor and still others bring in medical teams and give free medical clinics.

Rick Haynes
China Harvest Ministries
http://chinaharvest.org
http://heinzeangusranch.com

Can You help this China orphan?

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:50:03 GMT

Can you help this China orphan?

This is Shekinah Joy.

She is a Chinese orphan that came to the orphanage outside of Dalian, China back in September 2000. She was 6 years old when she came and was very small from being malnourished. Her father died first then she cared for her sick mother. Her mother had cancer and Shekinah would take her mothers cloths to the half frozen river and wash the blood out of them. Her hands and face was like leather from weather exposure.

Her mother died of the cancer and she came to live at the orphanage. Her skin began to heal after many months of good food and skin care. Rick and Joy Haynes, founders of China Harvest Ministries, worked with the government and started the orphanage in Sept. 2000.

Shekinah has always laughed and giggled. Her Chinese name is Han Xiao. It means little laughing one. It sure fits her. She is in the 10th grade now and doing well. If you would like to help support her with finances, please contact China Harvest Ministries. Po Box 2074 Broken Arrow, Oklahoma 74013 U.S.A.

Rick Haynes � President and CEO
254-592-2900
http://chinaharvest.org
http://bigtex52.1-family.com

Chinese Lantern Festival

Sun, 08 Feb 2009 08:32:11 GMT

The Chinese Lantern Festival

It falls on the 15th day of the first month of the Lunar Year. The Lantern Festival takes place on a full moon, and marks the end of Chinese New Year festivities. The Lantern Festival dates back to shrouded legends of the Han Dynasty over 2000 years ago.

The most popular food for the Chinese Lantern Festival is a kind of sweet dumpling made of glutinous rice or wheat flour. Joy and the kids at the orphanage are making these dumplings for the festival. The Chinese name of this dish is (Yuanxiao)

Where did the festival originate:
We are not sure but there is one legend that the Jade Emperor in Heaven was so angered at a town for killing his favorite goose, that he decided to destroy it with a storm of fire. But, a good fairy heard of this storm of fire, and warned the people of the town to light lanterns throughout the town on the appointed day. The towns people did as they were told, and from the Heavens, it looked as if the whole village was on fire. Satisfied that his goose had already been avenged, the Jade Emperor decided not to burn the town. From that day on, people celebrated the anniversary of their deliverance by carried lanterns of different shapes and colors through the streets on the first full moon of the year.

When you go out in the streets, red lanterns are everywhere and fireworks are going off again.

Rick Haynes � President and CEO
China Harvest Ministries
http://chinaharvest.org
http://helping-china-orphans.com
http://chinaharvest.wordpress.com

This is Xu Huan Huan

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 12:23:25 GMT

This is Xu Huan Huan

Her name sounds like ( Shoe Hwan Hwan ).

XHH is a China orphan along with her older sister Xu Ling. She came to the orphanage about a year or so after it was open. I am not sure how their parents died but they were orphans. The welfare department asked if we would take them in and w did. She was just about to start the first grade when they came. What a little cutie she was and still is. When she talked, she would peep like a bird. So faint you could hardly hear her. Now she is in the eighth grade. XHH is very intelligent and does well in school. It takes about $800 a year to care for her and pay her school fees.

Would you be willing to help sponsor her? Can you help? Here is a photo album of XHH. Just click on picture.

Xu Huan Huan

Rick Haynes � President and CEO
China Harvest Ministries
254-592-2900
http://chinaharvest.org
http://helping-china-orphans.com

Poor Chinese boy becomes a man

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:30:18 GMT

New Document

This is a story about Peng Peng ( Pung Pung), a poor Chinese boy who became a man.

In the summer of 2000 my wife Joy and I heard from a group of reporters in Kai Fa Qu China, that there was a very poor man and his son living in the mountains of the Zhan He area in the Liao Ming Province. These reporters cried as they talked about this man and his son. The man�s wife had left him after he had a stroke and it was just him and his son Peng Peng. We wanted to meet them so one of the reporters took us up there and we met the man and his son. The man was paralyzed on one side and couldn�t work. They had no food and the house they lived in, had no windows but plastic over the window openings. It was freezing outside and the river near by was frozen. The floor was just dirt.

Peng Peng was about 7 years old and was caring for his father. He gathered wood in the freezing cold for his neighbors to make a little money and he washed his father�s cloths in the freezing river. He also walked 5 miles back and forth to school. When we visited them, we took them some rice and oil and told them we were going to open an orphanage soon and we would hire him to be a guard or something. The man cried as he needed some help.

In about a month we returned to get the man and his son. We noticed he wasn�t limping any more. He had regained his strength on his paralyzed side since we had seen him last. We offered him the job of cooking for the 16 Chinese orphans we had gathered. We paid for Peng Peng�s school and he fit in along with the other kids. He did well in School and they lived there about two years. His father decided to leave one day and took Peng Peng with him.

We didn�t see him for a few years and he called and said his father had died and he was working in a bread company. A few years later he called and wanted to join the army and ask if we could help him pay the entrance fee. We gave him the amount and he joined the army. He just got out of the army and called Joy and he still calls her grandma. He came to visit Joy and all the kids. He is a man now and will have no trouble getting a job as the Chinese treat their solders well.

This is a picture of Peng Peng today.

Rick Haynes- President and CEO
China Harvest Ministries
http://chinaharvest.org
http://helping-china-orphans.com

Chinese New Years

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:32:53 GMT

Chinese New Years with our China Orphans

Joy and I have lived in China since August 1995 and have seen many Chinese New Years Come and go. It has been special these last 8 years as we have enjoyed it with the Chinese orphans we support and care for.

Travel: This year, Jan 26 is Chinese New Year. Millions of people travel during this time by bus and train. The train stations are packed and people try to buy tickets days ahead of time. Some can't even get tickets. Many have to stand in the isle for hours or days to get home. It is very important for them to go home and be with family.

To Chinese It is there most important holiday. But Christians consider the holiday second after Christmas. It is similar to Christmas as the family gathers and has good food. Every year the kids at the orphanage along with my wife Joy make Jiaozi or dumplings. It is a tradition. It usually has pork, cabbage, vegetable and spices. They are very delicious. They boil them in water and you dip them in soy sauce with garlic. Other good foods are enjoyed such as tangerines, fruits and different snacks. Then they watch special Chinese shows with singing and comedy. They are glued to the TV.

Fire works:
I have never seen such fireworks as they have on Chinese New Years. The fireworks they use would blow a hand right off. It sounds like a bombing during a war and is constant for hours. All the cars alarms are going off. You can�t even hear a friend talk next to you. If you live on the 6th floor as many do, it sounds like the windows will blow out.
The next morning you can go out and red paper from the fireworks cover the streets and everything. It is very interesting. People spend a lot of money for fireworks.

Rick Haynes
China Harvest Ministries
http://helping-china-orphans.com
http://chinaharvest.org

Helping China Orphans

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:10:20 GMT

Hello Everyone I have just started a new website called "Helping China Orphans". As you know we have an organization called China Harvest Ministries located in broken Arrow, Oklahoma. My name is Rick Haynes and I am the president and CEO. My wife Joy and I founded China Harvest Ministries in Sept 2000. We feed the poor in China and care for 14 Chinese orphans. We consider them our children and they consider us their grandparents. Have a look at our new site and watch the video. http://helping-china-orphans.com http://chinaharvest.org Rick Haynes China Harvest Ministries

China Orphans Video

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:45:24 GMT