Josiah Daniell Cutts is Born

Our First Grand child is here. Announcing the Birth of Josiah Daniel Cutts September 19, 2008 Great News! Mother, father, and son are doing well. Josiah is our first grand child and the son of our oldest son. My husband and I are happy to hold him at last. Josiah is named for an ancient king of Israel and for a wise man, Daniel, who was a counselor and understood dreams and visions. One of the books of the Bible is named for Daniel. He was born at 8:27 on Friday morning.

Charity Auction

Blessing Hands News September, 2008

Charity Auction Plans Three Morehead State University students have volunteered to help us with a charity auction at Chinese New Year. They are taking a class and wanted to include volunteer hours as a part of it. Andy O'Brien, Casey Hufford, and Jacob Mattox are spending their free time searching for addresses of celebrities online and sending out letters asking for autographed items to feature in a silent auction at the New Year celebration of the Kentucky Chinese American Association in Lexington, Kentucky. Some Chinese friends have helped translate letters to send to famous Chinese asking for autographed items. I will mail them while I am in Hong Kong and China the next two weeks. Some of our college students in China have also written to Chinese celebrities and Olympic stars asking for autographs and items to sell. The students in China are painting pictures and doing calligraphy to offer at the auction. We have even thought of putting Chinese characters on small stones. Some of the professional artists in Yangshuo, China are also sending paintings for the auction. Yangshuo is an artist center and has many talented artists. I will bring the paintings back when I return from China on October 9th. A Bible study group in Lexington is also willing to help us with some of the volunteer jobs for the auction. They are willing to ask Lexington restaurants and businesses for items to feature in the auction and help with posters and advertising for the silent auction. Paintings for Sale to Benefit Blessing Hands Elaine Yeh Helps Blessing Hands Students . Elaine sends the kids a tithe from paintings she sells and also from her job. She has a wonderful giving Christian heart and is a blessing hand to many. This painting is wonderful. She is creating another painting especially for the silent auction. This one is so recent that she asked me to give it a name. I can put you in contact with Elaine if you are interested in buying this painting. Mike Rayburn, a photographer who would like to help our Blessing Hands students, is offering photos for the silent auction. He has taught in China and knows the needs of the students there. He is planning to offer photographs that people can choose to be framed. I went to see his recent show and wondered why his photos of Yangshuo looked so much better than mine. Linda Brewer is also giving a painting to the auction. Linda is a professional artist who has a studio at the Rowan County Arts Center. She is a sponsor of a Blessing Hands college scholarship student. Alice Deng lacks only $220 Four different sponsors have given toward Alice's $500 Scholarship. She just lack a little more. Will you help her? Google Checkout donation will let you give any amount. Huang writes that he urgently needs help Huang is already at his vocational school hoping to learn about business management. He is hoping still for a scholarship but no one has picked him yet. Please help this worthy student. Google Checkout Huang needs $500 to continue in School Gloria Wei Especially Asks Help for Wu Wu is in need of help, he needs a scholarship. His father died, he would follow his mother's life and advice. His home land is little. "My mother is very old, and can not do heavy work. Family income is less." Can we be able to help him find financing. He is introverted, not to say too much with the family, is not very good at expression. Gloria Wei (Blessing Hands Administrator) 吴世耀是非常需要帮助的，他很需要奖学金。他父亲死了，他就跟着他的妈妈生活，他家里的田地很少，妈妈的个子很小，干不了重活，家里的收入非常的少。能不能帮他找到资助者，他很内向，不会跟说太多家里的情况，也不太善于表达。 If you want to help Wu give with this button donate now, or send you check to Blessing Hands, 106 Timber Lane, Morehead, KY. More baby pictures can be seen online at this address. There are only a hundred or so. Blessings indeed, Betty Cutts

