Entries Tagged as ‘About Ethiopia’

July 25, 2009

Together for Adoption

Hopefully we’ll be attending this conference again this fall.  We encourage you to visit the website www.togetherforadoption.org

March 6, 2009

At Fikadu’s house

Over the last few weeks we’ve been able to communicate well enough with the kids to start learning about their home in Ethiopia.  It started when I showed Fikadu and Tigist the video we created to show when we passed court (see post on Jan 2nd).  In it I had a photo of a mudhut [...]

October 21, 2008

God is VERY Good, ALL the time

If I ever had any doubts, and yes I’ve certainly had my days. . . please let me never forget God’s faithfulness and unending kindness.  If you have checked out our funding our adoption page recently you’ve seen that we still have a lot to save and raise for our adoption.  
A few weeks ago [...]

September 5, 2008

Born in September

You should check this out!
www.borninseptember.org

March 10, 2008

Ethiopian Facts

These are some facts that I’ve copied from the Gibson Family site.  I wanted those who read here to have an idea about some staggering statistics in Ethiopia.
Did you know in Ethiopia:

One in ten children die before their first birthday
One in six children die before their fifth birthday
44% of the population of Ethiopia is under [...]