Wishing Many Blessings on My Ethiopian Family this new year.

It seems so surreal that I have been home from Ethiopia for two months.  I still feel such a strong connection to all of the wonderful people that I met.  Oh how I miss them all!!  This Christmas season has been hard on me.  Not just missing everyone, but realizing how commercialized Christmas has become in America has been a slap in the face.  I always on some level knew that the vast majority of Americans have taken the real meaning out of Christmas but after experiencing everything that I did in Ethiopia and then coming back to the USA during the Christmas season. . .let’s just say it was a huge eye-opener.  Christmas is a time to reflect on the greatest gift that God has given us.  There is no gift that could ever compare to the gift of Jesus. 

I wish countless blessings upon Blessing the Children, the orphans, and the impoverished widows of Debre Zeyit.  I pray that God compels people to give great blessings to these people.  They of course always need financial blessings, but they also need missionaries to come and serve.   The need is so great but the smallest of gifts can change a life forever. 

It is my wish for the New Year that God uses me as a spokesperson for BCI to my family and friends.  Nothing would make me happier then to know that a child was sponsored because of my experience in Ethiopia.  I pray that my family and friends seriously pray about sponsoring one or more of these precious children.  These are the children that need help:  http://blessingthechildren.org/Adana/Child_Info.pdf

“Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you.”  (James 1:27 NLT)  I wonder what the world would look like if everyone who claimed to be a Christian lived by this verse?

For more information on how you can help, please visit:  http://www.blogger.com/www.blessingthechildren.org.

Here is an article I wrote for BCI:  http://www.blessingthechildren.ca/Forms/BCC_Post_2010-11.pdf