Seeing Ethiopia With Fresh Eyes

Seeing Ethiopia With Fresh Eyes

by Joy Casey I am having a wonderful adventure with a group of people from Olathe, Kansas who are part of LifeMission Church, an exceptionally vibrant missional church. Everyone on the team are people I would choose to hang out with – we are the same “tribe” with...
The One Who Respects Women

The One Who Respects Women

by Dinah Monahan Dinah is the founder and director of Psalm 51 ministries and has traveled with Joy many times to Ethiopia.  Her forte is encouraging women coming out of Islam to stand in the freedom God has for them as beloved and cherished daughters of the King. ...
God Rescues the One

God Rescues the One

by Joy Casey I am winding down my time in Ethiopia and have a few hours to myself to ponder all that God has done, is doing and wants to do going forward.  Thoughts are spinning in my head as I recall the individuals God has called out of Is!am and what it has cost...
Easter Dinner and Adoption Touchpoints

Easter Dinner and Adoption Touchpoints

by Joy Casey  I am back in the capital city of Addis Ababa.  My work in the countryside is done and now I switch gears to a cosmopolitan atmosphere with all the trappings that go with a city of 5.5 million residents.  Bad roads defined the first week of travel,...
Adoption – Re-writing Life Stories

Adoption – Re-writing Life Stories

by Joy Casey  You would think after the decades I have worked in the adoption field stories of how God places children in just the right family would be old hat.  Same-ol’-same-ol’ … or something like that.  Just the opposite is true.  Each adoption is like a...
Hearing God’s Word!

Hearing God’s Word!

by Joy Casey “Church starts at 8?” I ask. “Yes,” Zerihun replies. “How long will it take to get there?” “Oh, about 20-30 minutes.” “Then we need to leave no later than 7:30,” I reply. “Oh, no.  Probably leaving at 8 will be fine.” Relax, Joy, and remember that...