They Had 5 Babies and One Can of Formula – THE HOUSE OF JOY

The House of Joy is one of those amazing ministries that we support through Streams of Mercy. They are located in the remote Rift Valley region of Ethiopia. This orphanage currently has five babies who have been abandoned or relinquished. We visited the House of Joy in March, just before it was launched. No babies were in the home yet,

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The Forsaken Children

We arrived at The Forsaken Children and I was once again struck by the scope of their ministries to street children. There are 100,000 children living on the streets of Addis Ababa. When I heard that statistic, I was overwhelmed by the desperate need of those kids. But, the Forsaken Children staff are reaching out to the children of the streets

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HUNGER WEIGHS MUCH MORE THAN THIS SACK OF FOOD! – ADOPTION 1:27

Hunger Is Heavier Than This Food The elderly woman stood bent over and very frail. We were at the food distribution for destitute widows in the city of Adama, several years ago. This was their monthly food distribution. 20 widows would receive a life-sustaining gift of food that day. It was enough food to sustain them for the next 30

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Ethiopia: Bringing Hope to the Desperately Needy

    Kore (Korah), Ethiopia is the most desperately poor area of the world that I’ve ever seen in all of my years of traveling across the globe.  Most of the homes are made of mud or tin.  All of the people live in desperate poverty. There is a major road through the middle of Kore, but it’s the road

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WIDOWS AND ORPHANS HOME ADAMA, Ethiopia

    Today our team spent time at the Widows & Orphans Home in Adama. The home is run by a very capable Ethiopian woman, and is home to a group of widows and orphans awaiting adoption. There is a mural painted on the wall of the baby nursery says “But God had a plan to save them all”.    

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HELPING DESTITUTE WIDOWS IN 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

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Jinja Village Clinic

We also spent some time yesterday with the staff and patients at a clinic in the middle of a remote area outside of Jinja. A little baby named Blessing has been sick with an upper respiratory infection for a while now. His father asked if our team would pray for his son. We gathered around him and asked the Healer

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The Uganda Foster Family Network

We spent the morning with Irene who, with her husband, leads the Foster Family Network here in Jinja. The FFN is a community support network who collectivelyhave taken in 250 at risk kids into their homes and really embraced them into their families. They work together, they support each other-it’s incredible! It could very well be the best example of

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