Happy Mid- Autumn Moon Festival

Blessing Hands News

Happy Mid-Autumn Moon Festival Dear Friends and Supporters of Blessing Hands, I want to wish you all a happy Mid-Autumn Festival or Moon Festival as it is called in other parts of the world. I heard that it is celebrated even in Thailand and Korea. I have been getting lovely cards from Chinese students who are delighted to get a three day holiday. The highlight of my day was a picnic sponsored by the Kentucky Chinese American Association in Lexington. My son Ross and his very pregnant wife Rachel came too. Michael Anthony Howard and my husband, David Cutts, enjoyed the great food and fellowship as well. We were able to put up a table to introduce our Blessing Hands kids to the Chinese families who came for the festival. 23 people signed up for our newsletter and many more took brochures and information. Eric Zhang, who is one of our board members, arranged for me to have a display and introduced Blessing Hands to people who stopped at the table. He could tell them all about our kids in Chinese, while I answered any questions they had. We had such a warm welcome. Many were enthusiastic about our cause, and I hope to hear from some of our new contacts soon. One person will do some translation for us and others wanted to study our website and Blog to see if they want to support a college scholarship student. You can see our students still needing scholarships at this link. I was excited to get another $500 scholarship in the mail today unexpectedly. That makes 19 students getting scholarships now. I hope all of them get scholarships. They are working very hard to fulfill their dreams. Let's help them. You can give with this Google Checkout link or send a check to Blessing Hands, 106 Timber Lane, Morehead, KY 40351 Thank you from our students. I almost do not have the money and facing the possibility of dropping out of school. Only because of your help, I can go to my college. My specialty is Chinese, I study in the literature college of arts. Sunday Liu Thank you so much ! I hear the news today. I'm so happy and so thanks you. Thanks the other people who willing to help me. Yes, I know the God is equal. I'll treasure this chance which is so hard-won. I 'll remember the words, "No gains without pains'. I'll go to my school on Sept. 15. Now when I 'm thinking that I really can go to college, I'm in the great happiness. I would have the better chance to make more progress that I can have more abilities to help the other people ........... Best wishes! Huang Heng I told our administrator in Yangshuo to go ahead and fund Huang for a $500 Scholarship even though only $300 had come. Another check came today for $50 more than I expected. I am out on a limb with this scholarship. Please help me get off this limb by giving the rest of the money she needs - $150. Visiting Scholars Our college is a sister college to Guangxi University and every year visiting scholars come for 9 months. We have two delightful Chinese English teachers that have just arrived. All the scholars tell the new scholars to look for me, so I have no trouble making friends with them. Two of our administrators in China are former visiting scholars that I got to know when they were at Morehead State University. The new scholars are already helping me with Chinese translation. Debby Wang has given her voice to a 30 second commercial for our kids that I hope to place in Hong Kong either by Internet news or TV. Johnathan Thornsberry has worked hard on our public service announcements and is learning a lot in the process. You can see the English version on Youtube at this link. Debby is reading it in Mandarin in the photo here. They went to the Mid-Autumn Picnic today too. I leave for China on the 23rd of September for 17 days. All you students and friends in China, I am looking forward to seeing you. I will have a dinner with the college scholarship students in Nanning on the 27th and lunch with the ones in Guilin on October 8th. We will have two gatherings of older high school and middle school students to give out tuitions. The students are also being asked to do some drawings or calligraphy that we can feature in a silent auction in Lexington, Kentucky for Chinese New Year in 2009. Some of the college students are writing famous people for autographs to auction. I will be carrying a lot of things home this time. Some professional artists in Yangshuo will also donate paintings for us to auction. I will be telling you all about this trip in newsletters and taking a lot of film for Johnathan's projects. Blessings, Betty Cutts Blessing Hands 606 784 4785 Autumn in Morehead

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	Blessing Hands' Sponsors are Blessing Many!

	"Thank you" from our Blessing Hands Students! They appreciate your Scholarship gifts.     Sponsors like you are making lives change. The day after tomorrow, I will go to college to check in. If there is not your help, I can't get to the college. So I know I must work hard, and return you and all the people helping me. Blessings, Tao I KNOW the news today. Blessing hands give me the great help. It let me see the spring of my future. It give me the bless. I thank blessing hands so much, and after finishing my study, I WILL try my best to help others,making blessing hands spread everywhere,making the world full of bless.     I will remember blessing hands forever. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. Sincerely, Chen I will go to school on the next day. Believe me ，I will try my best to reach my dream！！ Only with your help ，I can fly in my sky. I will move my dream of flying. I know that, give me a blue sky.  I can fly very high. I so thank you for you and blessing hands。 I will use my efforts to repay all the people who love me and care about me 。 I will always pass on the love。 Your sincerely,  Sunday I am very luck to hear that I have been picked for a $500 scholarship. Thank you for you help! With your help I can continue my further study. My family are all very happy to hear the news. My parents' pressure will be less. I don't know how to show my thankness to all the friends who have helped me. I will do my best to help more people! And I will study more hard at college! I will go to college to start my college life tomorrow, I am very, very happy now!  I'd like to share my happyness with you! Thank you again! Yours, Zhang * The student's English is corrected with a spell checker, but we leave some mistakes when they don't interfere with clarity.

	Deng' Letter.  Alice Deng is already at her new school and has somehow paid 1500 yuan ($219 US). Perhaps she borrowed it. She needs another 1000 yuan ($145 US) by October 1st to stay in school.  Really she needs a full $500 scholarship since her vocational school is more expensive than colleges.       我现在已经到东方外语学院报到了，我只交了1500元的学费，老师叫我在10月1号再交1000元进去，但我家实在想不出办法拿这些钱出来交学费了。 Keep her in school  by giving with this button or sending a check to Blessing Hands, 106 Timber Lane, Morehead, KY 40351.

	Huang is accepted into college.  I've been accepted by Guilin Teacher's college, and my school will open on September 15. But I have not got enough money to school. I 'm so want to college .......Betty,please best wish to me ,and I 'm thinking some how to help myself now .   Good luck! Huang Huang and I have been anxiously waiting for her college letter, and finally she has been accepted almost last of all. She wants to be a teacher. She has $300 toward her college tuition and only needs $200 more. An opportunity is a terrible thing to waste. Please help her. Huang's Scholarship Essay     I am Huang.  In my family there are my parents, my brother, four sisters, and me. But my older sister married two years ago, so I have seven people in my family now as is the custom of China. My parents and my brother are farmers, and they are all poor in education. Four children are all in school in my family. My parents have to work hard but make little money to support our family. In other words, their labor force is low priced. They overwork to pay all our life and school expenses. When I see them so tired, I really want to grow up more quickly so that I can help them more. I have been a blessing Hands student for two years. In these two years, I received lots of help and love being in the Blessing Hands family. These gains let me know more new things. There must be difficulty in life. We should face it strongly and bravely and live a full life with a heart of love and thanks. I love life and the world. I hope I can do more for the world in the future, like helping the poor as you do. All these need more pay, and I need more of a chance to make more progress.  So I hope I can receive more help from Blessing Hands, so I can go to the university. Well, I know it is very important to give a hand to others. Telling you some good news, I also can help others in life as well as study. Please believe me that I will do it better and better. After I graduate from senior school, I think I can go to the university. Then I need your help.  I want to apply for the help which can afford my expenditure for my university. Now I here sincerely apply for help. If I can receive the help, I will study harder to return it to Blessing Hands and society in the future. At last, no matter what the results of my application, I will respect Blessing Hand's decision.  Thank you all the same. Best wishes, Huang Student ID: 200 National score :435  Major: Education Please help Huang finish out her scholarship. Google Checkout Just click on Google Checkout and give any amount for her scholarship.

