Deborah, Dorja, and Petal were found abandoned on the street by one of our team members when they were just infants.  These perfectly healthy girls were probably abandoned because their parents wanted sons.  We wonder sometimes, that if their parents could see them now, whether they would regret abandoning them because these girls are bursting with laughter and love, and are just about the cutest things ever created by God.  For the past several years we have been caring for them at the Langfang Children’s Village while we worked to get them adopted.  While here, we all fell in love with them and hoped that their every dream would come true.  We are happy to report that last month their dreams did come true when we were able to tell them that their moms and dads were coming to adopt them.  Petal was the first to go, and was adopted by a French speaking family from Quebec, Canada.  About two weeks later, Dorja and Deborah were also adopted to families from the United States.  This was, of course, a bittersweet experience for all of our team to have to say goodbye to these darling girls.  Having our hearts broken every once in a while is an occupational hazard of our work at LCV and one that we will never be able to escape from.  What an odyssey these girls have experienced in their short lives.  Abandoned as infants, things looked pretty hopeless for them at the beginning.  But God had not forgotten about them and saw to it that they found their way into the care of PHF’s Langfang Children’s Village.  And so their life situation was transformed from a tragically hard life to one full of love and promise.  These girls are living examples of the work of the Philip Hayden Foundation, which is providing hope for China’s orphaned children.