It was a fine day with blue sky and white clouds. There in the early morning, parents gather and wait eagerly for the bus. Some had arrived an hour early.
Parents shake hands, hug each other, and share about life. It’s as if family members had been reunited after a long time of separation. During the long drive, exuberant chatter can be heard throughout the bus. After more than an hour drive, the bus stops in the countryside at the edge of an apple orchard.
Parents pick apples, collect wild vegetables, and take photos of each other. Laughter dances through the air. After lunch, parents are taken to a nearby park to enjoy the beauty of the autumn day. Everyone is in high spirits. Some mothers sing and dance their way down the path.
They begin to open up with each other about the challenges of life with disabled children, the joys and sorrows, and some with tears in their eyes, their hope for their children’s health and a better life. Many express their gratitude for the enjoyable outing and some say they wish they could freeze this beautiful moment.
Day after day, year after year, these mothers devote their lives to their children. They face privation and discrimination but choose to bear it silently, just as Christ did for us.
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Rehabilitation Ministry
WHO WE ARE
A rehabilitation ministry that provides resources and care for people with disabilities in China.
Suffering from congenital diseases or injuries from industry or traffic accidents, most people with disabilities in China live in poverty. Except for those injured in working settings, most disabled people have no fixed income and can only live on the lowest life subsidy from the government, which is hardly enough for their daily needs.
Elevator and handicap services are not readily available in public and residential buildings so the majority of those with mobility limitations stay at home, isolated from society. Many who are paralyzed cannot afford a wheelchair and live in bed. Few disabled children and adults alike can afford to pay for rehabilitation therapy.
While efforts have been made in the past few years by the government and the Chinese Disabled People’s Federation to help people with disabilities, they still remain some of the poorest citizens in both the cities and rural areas of China.
Pray for God to lift up the spirits of the neediest in China, bring them to a knowledge of Himself, give them friendship, and move believers to obey God’s command to lovingly care for these poor among them.
WHO WE SERVE
This ministry serves poor families in China who are affected by disabilities, especially in mountainous regions.
Pray for God to continue to provide the resources and manpower to provide for the disabled poor in the mountains of China.
FOCUSED PROJECT
Working collaboratively with charitable groups and individuals, the focus of this project is to donate (primarily) wheelchairs to people with disabilities in and around a poor region in Northern China.
Through this project so far, more than 1,500 wheelchairs and some other assistive instruments, such as prosthetics and orthotics, walkers, crutches, and canes, have been donated to people with disabilities in this region.
The cost to provide one wheelchair is $135.
Pray that God would expand this ministry and enable them to provide wheelchairs for every disabled person in this region of China, as well encourage their caretakers with the love of Christ.
Prayerfully consider donating one or more wheelchairs to this project!