	Henry Huang's Letter Hao  are you,           Expect your help.  Thank your help always to me. Wish that you are in the mid-autumn happy , every day joyful, Henry Huang. Henry starts school on the 15th and has not received any support yet. He wants to go to Guilin University of Technology in Electronic and Information Engineering. Please help this worthwhile young man. by clicking on our donate page.

	I received the letter below from Joy, one of the scholarship students funded last year. I am so pleased that she is being a blessing hand to new students arriving on her campus.  She knows what it is like to have no money to go to school. I want to share my feeling with all the Blessing members. The 6th and 7th of August was the time the new arrivals registered. Many of us are responsible to greet and guide them to report for duty. I warmly greeted a new arrival and her father who came from Hechi, Guangxi province. When I guided her to report, I knew her lack of money; she wanted to go to school by the "Green Access" which is set by the Government. Through this way poverty students can access college successfully but provide a loan. Something warm and distressed floated in my heart immediately that was not only because the situation of her family, but also something same exist in us. The most important reason was her father recalled me my dear father. Last year, before I went to school, what my father said and did all came back to my mind. In my opinion, parents can't take their children away from their heart, in their eyes children are only children whatever how old they are, where they went, and what they did. But I didn't want myself to be so worried, I wanted to be a understanding girl. So I helped her finish to report and led her to the dormitory to put away all the luggage. When all to be finished I led them to buy daily articles and have supper. I talked with them. I knew her father worked in a factory. Her mother and brother work outside, and her little brother is now in middle school. I promised to the uncle I would care and help his daughter in later. They thanked me a lot.  I only said, "It's my pleasure!" Because it was late and dark, uncle couldn't go home, so I helped him find a hotel to live a night, and the next day he would go home by train. I called the train station to know the time of the last train and left my telephone number. I had to leave when I accepted a call. It was rainy in that time. On my way to dormitory, I bought a bucket as a present to sent to her. It spent my 12 yuan, but I felt happy and successfully. It was dark deeply when I got to dormitory. The next day, it was a pity, because I had to greet another three new arrivals, so I couldn't send her father to the train station. Totally speaking, it was a special day, and I had a special feeling. Yours, Hong Joy

Thank you so much for being the blessing hands that you are to our students. Donate to our students by sending your check to Blessing Hands, 106 Timber Lane, Morehead, KY 40351.   You can also donate with this link through a credit card. Thanks, Betty Cutts Blessing Hands

16 Scholarships Received so Far

September 2008 Blessing Hands Scholarships Sixteen Scholarships Given so Far
Liang has $15 toward her scholarship. Dear Sponsors, You are wonderful folks. You have funded sixteen complete $500 scholarships so far- eight in Yangshuo and eight in Qinzhou. Blessing Hands already had twenty-two scholarship students last year, so we will have thirty-eight college students this fall. How rewarding this is to everyone. Most of the university students are entering their colleges now. However, vocational students are just now being notified of their acceptances. We don't want to leave them out. The latest ones accepted are featured in this newsletter. You can see the students who have not been funded yet on our photo page at this link. The scholarship essays that have been featured are also on this blog. Thank you so much for your support and help for our students. Without you there would be no Blessings Hands. In appreciation, Betty Cutts
Blessing Hands Blog Blessing Hands Website Scholarship Photo Page	Zhang's Scholarship Essay I am a student in Blessing Hands. First of all, I would like to express my appreciation to Blessing Hands for all the support, care, and love. Even though I am a high school student, I have a high level dream for life. Although my background of study is not good, I will work very hard and try my best. I would like to choose a major about information technology or politics and law. I feel like there are a lot of people who need help around us. The reason why there are so many people who need help might be that the economy of our country is not strong enough. This seems not relevant to my major, yet if we can use politics to pay attention to the people, this major seems much broader. On the other hands, I like the subject I am going to choose, and there is a lot of knowledge I need to learn in this subject. Through Blessing Hands, I feel warm. In the mean time, I understand what love means. Love is soft. Besides soft, it reminds me of something - righteousness. Righteousness is firm. Both "soft" and "firm" make a world filled with notes of harmony. This is my application for a Blessing Hands scholarship for the fall. My family is poor and can't support me go in a university to study, but I very much want to go, because it's my dream. I intend to study in a Qinzhou college. Please consider my application for a scholarship. Sincerely, Zhang ID: 172 National Score: 303 Major: Law Administration Alice Deng's Scholarship Essay My family name is Deng. I come from Yangdi Town in Yangshuo. I also had a happy and contented family originally, but after some years, my father and mother divorced each other. My younger sister and I live with my father. This was a shock for me. I often feel lonely and sad. My two young uncles died of illness. My grandfather killed himself soon after my uncles' deaths. My grandmother is blind because of losing her beloved sons. My family has been heavy in debts. Now there are four people in my family - my grandmother, my father, my younger sister, and I. The happy days have never come back again. My younger sister will graduate from junior middle school. Then she'll go to high school. She is in poor condition after an operation. We live a hard life now. Alice Deng ID: 512 National Score: 268 Business Management
These students need your help to continue to higher training. Only if they are picked online can they receive a Blessing Hands scholarship of any amount that you want to give. They have dreamed and worked, but now they need your help to go farther. Blessing Hands is a 501 (c)(3) charity. Your contribution is tax deductible. Donate any amount with Google Checkout at the top right of this page. You can also send checks for any amount to Blessing Hands, 106 Timber Lane, Morehead, KY 40351. Thanks, Betty Cutts Blessing Hands

