This is an interview with an incredible Father and leader of a family of six children – soon to be nine! I conducted this interview with Steve just one week before he departed for Ethiopia to adopt his 7th, 8th and 9th children. Steve’s heart and compassion comes through so clearly in this video as [...]
Nearly three years ago, shortly after making the decision to adopt a baby girl from Africa, Andrea and I had an after dinner conversation that ended up laying the foundation for a mission and a passion that we never could have imagined.
As we sat around our dinner table that night, we were just beginning the [...]
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Each Christmas brings with it a story that is often told yet rarely truly heard – a story of an adopted baby (adopted by his father Joseph) who came into the earth in the most humble of circumstances, yet ultimately proved Himself to be the Light of the world.
This Christmas I’d like to share a [...]
Admittedly my past several posts have been a little ‘heavy’ at times – which is easy to do when you’re in the environment we were in. So I wanted to take the time to share with you just a few of the lighter moments of the trip, of which there were many. Because for each [...]
Home sweet home…..
We left our guest house in Addis Ababa at 10:30 am yesterday, and I arrived home at about 10:30 am today. A 24 hour trek that was about as smooth and uneventful as I could have possibly hoped – a sharp contrast to the exciting twists and turns that we experienced abroad.
For now [...]
Today was a day like no other…
This morning I departed from the rest of the team to join Tom Davis and a small team to visit a very special project in the village of Nazaret (a.k.a. Adama) about 1.5 hours from Addis Ababa. While there we visited the Look Development Association care point – a [...]
Greetings from Addis Ababa Ethiopia! It’s getting late and we’ve been running on (diesel) fumes over the last couple of days so I’m goint to keep this short. Any of you who’ve been to Addis understand my diesel reference – the pollution in this city is unbelievable. While driving you are constantly sucking the fumes [...]
This is an excerpt from a worship service that the orphans conducted on our behalf – it was the most exhilarating service that I’ve experienced in quite a long time.
