n the past, I have led our house on mission trips to Mexico and Peru to care and encourage the fatherless.Now I feel the Lord`s leading to be a piece of a particular trip this Christmas season. Covenant Seminary and Commission to the Universe are running together to take the love and good of God to the mass of Ethiopia.The Aids Care and Treatment (ACT) Project ministers to the 700 HIV positive beneficiaries and 50 orphans under its care.When I mean of those fatherless children and see Jesus, by the Holy Spirit, saying "Skip-go and promote them," I live he will fit me to do once again. This Christmas season (starting January 6 in Ethiopia) will you pray that the grim and fatherless in Addis Ababa would be greatly encouraged?Counseling Professor Dan Zink will be leading our team of medical doctors and counseling students.The main focus will be providing a two week medical clinic to persons with HIV/AIDS within the ACT/SIM project in Addis Ababa. This testament likewise be a sentence of scholarship and specialized counseling training to ACT workers and counseling students under Dr. Zink`s supervision. SIM is the indigenous Addis based mission group.It was a joy for Keary and me to go to Africa for the start sentence in June to help African orphans and see from existing models of care.We spent five years at the ACT Project walking alongside project leaders, national workers and care givers.We went into the homes of the short and prayed for individuals who were ill and suffering from HIV/ AIDS.We spent time leading Bible Clubs after school and were able to talk intimately with beneficiaries and their children. It was a sentence of great sharing.Our entire time in Africa was quite memorable, but one minute in particular struck me deeply.I had hardly finished sharing a tale to a great wide-eyed group of boys (about my son Stephen`s age) recalling God`s fidelity to me, while surviving in Virginia.At the end of the story, I looked round and asked the boys if they would care for us to return.Most of the children exclaimed a resounding "yes!"Then, as I was thought about what that meant, a new Ethiopian boy began to beg for me and my family.God spoke deeply into my spirit and the grandness of warm friendship and relationships. We ask each other!I am mad about this trip because it will let me to bring the goodness and clemency of God to the fatherless, but it will also instruct me more about how to more effectively care for those in demand in the African/Ethiopian context.For the preceding 3 years, Covenant Seminary has sent teams to Addis and again we anticipate experiencing valuable hands-on training during this time.I think my fall will likewise be of great boost to the national workers and individuals I met this summer.Please pray for me and considering supporting me financially. Thank you for your partnership in the gospel, again.
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