Vocational School Scholarships

Blessing Hands Newsletter September 2008 Kingsley Mo has received $267 toward her $500 scholarship. She hopes to go to college soon and still needs the rest of her scholarship. Below are the words of one of her sponsors. Melissa has recently moved and didn't think she could give, but she was touched by Mo's essay. You can donate any amount also. I just want to tell you that I read Kingsley Mo's scholarship application. I was really touched by her words about love. If she is one of the students in need,, I would like to donate $17 dollars. Melissa Pan only lacks $124. The physics teachers at our local college havegiven $126 for his cause. He major is physics. Two students, who have recently been accepted by three year vocational colleges, are being featured in this newsletter. The tuitions for these colleges are much more than for four year colleges, but we still give $500. More of our students may be accepted by vocational schools during this month. There are many such colleges that send out their letters in September after the reglular colleges have sent their letters of acceptance. These schools serve students who didn't make the higher scores that qualify them for key colleges. China colleges are quiet different from American colleges. They have to pay their complete year all in the fall rather than a semester at a time. At least that is the way a lot of colleges do it. I am still learning the differences. They can't always change their majors or get exactly what they want to study. David Yu's Scholarship Essay My family name is Yu. My English name is David. My family has six people - my father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, sister, and me. Now my sister and I are studying in school. My grandfather and grandmother are in their eighties. They don't have a healthy body. My father and mother are farmers. They work hard but get too little. My parent's income is about 300 yuan ($44 US) every month, so we are living a difficult life. Although my life is difficult, during my high school years, I worked very hard. Every one of us is talking about the future. What is mine? I have decided to change my home. I have decided to work very hard. I will try my best to get better results and go to a good college. Yours, David Yu ID: 513 National Exam:354 Die Design and Manufacturing Jeff Li's Scholarship Essay My name is Jeff Li. I'm very sorry that I failed my last entrance exam. But I never give up, so I decided to have a try again at Li River School (He repeated the last year of high school.). At first, I found all was very difficult, but now I have made some progress with the help of my teachers and classmates. My mother died when I was two years old. Now I only live with my father. My father is forty-five. We are living in a mountain area. We lead a hard life, because my father has to offer me to go to school. He expects me to go to a university. I must work hard, so that I can realize my dream and don't make my father disappointed. Best wishes! Jeff ID: 437 National Score:387 Aircraft Maintance Quick Links Blessing Hands Website Photo Page Contact Us Our Blog You have been so generous to help the students with high grades. Please consider these vocational school students equally. I would if they were my kids. You can give any amount to these students, but we suggest $500 per scholarship. You can give with Google Checkout at this link. Checks can be sent to Blessing Hands, 106 Timber Lane, Morehead, Ky 40351 Sincerely, Betty Cutts Blessing Hands

