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Praise the Lord! On December 1, 2006, the Turkana Bible Training Institute (TBTI) was pleased to celebrate its first ever graduation! Let me share some highlights....
We are amazed at the way everything worked out for the graduation to even happen. We are always thankful for rain in Turkana, and give thanks to God for a very abundant rainy season this October and November. However, rain also forces plans to change. For us, it disrupted our graduation plans in about three different ways.
First, our guest speaker, former missionary to Turkana and currently working with the Urban Poor in Nairobi, Keith Ham, and his son Jonathan (Patrick's friend), were flying up on Thursday and were forced to return to Nairobi due to dangerous storm clouds. They were able to reschedule a flight on Friday, and were due to arrive at 10AM, the same time graduation was scheduled to begin; we were grateful they could arrive at all.
Ethiopian Educational Endeavor is a new mission founded by Nathnael Tadesse to feed their minds and change their lives. Children’s lives change when … Educated people establish safe learning and teaching environments. Compassionate people implement comprehensive human development education. Committed people sacrifice to feed knowledge and commence an enduring relationship. Feel free to contact Nathnael about EEE at: Email Education@eeeinc.org. I met Bimnet and Tariku, a sister and brother who just relocated to Addis Ababa from Soddo.
Hello Friends and Family,
The time has finally come! We've moved out of our apartment, our visas and passports have arrived and our bags are almost completely packed in preparation for our move to Ethiopia. We depart this Thursday, March 9th. We have been looking forward to this time for so long and we are thankful that we are finally on our way to Ethiopia! We want to thank each one of you for the part you have played in helping us reach this goal: for your thoughts your financial support, and mostly for your prayers. We ask that you keep us in your thoughts and prayers in the coming weeks as we begin our new life in Ethiopia.
Upon coming home to our tiny village of Kosikiria the last week of January, Katy and I were not feeling the zeal and romantic fervor for missions and living in Africa we first felt when we arrived in Turkana in 1999. Nope. We were feeling the heat, the dusty wind; the pressures of a community that expects too much from us. No matter what we give or how we help, more is always expected from us. We could feel the lightness of the last couple weeks of vacation time with visiting family quickly evaporating. The burdens of the community and of living in the desert were returning, uncomfortably hot and dirty, on our backs.
