All roads lead to Ethiopia

Road #1: Derek’s Calendar all started when our friend, Derek, served for a couple years at MTW’s AIDS project in Addis Ababa. Between book club and our Global Outreach [GO] Team at church, we see a lot of Derek and he still has a lot of Ethiopia connections.

Road #2: The president of the non-profit with which we are heavily involved returned from Ethiopia in February with a huge burden to minister to a Jewish community with a Messianic Rabbi in the heart of Addis. Grafted Families/ICARE will Lord-willing play an active part in supporting his community (especially in their care for their orphans and widows).

Road #3: Welcoming Angels’ pilot program was with kids from Ethiopia.  As event and donation coordinator, we had a lot of interaction time with all the kids and they stole our hearts!

With all the Ethiopia buzz in the air, we were feeling pretty certain that our next adoption would be from Ethiopia.  Our interactions with AWAA during Welcoming Angels gave us lots of opportunities to get to know their staff and their philosophy.  We knew an Ethiopian adoption through AWAA was probably in our future but we weren’t sure when.  Then we went to Summit and felt God’s calling to continue to walk outside of our comfort zone as we sought to care for orphans around the world.  We came away with lots of ministry ideas but also a specific personal calling.

Then, Patrick said something along the lines of “Let’s see what it would take to bring a sibling group home from Ethiopia.”

And our second adoption journey began.

To date we have submitted our pre-app, our application, and received our acceptance into AWAA’s Ethiopia program.

All updates will be filed under Adoption Updates if you want to follow along.

We’ll also post an adoption timeline on the right all the way at the bottom.