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Letter from Janelle and Mike McCarty in
Dembi Dollo
Letter
& Request for Teacher - March
2007
Market Day
Hello Friends and Family,
It is so hard to think of how to begin telling you about
our time here in Dembi Dollo. We’ve been here now for a week and
a half. I (Janelle) started teaching my four eleventh- and twelfth-grade
classes last week. I think we’re finally starting to feel settled
into our home. We are all quite healthy. We think we’ve decided on
how much house help we can hire for. Also, today Adanuu will come with
her 3-year-old daughter Loewmee to watch Carolee for the day (Mike will
be here all day, also). We’ve become friends with the other four forenjis
(foreigners) here and are getting to know the other teachers and staff
here at the school quite well. Read More
Janelle and Mike McCarty
PO Box 151
Dembi Dollo
Ethiopia
Email: Janelle
and Mike McCarty
John and Gwen
Haspels
John and Gwenyth Haspels work on
a multiphase project in Ethiopia that would be taxing to the patience
of almost anyone. It took the Haspels four years to receive work permits
and resident visas from the Ethiopian government for phase I of the
project. "We have been learning to wait on and trust in the Lord," said
Gwenyth. Phase I of the project is devoted to construction of a 70-kilometer
road to Tum and a second road through the mountains to the Surma people
in Kibish, and also the development of a good water system for Tum. Phase
II of the project is a comprehensive program that includes evangelism,
education, medical care, and development work. The Haspels' work is being
carried out at the invitation of the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane
Yesus.
Read
more.
John and Gwenyth Haspels
Box 1111
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
Marie "Breezy" Lusted
Box 1111
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
Email:
Marie Lusted
Marie
Lusted retired after 49 years of service in November 2004. She may have
sat down for a few minutes, but we're not sure, because she went right
back to Ethiopia to continue her work translating the Bible into Anuak,
this time as a long-term volunteer.
Marie—known to most as "Breezy"—has been interested in Bible translation
since 1957 during her first assignment at the Pokwo Clinic in western
Ethiopia. While working as a nurse at the Pokwo and Gilo clinics, she
got involved in the mission’s literature program, helping to proofread
the New Testament in Anuak as it was typeset at Pokwo.
Prevented by the political situation from returning to Pokwo, she
has been living in Addis Ababa, the capital, since 1979 where, in addition
to her translation work, she assists in summer training courses for Anuak
church leaders and since 1998 has again been assigned to supervise the work
of the Pokwo and Gilo clinics.
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Dorothy Russell
Hanson
PCUSA Consultant on AIDS - East
Africa
Dorothy Hanson
PO Box 1111
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
Email: Dorothy
Hanson
News and Letters from Dorothy
Update
on Bethel Synod Coordination Office Wall
October 10, 2005
As promised, news of the wall between
BSCO and the road. It is going up - there was work before I left but
it was back in the corner of the compound and I could not see it.
Of course all of this is behind the tin sheets on the road.
I'm taking pictures and will send when it is complete. Last
week they called me into the store room to see and photograph that a
wall is being built inside. Then they will tear out exising wall
of the store room, etc. Two meters of land are lost in this change.
This week they laid the foundation and began to lay the blocks for the
guard house which will be on the right, under the big tree, as you enter
the gate (now on the left).
Tomorrow, October 10, Parliament is scheduled to open.
I spoke with Dr. Negasso Gidada this afternoon. He was elected
as an independent and he went for the orientation today. One
major obstacle remains to opening Parliament peacefully - the largest
opposition party, the CUDP, has not made a decision whether to take
their seats or not (at issue the fact that many more were elected but
the returns were 'disturbed'). The talks that were held here this
past week accomplished only one thing - a new law for parliamentary
procedure, according to Dr N. These were the first talks between
ruling, opposition parties and were attended by US and EU reps - people
expected much more and are disapppointed but one week ago there were threats
of strikes and those were averted. What about this week?
Please continue to pray for the patient people of Ethiopia.
More news from Dorothy Hanson.
John and Anne Wheeler-Waddell
When they returned to Ethiopia in May 2004 John and Anne
joined the teaching staff of the Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology
(EGST) in Addis Ababa. Started in 1997, EGST is the first graduate
theological school in Ethiopia offering masters level training in
systematic theology, biblical studies, and church history. John and
Anne have been asked to help develop an emphasis in missiology, as
the churches in Ethiopia are experiencing tremendous growth among
many different people groups across the country.
Read
more.
John and Anne Wheeler-Waddell
P.O. Box 1111
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Email: Anne
and John Wheeler-Waddell
Newsletters
posted: Easter
- April 2006
December 1, 2006
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Michael and Rachel
Weller Family
Rachel and Michael Weller, along with
their four children, have served in Ethiopia since September 1994.
Michael responded to a call to serve in the area of evangelism and
leadership training with the Western Wollega Bethel Synod (WWBS) of the
Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus.
May 2005: Living in Addis
Ababa, attending school and church in English, and being surrounded
by so many people whose first language is English, makes us feel somewhat
removed from the people we came to work with. There are days when
we wonder why we have to live in the city, seemingly out of the mainstream
of the lives of our friends in Dembi Dollo. But we continue our relationships with
people far west of Addis in various ways, and we are making new connections
here, too. And when we think about it, we realize this is what
it means to be in partnership: Living daily life side by side. Recently,
we haven’t had spectacular experiences and neither have the vast
majority of our Ethiopian brothers and sisters. As they continue
faithfully in their lives as Christian fathers, mothers, teachers,
nurses, secretaries, managers, etc., so do Michael and I, along with
our children. Read more.
Michael and Rachel Weller
November 2, 2007 - Letter
from Rachel
PO Box 1111
March 6, 2008 - Letter
from Rachel
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
Email: Michael
and Rachel Weller
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