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

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...

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!!

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...

I am sitting outside…the air is cool and a bit fresher from our afternoon rain.  The children are yelling and playing nearby…the birds...

Today is Evie’s 3rd BIRTHDAY! Oh, we love our delightful, STRONG-willed Evie-bear! She has been an amazing trooper in all the transitions...

18 June 2012 The morning dawns…the sky is filled with haze, sounds of chanting prayers rising against a city still sleeping. The birds...

The past 10 days have been full…full of learning, observing, hurting, delighting, thanking.  Dad left just 2 days ago…it left a bigger...

D-Day is HERE!! We are moving to Ethiopia TODAY!! I woke with a whisper in my ear this morning…but Dave was still asleep!! Was Jesus...

The initiative against drudgery Arise, shine. Isaiah 60:1. We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to...

And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘The LORD.’ And I will be gracious to whom...

My heart is longing and learning to see Him in them…I wrestle day to day…to live here and have my heart in two worlds…the longing is...

This is an unbelievable picture of something that has drastically altered the lives of the people who will soon be our neighbors…This...

Here's the Pediatric ward at Soddo Christian Hospital...most likely it will need to expand a bit from it's 3 beds once Dave arrives!!...

This deserves a VERY long post…which will come….later. But for now, we are SO grateful to have a very sleepy, jet-lagged,...