Category: Ethiopia

  Last night our team landed in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and we hit the ground running this morning. We loaded up in a van to join some friends who work on the ground here to deliver much needed supplies to a group of widows in a remote village near Adama. These widows are destitute. They don’t have anyone to care

Widows and our Team As I write this blog we have just had an official ceremony opening the new Widows and Orphans home in Adama Ethiopia. The new building is stunning!  Two of the five stories have been completed and are now occupied.  I was here in June, and the change is amazing. Widows lined the entry way and greeted

At Living Hope Home with Nigerian Bishop Okoye We headed South out of the Capitol of Addis Ababa into the Rift Valley.  Addis is in the mountains and we descended into the low lands. We traveled toward Adama, and two different homes. The first home was the Living Hope Women’s Home, a home for girls in crisis pregnancy. The girls

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuSQKGxfpyA] Life isn’t easy in the Ethiopian savanna. In many of their villages, they have no electricity and no running water, and much of their way of life has remained unchanged for centuries. Thanks to a special donation from Life Church in Olathe, KS, Streams of Mercy was able to donate 22 goats to one of these villages. A gift

Growing Old In A Place of Grace And Love Tizera is a modern day Mother Theresa In this society, widows have no hope at all, especially if they have no children.  They live on the streets, or in conditions of extreme poverty.  They are without hope and desperate, as they simply try to survive.  Fifteen years ago, the Lord gave