Sunday morning- Palm Sunday

Sunday morning coffee with the boys! True Ethiopian coffee! Girls all still in bed! — with Tyler Davison, Logan Morrison, Tim Chester and Rick Randleman. 

Good morning from Ethiopia! The sun is shining on Palm Sunday and we are headed to church late morning. After lunch, guys are visiting Layla House and ladies are teaching sewing at Mission Ethiopia. A great day is ahead!  

We are here!

We arrived safely in Ethiopia about 1pm central time.  Everyone is doing well.  Cindy and Madison had a little sickness on the way over, but that seems to have passed.  Our stop in Frankfurt and Khartoum went well.  We are headed to our housing- will update more as soon as we can!  Thank you for praying for safe travel!!

Travel Day!

Group photo before we board the plane!  KC-Newark-Frankfurt-Khartoum-Addis here we come!

Team Verse

Travel Day is Friday!

Our team of 16 is packed and (almost) ready to go to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Here's an overview of our schedule:

Fri/Sat-Travel Days; arrive in Addis around 9 pm Saturday night.

Sunday-Palm Sunday! Worship at Beza International Church; lunch with our group and our Mission Ethiopia guides; guys will head to Layla House and ladies will go to Mission Ethiopia to do a sewing class.

Monday-Kind Hearts School! Reading, singing, games, handing out teacher's gifts and touring the grounds. Excited to see the kids and staff and our clean water well!

Tuesday-Kind Hearts; handing out care packages to kids. This takes almost the entire day!

Wednesday-Headed to minister to the homeless people who live around the city dump with Project 61. We have sponsored a lunch and will help prepare and serve many homeless people.

Thursday-Trees of Glory! So excited to see the library the group Rescued Readers is helping create there!

Friday-We're leaving this open-hoping to go back to Layla House, do some shopping, packing, and later leaving for the airport. This is such a short, crazy trip!!

Saturday-arrive at KCI late afternoon. Ready to celebrate Easter!!!

Thank you for your prayers for our team as we leave to minister to our friends in Ethiopia. We certainly could not do this without you! God bless you!

(We hope to update this blog as electricity and the internet permits!)

Interested in Ethiopia 2013?

Join us September 18 at 7pm in the St. Joseph Christian School library to learn more about the trip. We hope to see you there!

Can you believe it? We're already planning our next trip for March 2013. Some of our team members have already started fundraising for next spring (Way to go Richardson's!!) Please let me know if you are interested in heading to Ethiopia with us next spring. It will change your life!