Sometimes people with the least love the most...

  This past week several of my adoption girlfriends went on a mission trip with Visiting Orphans to Ethiopia for about a week and a half and volunteered with various non profit groups. I was so thankful that they were able to document their trip with pictures. I can not express in words how impactful these pictures were to me. It brought back many memories of my own mission trip to El Salvador and to Malawi and how people with so little seem to have so much love....the faces of the Ethiopian people were just as amazing, such love and thankfulness. Not only did it remind me how important mission work is but it also gave me more hope in our adoption and a better connection to the country. I was reminded how big the world is and how I am responsible for how I spend my money and my time and that it is NOT all about me....

  I would love to share with you some of the organizations that they partnered with:

    Visiting Orphans

non-profit organization to be the hand and feet of Jesus to the 163 million Orphans by visiting them, loving them and sharing the gospel with them.      http://www.visitingorphans.org/
   




Children's HopeChest

 An organization that connects communities in the US to impoverished communities overseas. http://www.hopechest.org



Project 61


Hamlin Fistula Hospital

   A relief organization assisting with community development in Ethiopia. Specifically, P61 focuses on orphan care, equipping communities and empowering local leaders.
http://p61.org/

A treatment center for Women with the most devastating childbirth injury, a fistula,  which in Ethiopia creates a woman unsanitary and an outcast from her community. http://www.hamlinfistula.org/index.html

I am so thankful these past few years that the spark for mission work is lit again. Missions is such an integral part of  who I am and I know helped keep me going through some dark days of my teen years. I seem to have forgotten as I got older just how life changing these events can be for both the volunteer missionary as well as those receiving. I urge you to find somewhere, weather it be across the ocean or across the street that you can volunteer and give your time. You will not regret it!