Today, A huge Day

Going into an Orphanage from Tom Davis
So my plan today was to write about the adventure of driving 20 hours on a bus over absolutely ridiculous roads, dodging livestock (donkeys, cows, goats) camels, and human beings all along the way. Ramming and killing a small cow (originally thought to be a goat) with our [...]

Some Pictures

Pictures from Tom Davis’s Facebook update:

Day TWO

This blog update is coming from my phone while lying under a mosquito net deep in the heart of Ethiopia so please excuse the brevity.
Today was spectacular, comical, heartbreaking, treacherous, educational and humbling all mixed together – a cocktail of emotions, of which words alone can not describe, which left a bitter sweet taste in [...]

Day One in Ethiopia

This is Andrea blogging for right now. Pete has arrived in Ethiopia, and just sent me a message that said, “At our first orphanage now, kids are beautiful!” 
Oh, my heart! Right now the team is at the Promising Orphanage in Addis. 
Tomorrow they will be getting up early and heading 6 hours north of Addis to [...]

Discomfort Zone

A little less than a year ago my wife Andrea and I attended a holiday dinner party at the home of good friends of ours – the Smiths. In the classic tradition of this excellent hostess, each of the eight dinner guests was presented with a card containing a thought provoking question. Our task was [...]

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