Ethiopia
Long overdue, I want to invite you to a walk-through of the time God allowed me to spend in Ethiopia this summer! Over a year before, in May of 2024, my sister called me while I was on outreach with Youth with a Mission. She told me that our dad's Ethiopian coworker, Zemen, wanted us to pray about coming the following summer to help them teach English over the school break. As we prayed, God made a way for Grace, Michelle (a young woman from my church in Chicago), and I to teach English in Salutta, Ethiopia for two weeks. Michelle and I arrived first. Zemen and his nine-year-old daughter, Kaku, brought us to breakfast before driving us to the ministry center in Salutta, about an hour's drive outside of the capital. Kaku began teaching us Amharic the moment we got the in car! The new ministry center in Salutta. We spent our first few nights here as we prepared to teach. The view from Grace and I's third floor room. The Lord is full of surprises! Grace and I never thought abo...