Evidence of your contributions.

We recently received pictures from Bright Hope School in Addas Ababa showing the very exciting first harvest of the vegetables and eggs. These represent the ornaments that you purchased at Christmas. In less than a year you have greatly impacted this school, the children who attend the school and the surrounding community. Amesegenalew!!!!

Korah Distrcit Video

Here is a link to a video that was made to help bring awareness to the needs of the people in the Korah District. Our friend Sammy tells a little bit about his story and the people that Great Hope Church are reaching with the gospel

http://www.vimeo.com/13771428

Progress at Bright Hope School

The Chickens have finally arrived and the gardens are looking great.  Here are some updated pics from the school.   They will soon have eggs filling the egg laying stations and vegetables for the children when they come back to school this fall. 

Vegetable Garden

Egg Laying Hens

Egg Laying Stations

Vegetable Gardens

Progress at Bright Hope School

Here are some pictures of the continuing progress being made at Bright Hope School. Thanks for all your continued prayers for the projects and the community of Korah. We look forward to a time when can take over another team and continue serving within this great comminity.

Training on how to plant

Planting begins, Tefera in white shirt on left side

Building is complete on the section of wall we were working on in May.

Plastering up the cinder blocks.

Pics from the Bright Hope School Job Site

 

Left:  Phase 2 of the Wall:  210 meters of foundation almost complete.   Below:  Chicken House almost finished.  Above:  Derrick and Jen carrying a rather large rock with a barilla down to the wall.  Good Job guys.  Bottom:  Becky working hard with one of the ladies on the jobsite.  Group Photo:  Everyone enjoyed a soda on Thursday afternoon in celebration of a good week of work.   Friday was a government holiday.  

Pictures from Great Hope Church

Some girls enjoying there enjera for lunch at Great Hope Church in the Korah district. 

Almost Home

On Friday, we took the day off, due to the Ethiopia's Memorial Day, and spent the morning at Great Hope Church in the Korah neighborhood.  This church is the only evangelical church in the community of approximately 130,000 people.  There is about 500-600 kids who attend the various programs that are put on by the church.  Programs like a sports camp on Saturday mornings, after school teaching/training sessions, a school lunch program for the kids who otherwise wouldn't get any food or water at all.  They also have a ministry to the kids who are living at the dump.  The list of outreach programs that this church runs is endless.  Sound familiar?  We really had a good time helping out each day with the lunch program and so we spent several hours on Friday hanging out with the children.  Some of the guys on our team pitched in and help sand the rust off of metal bunk beds that they are going to use to for the 30 orphans that the church is taking in from the dump.  When we left the church amidst tears of joy, and sadness, we all truly believed that God is doing a mighty work through this small church.  


The rest of the day was spent gathering our things to come home, and doing some last minute shopping of gifts for family and friends.  We boarded the plane at 11:30 pm local time in Ethiopia.  We made it to Frankfurt and had an 8 hour layover so we ventured in to town.  We visited a local Cathedral that was bombed during World War II.   During the bombing, an ancient Roman Bath house was unearthed, and is currently on display next to the Cathedral.  It was nice to get out of the airport and get some fresh air.  We got some coffee and pastries at a little downtown cafe and then made our way back to the terminal to catch our flight to Denver.   While we were in route there was a medical emergency on the plane and we were detoured to Montreal Canada, to let the passenger off so that they could get her to the hospital.   Everything that we know is the she was in stable condition when she left the plane.  33 Hours after we left Addis we arrived in Denver.   So, consequently we missed our flight, the last one out of Denver, and are now staying in a hotel for tonight.  Everyone is exhausted mentally as well as physically.  They all did great throughout the trip, even though we had some adversity along the way.  Thanks for praying for us.  We arrive into Billings tomorrow morning at 12:48pm.  Look forward to seeing or talking with everyone about the trip when we get home.


Sincerely,
Aaron