September 2008
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Sunny Received her $500 Scholarship I am proud to know you sponsors. You have given so generously and with such heart. Thank you so much on behalf of the Blessing Hands students. I feel really blessed too. Chen Only Lacks $105 I know that Chen's teachers and classmates have supported him all the way.		In This Issue Huang F. Kingsley Mo Huang Y. Quick Links Blessing Hands Blog Website Photo page
Huang F's Scholarship Essay My name is Huang. First I would like to thank all the kind-hearted people for supporting me during the last two years. I have many words I want to express with my thinking, but here only one word can I use. Thank you very much for your help! My home town is in Lingshan County. I have two brothers. One is an undergraduate now studying in Hunan Province. The other is a senior student.Although the undergraduate brother applied for the national loan every year, I and my two brothers' tuition expenses are very large. My father earns little because of his sick body. My father always borrows money from some relatives. Without their help, I can't sit in the bright classroom. Therefore, in order to help my family, I need your help too. My father earns so little that it is hard to support my family, but my mom is a hard working woman, leaving home to work for seven years. Now I have received the help from Blessing Hands, which really reduced my pressures. Therefore I really thank Blessing Hands from the bottom of my heart. I am eager to be one of the students of Guangdong Industrial University majoring in vehicle engineering. Guangdong is China's economically developed zone. I think choosing such a major will make it better for me to find a job and support help for my family in the future. Two years ago, I was proud of becoming a Blessing Hand student. Though I will be a worker someday, I will always remember I am a Blessing Hand student forever. Thank you, Huang ID: 61 National Score: Unknown Mechanical Engineering Kingsley Mo's Scholarship Essay I'm Kingsley. My family name is Mo. There are six people in my family, my grandma, my father, my mother, my elder sister, my younger brother, and I. We are poor, but we live a happy life. My hometown is a beautiful place. If you go to travel there, maybe I can be your guide. I am a student who has received Blessing Hand's help more than two years. During that time, I understand what love is. Love falls like the gentle rain from the sky upon the earth. It is twice blessed: It blesses those who give it, and those who receive it. It is the highest of the highest. We should learn to help others. Where there is help, there is love. How can you hope for help yourself if you show none? I believe if everyone devotes a little love to society, the world will become a place filled with love. I will take my love wherever I go in the future. Thank you, Blessing Hands! It is you who let me know helping others is glory! Yours, Kingsley Student ID: 95 National Score: 487 Interpreter Huang Y's Scholarship Essay This is my application for a Blessing Hands Scholarship for the fall of 2008. I was born in a peasant family with five members. My parents are farmers, my elder brother has no regular profession, and my younger sister and I are students. My parents work day and night to feed the family, but we still find it hard to make ends meet. Because of the overloaded labors year after year, my mother has suffered chronic gynecological diseases and has to spend several thousand Yuan on treatment every year. Under these conditions, my father has to do a lot of labor work to earn tuition for my younger sister and me besides doing the farming. Furthermore, our house collapsed many years ago, and we are too poor to rebuild it. Now, we live with my uncle, and I finished my senior school on scholarship. So, if I pass the university entrance exam, it is impossible for my parents to pay for the high tuition. I have been the monitor of my class for many years and a member of the Student Union; therefore, I have a strong capacity for organizing and communicating. From elementary school to senior school, my scores always ranked among the best. To go to a university is my dream. Therefore, I really want to get a scholarship to make my dream come true. I intend to major in marketing and trade at Guangxi University. Please consider my application for a scholarship to college. Sincerely yours, Huang ID: 171 National Score: 397 Major: Business
Join our Blessing Hands sponsor family. I like to treat the Blessing Hands kids like my own sons. I would want my sons to go to college. Help these students fulfill their hard worked for dreams. Give to the students with the Google Checkout Button. You can give any amount. Checks can be sent to Blessing Hands, 106 Timber Lane, Morehead, KY, 40351. If you are in another nation, write to us for directions about how to give. Blessings, Betty Cutts

Harvest a student

Scholarship Students Our students are ripe, Pick one now.
Zhang has been picked for a $500 scholarship Sunday Liu has been picked for a $500 scholarship. Cheng's video on Youtube can be seen by clicking on this link. Cheng's Video	Students are leaving for college now. There are still a few colleges that start later, but the harvest is ripe in China. Pick your student. Several students are still hoping for complete sponsorships. All will get whatever you give, even if it is only a little. Chen needs $135 more. Pan needs $250 more. Liang needs $485 more. You can see all the students by clicking here. Pick one!
