We attended church this morning at IEC (Pastor and Becky Threatt) with Alayu, our host at the Guest House. It was incredible!!
The church was packed with people from all over the world, beautiful little children and the people we so love from Ethiopia.
The message was about Breaking Through the Small World Syndrome and stepping out in the power of the Holy Spirit to share Jesus and salvation wherever He might lead us.
He asked the question, "Lord, where would you have me to go?" WOW, could that be Ethiopia or could that be.........????? No idea at the moment, but I am sure of the fact that Doc and I are diligently seeking God for what His plan is for us now. We are willing to be used wherever and however He chooses and if that is in Mansfield or Ethiopia or .........., so be it.
We have already encountered several different people with different ministries and we are listening and considering them all. We also are diligently praying about the adoption issue, especially in regards to 2 Ethiopian girls ages 9 and 12, who are already in the States and need a home.
Only God knows the plans He has for us at this point. We just need to seek and pray and follow His leading. As for now, it seems that we are to check out several different ministries here in Ethiopia and make contacts considering how to get clean water wells to villages in Ethiopia. We are making some contacts even as I write.
We are planning to go to lunch with Emily, a 21-year-old girl here from Berlin, volunteering for a Baptist mission, raising funds to build schools and wells and bathroom facilities for the women in the rural areas of Ethiopia. They have already done so in Nazaret. We talked at length with her last night about this. So interesting.
We also talked some with Alayu about Compassion International and the work they do, as his brother, Tsey, is the International Director of Compassion here in Ethiopia. Very interesting and promising as to how we could get involved.
We also hope to meet this afternoon with the Shannons (from Lancaster, PA) who live here near the dump and have a ministry of daycare and mentoring to women about parenting, etc.
We have made the connection with Almasz of Hannah's Hope (the orphanage where Markos was) and will meet with her some time this week to give her a photo album for Markos' mom.
The weather has been beautiful since we arrived. The Guest House is so pleasant and there are beautiful flowers growing everywhere.
Doc is doing ok so far with the food (we have only eaten here at the Guest House and Kidist has been so kind and made spaghetti last night and scrambled eggs this morning). We will be a little more adventuresome when we go to lunch with Emily.
We trust that all is well with our blog followers and that you continue to pray for us as we seek God's will for our lives.
The church was packed with people from all over the world, beautiful little children and the people we so love from Ethiopia.
The message was about Breaking Through the Small World Syndrome and stepping out in the power of the Holy Spirit to share Jesus and salvation wherever He might lead us.
He asked the question, "Lord, where would you have me to go?" WOW, could that be Ethiopia or could that be.........????? No idea at the moment, but I am sure of the fact that Doc and I are diligently seeking God for what His plan is for us now. We are willing to be used wherever and however He chooses and if that is in Mansfield or Ethiopia or .........., so be it.
We have already encountered several different people with different ministries and we are listening and considering them all. We also are diligently praying about the adoption issue, especially in regards to 2 Ethiopian girls ages 9 and 12, who are already in the States and need a home.
Only God knows the plans He has for us at this point. We just need to seek and pray and follow His leading. As for now, it seems that we are to check out several different ministries here in Ethiopia and make contacts considering how to get clean water wells to villages in Ethiopia. We are making some contacts even as I write.
We are planning to go to lunch with Emily, a 21-year-old girl here from Berlin, volunteering for a Baptist mission, raising funds to build schools and wells and bathroom facilities for the women in the rural areas of Ethiopia. They have already done so in Nazaret. We talked at length with her last night about this. So interesting.
We also talked some with Alayu about Compassion International and the work they do, as his brother, Tsey, is the International Director of Compassion here in Ethiopia. Very interesting and promising as to how we could get involved.
We also hope to meet this afternoon with the Shannons (from Lancaster, PA) who live here near the dump and have a ministry of daycare and mentoring to women about parenting, etc.
We have made the connection with Almasz of Hannah's Hope (the orphanage where Markos was) and will meet with her some time this week to give her a photo album for Markos' mom.
The weather has been beautiful since we arrived. The Guest House is so pleasant and there are beautiful flowers growing everywhere.
Doc is doing ok so far with the food (we have only eaten here at the Guest House and Kidist has been so kind and made spaghetti last night and scrambled eggs this morning). We will be a little more adventuresome when we go to lunch with Emily.
We trust that all is well with our blog followers and that you continue to pray for us as we seek God's will for our lives.
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