Thanks so much for all of the great ideas on our shoe sourcing problem for the kids in our program here in Ethiopia, we received more than 50 messages from people who are willing to help out with stuffing their luggage full of shoes, we are still sorting through all of the messages now, but …

With 45 kids in our direct care, and another 91 in the sponsorship program, we pass out an incredible number of shoes. Way more than I would ever have guessed if you had asked me a few years ago.   These kids wear holes in the bottom of their shoes like nobodies business.  It’s incredible. …

A beautiful moment with three of Tedbab’s girls while they took a walk together.   I need not say how happy this makes my heart…

You might already know this, but it was a surprise to me.  Holidays all around the world are not necessarily on the same calendar, for that matter many countries are not on the same calendar or clock as America’s either, as I sit here and write this in Ethiopia it is the year 2005, and although I …

Since we began, since the idea of creating families from widows and orphans in Ethiopia was just that, an idea, we have spoken of how we wanted this ministry to be sustainable. But gosh I hate that word, I hate how it has been used to mean so many different things over the years that …