Four years medical school ~$180,000 Plane tickets to Ethiopia for family of seven  ~$13,000 Meds & equipment for a bush medical outreach ...

Sometimes Life is Life, no matter where you are. The past three weeks have been full of battling bugs here in Addis. I think we have...

TARA : 1st mission : September 9, 2012 The kids are in their pajamas…running wildly outside. Expectation. Hope. Longing for their...

You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous...

Please pray now…God has called Dave and I to partner in one of the most eternal things I think we’ve ever been invited into…pray every...

“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms, it means a strong desire to live, taking the form of readiness to die.” ~GK Chesterton~...

Here’s what the Ayer Tribe is up to…we prepared together, prayed together, packed medicines and sat in awe together. Today we sent Dave...

Maija’s PRAYER…She is SEEING. She’s getting it. “Jesus please bless all of us in this room tonight. Thank you for our warm house and...

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just have to share an “Africa day” with all of you. Tsega is getting married on Saturday and we’ve been joining in on some of the...

ALL the kids with my awesome teacher, Abebe…He told his friend last week he would miss his own wedding day to be with our Tribe!! WOW!!...

We love the “Starbucks” of Addis–KALDIS!! The very best coffee…the kids are already becoming buna lovers!!

Can I learn this? Can I learn to SEE Him in this woman crouched beneath a ragged blanket, who can’t look me in the eyes?  Can I learn to...

Today Dave and I are sitting in a beautiful place…it feels like we are outside of this country.  I don’t really like that too much, but...

How can it already be July?!?  I sit and watch the rain come down, sideways…the clouds rumble. I love this, the washing. Washing away the...

Our morning walk to school has become our time for SEEING JESUS…for LOVING HIM, in those distressing disguises…the blind, the widows,...

I stink at resting…some how through poor discipline, fatigue or whatever else I’ve managed to spend a lot of my life embracing in the...

25 june 2012~monday During the night, I felt Dave violently shaking.  He was so cold.  I heard the bath water running.  He couldn’t...

We did it!! Dave jokingly said, “One week down, 23 to go!”  But we really loved our first week of Amharic lessons.  It is amazing how a...

Friday, 22 June 2012 Today we woke up to nightmares. It’s Dave’s 35th birthday. We pray and celebrate. I went to school for 4 hours to...