Cheng's Scholarship Essay My name is Cheng. I live in a poor country which lies in Pubei, Qingzhou, Guangxi. I was born into a family that lives by farming, but I am afraid of being poor, because I have a dream - a dream that I can go to university to learn more knowledge, which is a foundation for me. After I graduate, I think I can achieve it. By going to the university I can not only can get rid of poverty but also make a contribution to society. Only in this way can I make my dream. This is another way which I can spread blessing hands. I have a very poor family. I have 5 brothers, and they are all at school. Last year we had a heavy snow. All the bananas were destroyed, so we lost a lot of money. My father had an accident last year, and he stayed at the hospital for nearly four months. It took a lot of money. After that he cannot work normally. I need help. Thank you very much. Cheng ID: 261 National Score: 503 Teacher Shen's Scholarship Essay I was born and raised in the countryside. My aged parents are at home. I have an elder brother who is now studying in Xinxiang Medical College in Henan Province, and I have a younger sister who is in the 3rd grade in primary school. My hometown has very poor economic conditions. Our family's income mainly comes from growing crops. However, it is very difficult to pay the living expenses and tuition of three children based on their limited income. It makes my heart ache seeing my parents getting older day by day. It is such a great burden for my parents to support me to continue my education, but I am really eager to learn knowledge. I believe that learning can change one's destiny. I do not want to repeat the life of my ancestors, whose life only depended on agriculture. I want to learn and work hard for my ideals. Also, I will work hard continuously for changing my destiny by education. In a few days, I will participate in the 2008 National College Entrance Examination, and now I am studying very hard and busy preparing for it. I will take the exam with all my confidence. I believe that I will go to my ideal university. In the past, I was worried about the college tuition, but now, if I am awarded a Blessing Hands scholarship, I know this is my hope, and my hope will be fulfilled. Also I can make an effort to continue my study in college. I hope I can get the support and help from Blessing Hands to finish my study in college. I will work hard. Please trust me. Now, I really appreciate the support and help from the Blessing Hands during these two years. I believe that if everyone is willing to share love, more and more children will fulfill their dreams. Sincerely, Shen ID: 281 National Score: 337 Major: Chemistry/Environment Zeng's Scholarship Essay This is my application for a Blessing Hands Scholarship for the fall of 2008. I was born into a rural family near Qinzhou. I have a family of five members with less than three mu arable land. We earn merely 2000 yuan ($293 US) a year. Therefore, my mother, though in poor health, has to do small business as a vendor with no fixed income. My father works as an immigrant worker outside, but the factory he works in is often suspended due to various reasons such as lack of raw materials, manufacturing or sales difficulties. His average monthly income is less than 1,000 yuan ($146 US). We are in a poor economic situation, and it is hard to make ends meet. In my family, three of us are in school: my elder brother studies in senior grade three in Qinzhou with excellent grades, and my younger brother studies in an agriculture technical school. This year, my brother is going to enter college. His tuition, room and board and other costs will be at least 10,000 yuan ($1,463 US). If I also enter college, it will cost us at least 7,000 yuan ($1,024 US). Therefore, what my family has earned will definitely not cover what we will spend on our studies. Our family's economic problem is really my serious burden. I am an optimistic person with strong capacities of communication and organization. I have been a class cadre ever since I was in primary school, and I was elected as student union cadre and the school CYL cadre. I am enthusiastic in meaningful social practices. I am eager to enter a university, so I need a scholarship to fulfill my university dream. If I can finish my study in a university, I would like to help others and serve our society with my heart and soul just like others help me. Owing to Blessing Hands, I have gone though my high school study. Thank you very much, and many thanks to Mr. Liu, a teacher of my high school. By the way, I want to major in international trade at Guilin Institute of Technology. Please consider my application for a scholarship. Sincerely yours, Zeng ID: 173 National Score: 287 International Trade Fu's Scholarship Essay My name is Fu. I am a student of diligence and thrift, willing to study hard. Due to your great help, I am preparing to graduate from high school. I believe in the ideals of the University Examination, because I have a belief from childhood that through efforts, we change our fate and change our living conditions. God is fair. I am sure I will be successful, but due to the high cost of the university and the present economic situation in my home, it cannot be paid. I very much hope that you will continue to subsidize me in college. I want to successfully complete my education and achieve my dream. If you help me, I will use my real actions to prove that you made the right decision. Your help is an ideal, resulting in much thanksgiving in the hearts of the students. I will bless the hands of others to convey love to everyone around me, love passed on. Love is the desert oasis of health to bring hope to travelers. Blessing Hands brings us out of darkness to the bright light, who were before in a trip of difficulties without hope. I thank you for the help of the past, and I sincerely hope that you will continue to spread your love, and help me successfully complete the university. Sincerely, Fu Zhenfeng ID: 65 National Test Score: 504 Teacher Some of you might be waiting to see all the essays before you make up your mind. Three are yet to come, but more students may be accepted as the second and third group of colleges send out their acceptance letters. A friend said tonight that he had returned from a trip and was trying to read my 10,000 e-mails. This harvest is only going to last a few weeks, and we must gather up scholarships while the sun shines. Please forgive the many posts. We have many deserving students to feature. As always you can send a check to Blessing Hands, 106 Timber Lane, Morehead, KY 40351 for any amount for any featured student. You can also donate any amount using the Google Checkout button on this page. Betty Cutts Blessing Hands

