A Green Famine

Well, our best intentions to keep our communication up-to-date were fumbled by sparse electricity, unavailable transportation, and uncertain internet.  Here’s a late report from our last full month in Ethiopia: Last May, rain became uncommonly common.  While people think of Ethiopia as dry and hot; the climate in the highlands region is actually in the [...]

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2 Videos from Rural Ethiopia

These videos will give you an insight from our year in Ethiopia.  More to come… Take the quiz.  Go for a perfect score! The following is mostly raw footage from religious life in Ethiopia:

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Please Help Baby Debora!

Just before we came to Ethiopia, two of our school’s teachers had a baby born with two spinal discs open (no skin).  Nagusse and Fanosey are the proud parents of Baby Debora.  They were able to receive the financial assistance (through previous volunteers) necessary to connect the discs and graft skin over the wound.  After [...]

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“Come and See” in Yetebon

We’ve met many guests and volunteers our time in Yetebon. Doctors from the California gave physicals to an impressive 1,200 students. Taylor University spent a month in Yetebon to teach grades 1-4 (and give the basketball team a mean scrimmage). More recently, the founders of Tom’s Shoes company and royalty from Germany and Ethiopia came [...]

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Justice and Mercy for Solomon, part 2

One of my favorite parts from the recent movie “Slumdog Millionaire”
happens when the main character, a “street rat” from Bombay, India,
gives an uncertified tour of the city’s outskirts to an American
couple. Upon returning to the car he and the tourists find it has
been ransacked. A nearby policeman then figures the orphan is part of
the plot and begins beating him. Between shouts for help, the boy
remarks, “You wanted to see the real India… here it is.” Several
people in the theatre audience laughed and the woman’s response: her
face is filled with compassion, she gathers herself, and then says,
“Well, we’re going to show you some of the real America.” After
handing the boy a wad of money, she instructs the policeman to let her
go.

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Using PayPal

As much as I enjoy working with computers, I know that certain areas can be confusing (I don’t tend to be a random gadget wiz, I only want to know what I want to use).  So what is PayPal? PayPal is owned by eBay and is designed “to be a safer way to send money [...]

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