UPDATE:
Supporters,

Deadline is up and all the boxes (and donated t-shirts) are in! I wanted to personally thank you, on behalf of myself and the kids. Wow…I am overwhelmed! When the idea first popped into our heads, we just thought it would be nice to donate some toys in an old, [beat up] shoe box to kids that really would appreciate an overabundance of love, especially on a day that celebrates their lives. No way did I imagine you would put so much time and HEART into [and outside] these boxes. I feel each of these boxes are bursting with love…and how amazing it will be to see the kids open these boxes and feel that love from some stranger thousands of miles away, from a country they know so little about.

We’ve all heard of planting seeds in people’s hearts. Well, some people come from backgrounds so hurtful and have lives littered with disappointment after disappointment and abandonment after abandonment that they don’t even have fertile soil for those seeds to take root. I truly believe small acts of love, like this you are showing, are ways of putting that soil back…little by little.

I hope to keep you updated on the trip through our blog. I hope to take plenty of pictures, of each kid receiving and/or opening their boxes. I hope you were, are, and will be blessed through this Boxed Love project. We will be taking off for China on May 29th, stay tuned! Again, THANNNKKKKK YOUUU!!!

Blog: http://www.givingbacklife.org/blog/
Pictures: http://public.fotki.com/dll15151/yu-lin-china-2010/

Always looking up,
Daniel Lui

Your amazing boxes:

Video we will show during the National Children’s Day ceremony (Chinese):