The community mission team was taught how to plant coffee and mango trees.  Take a look at their progress below:

The community mission team was able to walk and pray over most of HOPEthiopia’s land.  The following pictures give you an idea of what their day was like.

The prayer team from Addis joined us in Harbu Chulule for 3 days. They came to pray for the land, the people, and our team. It was a great experience to participate together in the restoration of the community.

The following pictures are from the elementary sports camp the community missions team organized.

While visiting Ethiopia the mission team takes time to drive back to Addis to participate in a church service at the Faith Bible International church. Only open for a couple of months the church now has more than 1000 people attending.

Hello again, friends and family of HOPEthiopia! Having spoke with the team last night, I am please to inform you that they are alive and well, and having a blast!  Thus far, they have reforested several plots of land, conducted a workshop at a local high school (with more than 100 participants!), and painted several [...]

The Hopethiopia team takes some time out in Wolisso, a medium sized town located about 130km SW of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. This was our home for 2 weeks and proved to be a very comfortable and inviting place. The team stayed at the Belay hotel. The local market in Wolisso. Judging by the amout of [...]

While staying in Wolisso the mission team would occasionally visit Negash Lodge, a beautiful retreat lodge that was full of Wildlife, exotic vegetation, and wonderful cultural architecture. Uzo goes for a swing on the vines found in the lush vegetation of Negash Lodge. The team takes time to visit Negash Lodge. Here they sit on [...]

To provide some practical assistance to the community the mission team helped paint the local health care centre. Some of the local high school students decided to come out and help the team paint.  It turned out that “rollers” were a novel concept for Ethiopians that made to whole painting process much quicker.

To provide a valuable keepsake for the high school students the mission team lead a craft time  where the students made a self photo picture and frame that they were able to customize

Over the 2 days that the mission team ran the leadership camp we had at least 100 students participate enthusiastically. The team got the students to report out the findings of the mind mapping exercises and creativity was rewarded with some snazzy Hopethiopia prizes. Glenda leads the report out session. Winners of the report out [...]

Day 1 of the High School leadership camp began with some fun out of the box activities including: Dress like a Canadian, sing some songs, answer the “Top 10″ questions. The team had fun getting to know 100 grade 9 and 10 students from the local high school. We then moved into some mind mapping [...]