Food And Education Open Doors

Food And Education Open Doors

by Joy Casey on Dec. 6 We left an hour after sunrise this morning, heading to two church plants I have been following with pictures and reports but have never actually seen.  Riding through the town on our way out, we pass women starting cooking fires and sweepers...
A Church And A Mosque

A Church And A Mosque

by Joy Casey on Dec. 5 We are headed into the heart of an unreached people group.  We passed many mosques — all sizes and shapes — shrouded women and men wearing the distinctive hats of this tribe. It sobered me to think that 99% of these precious people...
A Country Church – Ethiopian Style

A Country Church – Ethiopian Style

by Joy Casey on Dec. 4 I have butterflies in my stomach, and it is not because of the food or anything else organic.  We are on our way to a village Jason and I visited three years ago – a village without a church and very few Christ-followers.  Since then, the church...
Penetrating A Culture

Penetrating A Culture

by Joy Casey on Dec. 3 Prayer boring?  Not so! Jason, Jeff, Fessessework, Abebe and I walked into a room filled with 16 of our missionaries on their knees deep in prayer.  We quietly took our place alongside them.  Spending three hours in prayer on a Saturday morning...
A Cornstalk Church

A Cornstalk Church

by Joy Casey on Dec. 2 How I wish you could have been with us today!  I know when you hear my stories you will understand what I mean, but I have to admit that getting to the church we visited was an ordeal.  Even though we were in a four-wheel-drive, the craters in...
“We see the love of God!”

“We see the love of God!”

by Becky Burns When I was in the grocery store this week, the woman in line in front of me said, “I used to fill five bags with groceries.  Now I can barely afford to fill three.”  All of us here in the U.S. are feeling the effects of rising costs for food and other...