Hope Tastes Good

How is the Bread of Life Bakery any different from a normal bakery? Well, it’s normal in every way like any other bakery, but it employs [physically] handicapped foster children. Does making baked goods really help the kids get ready for life out in the wider world? It does, because most of the children have lived in orphanages their whole lives, and they were raised by nannies [who] literally do everything for them. So they get to adulthood, and they literally have no ability to function like a normal adult would? Right. So this gives them the ability to have a job and an income. They learn how to weigh, measure. They learn how to be responsible. Why move from Toledo, Ohio to China and start a bakery for foster children? You know, we’ve never been asked this question before. [laughing] Yeah, I’m sure you never get this. We raised two boys, but we always wanted a daughter. And in the process of one daughter, we adopted four. We came back basically because we couldn't adopt anymore, so the only way that we could help more children was to come here.