Posts Tagged With: Harar
The Adventure Continues…
Driving to the airport was surreal. Watching Ethiopia’s lumpy landscape fall away below the airplane was even more surreal. The trip was long, but I made it, baggage and all!, to American soil. The US customs line felt a little bit like the entrance to Disney World with its adornments of flat screen TVs showing [...]
Water Baptism!
We are both wearing sheetees for the occasion. A group of witnesses has gathered around the makeshift baptismal font – three benches overlaid with orange tarp, filled with enough water to submerge a person in and held down with rocks and jugs. It is late in the afternoon, but still warm. Eden is smiling but [...]
Theirs is the Kingdom
As I turn the corner I walk into the sunlight. I spend some time with Adriana, one of our disciples who works as a typist. I greet the sweet girl next to her who sits selling bananas; she is always wearing a blue headscarf and a tiny black tattoo of a cross marks her forehead. [...]

