stephen.melanie.ethiopia

Hey everyone! Been a while since we have posted to the blog, so it's about time now!

A couple weeks ago we had the chance to head up to the Northern part of Ethiopia for one week. The north is where much of Ethiopia gets it's culture and history from, so it was great to see how the people of the highlands there live! We visited Lalibela, a town with 12 rock hewn (dug out of the rock) churches, where much of the legend surrounding the Ethiopian Orthodox Church originates. Then we bussed on to Gondar, which one dynasty called home around the 17th century. From there we visited Bahir Dar, the home of the Blue Nile River and Blue Nile Falls. Here's a link to the photos! Copy and paste.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=114540&id=528313572&l=799e8249d8

In other news, we have the great blessing of having an addition to our team here in Tikempt Ishet for the time being. Ben Skaggs, the first missionary to the Me'en (in 1992) and the only foreigner to really speak the Me'en language has joined us to assist in the work of discipling this young and struggling Church towards maturity in Christ. We're trying to learn as much of the Me'en language (which is actually kind of fun!) as we can while he's here as well as asking lots of questions of someone who has 30 years of history in Africa.

Please pray for our language learning, that God would open our ears and our brains to another new language so the we would be able to speak in the heart language of those we came to serve!

Tuma ga Shei! (God is Good, in Me'en)