Yangshuo Scholarships Invest in their Futures August 2008 Yangshuo Students Are Accepted into Colleges Henry Huang's Scholarship Essay My father had a very bad cancer and died two years ago. What he left was borrowed debt from our relatives of about thirty thousand yuan ($4,390 US). My mother, who is a farmer, has never attended school. She is living at home. It is hard to make money. Now my mother is fifty years old and hasn't any ability to earn more money. My home has little hands to work. But my mother spares no effort to earn money by working hard for our tuition and food. She gets up early in the morning and goes to bed late. However, it is not enough effort for our costs in school. What is more, my elder sister is studying in a college where tuition and food are very expensive. Luckily, we are working hard at school. I believe that I will have a good tomorrow. I will help those who need it and let them feel the warmth of the world. Henry Huang ID:494 National Score:480 Major: Mechanical Engineering Wu's Scholarship Essay I am an 18 year old boy. I have been a Blessing Hands student for two years. I was born in a small village of Yangshuo, China. My family members include my mother and sister. Because of disease, my father left us forever two years ago. All my family was lost in sadness, and my family borrowed 20,000 yuan ($2,926 US) for the medical service. My mother is a farmer. She has to do all things since my father left us. We have very few units of farm land. The income is very small. In order to make money, mother works very hard. Every day she set out early and returns late, but we are still unable to afford the cost of a university and we also need to pay back the loan. I thought I could help my mother if I gave up studying, but my mother didn't allow that. She said to me with crying, she doesn't want me to be a farmer like her. She wants me to have a good future by studying in the university. I know mother loves me. I won't let her be disappointed. I must do my best to study, but I really don't want to see my mother worried about me every day. I don't want to see her health broken down for me. So I hope I can get your help, because my mother and my family really need it. Yours, Wu ID: 481 National Score: 482 Major: English Lois Li's Scholarship Essay I'm glad that I have been one of the Blessing Hands' students for one and a half years. I don't know how to thank you enough. When I 'm in trouble, you give me a hand. Now you give me light again. I come from a family which is full of difficulties. There are eight people in it. My great grandma is too old to do housework. My grandpa is ill, and my mother is suffering heart trouble. All of them are in need of medical treatment, which has made the family fall into trouble. What is worse, in order to change our poverty life, my father has had to work hard for my sister and me to accept an education. Tuition and fees are so expensive that our family is in debt to others. Because of little labor, only my father carries the burden which has made him tired out. Little labor and high expenses makes our family's situation worse and worse. I hope to change our life by entering college with your help. Though I have failed last year's entrance examination, I believe that failure is the mother of success. I must make my dream come true this year. I'll never give up or stop searching for knowledge to become the first college student in my family. I can't choose what life I have had, but I must do what I can to get what life I will have. I hope you help me realize my dream. Lois Li ID: 483 National Score: 497 Doctor Janice Li's Scholarship Essay Because I will attend college, so I apply for a scholarship from you. We all know the college tuition is expensive. To my family it's the same, although in my family only I go to school. Yet my family can't afford for me to go to college. My parents are farmers, and we have only a little land. My brother works in Shenzhen, but his wage is less than 100 yuan ($146 US). According to this, only if I apply for a scholarship, can I go to college. In college I will try my best to deserve the scholarship. Thus I can finish my career. If I am awarded this scholarship, I will make sure that the award will be used for the sole purpose of my college tuition. I will value it. At last, I hope I can receive the scholarship. Thank you and best wishes. Yours truly, Janice Li ID: 509 National Score: 469 Major: Computers Amy Xu's Scholarship Essay Three years ago my father left us forever. Mother, brother, and I felt very sad. We didn't know where our tomorrow was. I should go to senior school, but we couldn't pay for the tuition. So I told mother I wanted to go out of school and make money. Mother didn't agree with me. She wanted me to go to school to study more and more knowledge. She said knowledge is power. Knowledge could change fate and give a hand to other people who wanted to go to school. Mother and I worked hard two months. Several uncles gave me their money, so I could go to school and go on studying. My brother was still covered by the compulsory nine year basic education, so his tuition was cheap. Only my mother makes money to pay for our food. It all is not enough usually. My teacher knew my family's situation. She helped me become a Blessing Hands student. I had enough money to pay for food. Thanks very much to Blessing Hands, I could go on studying until now. Now I hope Blessing Hands will help me go to college. I will find a job in my spare time. Finally I want to say "thank you" to Blessing Hands. Yours, Amy Xu ID: 414 National Score: 326 Doctor Testimonial From Ruan I am so moved by that sponsor picked me. Thank you. Thanks Blessing hands....... Betty, now I am in Changchun Taxation College. this is a beautifull college. everything is perfict and fresh. now i am adapting the life of college! thank you for your help! thanks. Ruan Students featured In This Issue Henry Huang Wu Lois Li Janice LI Amy Xu Yangshuo, China These students all live in Yangshuo, China. We have purposed to give each of them $500 for their tuitions for one year. If sponsors want to continue the sponsorship the second year, that is fine too. The students will be encouraged to write to you and do volunteer work to become blessing hands to others as they received a blessing hand. Blessing Hands started when I was teaching in a summer English camp in Yangshuo with Sister Cities of Morehead. Yangshuo is the Sister City of Morehead, KY where we live. Yangshuo is a world class tourist town that is small by Chinese standards. People come from all over the world to see, photograph, write about, paint, and climb the amazing mountains there. . The rural people there are very poor like many areas in inland China. These precious students need your help because their families have fallen on hard times. They work so hard in school. I hope you want to see them pull them- selves out of poverty too. Betty Cutts Blessing Hands 106 Timber Lane Morehead, Kentucky 40351 Blessing Hands 606 784 4785 Testimonial This letter is from Elaine Yeh, who teaches Chinese in Virginia. She has been an enthusiastic giver since she first heard of Blessing Hands. She sends a part of each of her pay checks to Blessing Hands. You can see that we agree that giving has more joy than receiving. The letter may encourage you also. Blessings, Betty Cutts I have promised that I am going to tell everyone about how I feel. Like you say, "giving is such a joy", however, I think it is not only joy, but also I am willing to do this from my heart. I always think a good education can bless children's lives and bring a better future for them. This is not a "one person task". Every time I get my paycheck or I sell my paintings, I have no doubt. I just write a check and mail it. It is a very easy thing, but I always gain so much joy and grateful feelings. The money is not the point of the matter. I want to do this. I will keep doing this for the rest of my life. I want to also thank Betty for setting up this charity. Best Wishes, Elaine Yeh Give to these deserving students by sending a check to: Blessing Hands 106 Timber Lane Morehead, KY 40351 You can also give any amount on our Blog using the Google Check out Button on the right side. They will not charge us a processing fee, so you whole donation will go to Blessing Hands.Just click here to go to the Blog. If you are in another nation write for instructions on how to give to our bank account.

