Greeting & Happy Friday!
Here are some highlights of the week:

August 25, 2006
  • Containers arrived in China, Tanzania, Costa Rica (two), Nicaragua and the USA (for export)
  • Five containers are in route and six are being booked for ocean transport
  • Thirteen containers are on order

World Map of Wheelchair Distribution Next week we go to China. Part of the trip is to visit the factories that manufacture our wheelchairs.  Another part is to attend some very important meetings with the China Charity Foundation (CCF), a very large charity in China.  We will sign off a national campaign in Beijing, with a plan for them to distribute thousands of wheelchairs in the next six months.  They have agreed to work along side of the Christian Church of China, and this way wheelchair recipients will also hear that God loves them.  

Things in China are changing, and we are going to be part of this change!
Check out this note we just received:

First, let me introduce myself. I’m a quadriplegic doctor from Anshan, located in the Northeast of China. I once was a promising orthopedic surgeon in my hometown. But, it seems that just as my future was full of brightness, the disaster happened, which entirely changed my fate and faith. In May of 1997, I broke my neck in a diving accident while serving the Chinese government in the Republic of Yemen.

All of a sudden, my health was gone; all things that I had been striving for in the past years disappeared. I really could not find any reason to live in this world anymore. But at this very moment, God began His work in my life.

My quadriplegic body never prevents me from dreaming. As a quadriplegic doctor, I raise a sense of responsibility to work with people affected by disabilities in China. I am starting my ministry in my hometown, Anshan, a city with 110,000 people with various disabilities. Most of them are living in hard conditions, the poorest of the poor. I realize that, desperately, they both need practical help and spiritual support. I believe the best way for people to know Jesus is to not just hear about Him but to see He is living and loving!
  
During our work with the disabled people, we find too many of them just can not afford a wheelchair. Some of them have been confined in bed for years.The situation in rural areas is even worse. So, your mission is just a great encouragement to me. I look forward to receiving your wheelchairs.

Blessings,
Zhang Xu

 

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