We woke up to the sounds of cars, buses, prayers on the loudspeakers and dogs barking. The street outside our guesthouse is quite busy! After breakfast (scrambled eggs and banana bread, and -- of course -- coffee!)
We attended Beza International Church (the same church we went to last year). Church began with several very exhuberant worship songs. The pastor shared that it was "Vision Sunday" for their church and today the leadership would be sharing their plans for a new building. More than talking about the building, however, they shared their vision for the "movement" of the church in Ethiopia. Beza is determined to see righteousness reign not just in their church, their city or the country of Ethiopia....they truly are on fire to see Jesus Christ exhalted on the entire continent of Africa! Although there was no "sermon," the determination of these Christian brothers and sisters to see people redeemed was very inspirational! At the front of the church, they had flags for many different countries (about 30). At that end of the service, they asked for people from other nations who were in the congregation go to the front to stand by the flag of their country. We were amazed to see the number of nations represented! The pastor prayed that we would go forward from there to advance the gospel.
After church, we returned to the guest house for lunch. We met up with a team of 8 members from Illimois/Missouri/California. We will partner with them later in the week to work together at CFI. During this time, Peter and Eliza Abera, CFI's director's and our in-country 'hosts' shared thier testimony and CFI's mission. Everyone was eager to learn more about the main ministy we would be serving at this week!
After lunch we decided to tackle the huge task of sorting out all of the donated items! Imagine 28 suitcases and totes that are all stuffed FULL with 50 pounds each of all sorts of donations. In order to maximize our space/weigh, the donated items were all mixed in together. We sorted everything out and began the process of seperating items by where we will be taking them. Hopefully this will save us time later in the week.
We are settling in now for what will (hopefully) be a good night's rest!
On the schedule for tomorrow: Compassion Family International in the morning (we will do a VBS with the kids, and a fellowship/craft time with the women. We will also be fitting the children for their new shoes!
We appreciate your prayers!!
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