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August 2008 Zhang and Huang Two Future Teachers Need Help Going to College

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More Wonderful News Ruan now has a sponsor who has gathered up the $500 Ruan needs. How relieved he must be and how good the sponsor must feel to have had a part in changing a person's life. Chen has received funds from two sponsors. All he lacks now is $235. I know his school is excited to see this help come his way. He had marvelous support from teachers and classmates. Sunday, however, is still waiting for her help. With her permission I have pasted her latest letter here. Dear Betty， Now I am live in a difficult position。I do not knowe what can I do 。The family house almost collapsed in heavy rain, the family has no money built houses。 If I go to universitie, all of the costs of only one person from my own commitment。It will be a hard time during my college。But I have no reason to give up。The only thing I can do is persis in it。 So,I am so need the blessinghands' help。 Dear Betty,I will go to college on 26th, setember. Sunday Liu Zhang Scholarship Essay Thank you for your help during my senior 3 life. My family name is Zhang. I am a senior 3 student of a Qinzhou middle school in Guangxi province. I was born in July 1988. Now, I would like to tell you something about my family. I come from a five person family. My parents are farmers. My sister is studying in a middle school in my hometown. My brother is a 17 year old boy who is a senior school student. My family is full of happiness. But there is one thing. My family is poor, which makes our future life hard. Fortunately, I got help from Blessing Hands. I would like to say thanks to you again. I want to go to college to study teaching English. I know that English is more and more important. I hope that more and more Chinese can communicate with foreigners without translators, and we can help more and more foreigners who come to China. What is more, teachers play an important role in my life. I would like to pass my thankfulness to more and more people in the future. I think that if everyone passes their love to other people around the world, the world may be a more beautiful place. How do you think about this? All my best wishes, Yours, Zhang ID:80 National Score: 542 Teaching Huang Scholarship Essay My family name is Huang. I'm from Lingshan. Although it is a country place, I like it very much. I like the people and the air. I like studying very much. I do well in my study. I like my teachers and my classmates. Thanks to your help, I can finish my senior school education. I am so thankful that I cannot express myself. In a word, thank you very much. My dream is to be a great person, so I can devote myself to my poor village, but my family is very poor. My mother has been dead for many years. Now, there are only two people in my family, my father and I. My father is 68, and he has poor health. As with my mother's illness, we spent too much money, and now my father's income is very low. It's 100 yuan a month ($15). Now I am faced with the situation of whether I have a chance to go to a university. I wish you can continue to give your hand to me to go to the university. If I can get help from you, I will do my best to study, and I will help anyone who is in need. I wish I can pass your love one by one forever. I want to go the the University of Hunan. My goal is to be a good teacher, because the children of my hometown are fond of knowledge, but many teachers are needed in the village. I want to study hard during my university time, after which I will come back to my hometown and devote myself to teaching. I wish every poor child will have their dreams come true. Thank you very much for helping me. It's very kind of you to help me before. Thank you very much. Huang ID: 223 National Score: 378 Teacher College Entrance is Very Competitive I get the joy of telling teachers and students the good news that they have a sponsor. They are so relieved and elated. Getting into college is quite different from America where colleges are recruiting students with scholarships. In China too many students are all after the same position in a college. Some are left out and have to try next year after repeating their last grade again. The all important college entrance exam is given only once a year all over China at the same time. If they are sick that day or absent, they have to wait a whole year to take the test again. They can make very high scores and still not get accepted by a college. They can get accepted but not be able to pay the tuition without the help of a local business, nonprofit, or relatives. Loans are easier for students who are returning to college, but academic scholarships are awarded at the end of their first year of college through selection processes based on high scores. Few students get those scholarships. We are offering our students this year only a one year scholarship, unless of course their sponsors want to renew their help. We hope that they will get loans or campus jobs to help through the rest of their college life. That allows us to help the next crop of students. Thanks, Betty Cutts We invite you to invest in the lives of our students. One of my favorite sayings is, "People are more important than things." That has lead me to value lives and changing them more than something that will wear out. Use the Google Checkout button on our Blog to give any amount toward the tuitions of these students. You can also e-mail us for more information and letters of recommendations. The students are being featured in the order of their scores given by our 4 person scholarship committee, consisting of two Chinese and two English speaking members.

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Blessing Hands August 2008 Great News! Enterprises in Pubei have chosen two of our Pubei students to support. One of them was May Wu, who was featured in our last newsletter. Mayor Lou has been helping us recruit sponsors there. We appreciate him very much. He is concerned for the students in Pubei. We are featuring the students applying for college scholarships according to the scores that our four person scholarship committee gave them.dation, and application forms. Chen My family name is Chen. I live about 50 kilometers away from my school. I live at school except for the summer and winter holidays. I faced lots of difficulties when I was a child. We couldn't afford all the necessary medications for my parents, so they left us. When I was nine years old, I became an orphan. My grandfather raised my two elder sisters and me. My two sisters had to quit their education because my grandfather was unable to pay their tuition. One of my sisters, who lives in Jiangsu province, married two years ago. However, my grandfather is old and weak. My sisters can hardly afford my high tuition of college. My grandfather and I are supported by the other sister, but we live a poor life. However, I am so eager to become a doctor that I have never given up my education. I will help all those who need help. In my opinion, "Where there is a will, there is a way." I need your help to fulfill my education. I was so lucky to have been a Blessing Hands student for two years. I was given not only money but also love and encouragement. I want to become a doctor, so I intend to major in medicine in the university. Chen ID: 166 National Score: 448 We received this note from Chen's teacher today. It is a better recommendation than any I have read. I am glad to tell you that Chen Shaocai has received the acceptance of Guangxi University for Nationalities. His university tuition is about 4000 ($585)yuan per year and 7000 yuan in total.His teachers are worry about his schooling fare.He found a job in a hotel and has earned about 800 yuan.He need a scholarship. Let's praying for the boy. I will send some of his pictures to Blessing Hands. Yan Sunny Chen Sunny Chen Sunny already has $250 given toward her scholarship by a nontraditional student at MSU during our "Pick Me!" event. She just now sent her papers that she was accepted into college. I have been hoping that she would get to use the $250. Time is running out for our students. We might not get them all featured here before their universities begin. Please go to our photo page and pick one of our students to give scholarship support. Pay pal will take your donation with the donate button below or you can go to our blog and donate there using a Google Checkout button that takes any amount. Write if you need more information on any of our students before you give. Sincerely, Betty Cutts Blessing Hands