Hard Choices - by Chris Schave, CE Adviser in China

A couple days ago the coordinator left and brought back a boy, two girls, and their mother. She was giving her children to the orphanage. Most of the time she had a look on her face as if she was contemplating her decision. Then, we would randomly catch eyes and I would smile, then she would smile back. That was about the only time I really saw her with a smile on her face. She came up to me and started speaking, but I don’t speak Mandarin, so I didn’t know what she was saying. One of the men came over and explained that she was explaining how knew she was making a good decision because I would teach them English so they could make something of themselves one day.