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Danaame

 Today the staff from Adis Ababa's Women at Risk and Ellilta/ FashionABLE have gone to Hosanna to meet with our Women's Training Center- Daname Ministries.

They are showing our women who have started making scarves just this October, how they can improve on the process. This will help in improving the quality of scarf making so they will be easily sold in stores in Ethiopia and the US. 

Here is our women intently listening and learning. They have come a long way. 

Make an IMPACT with your Year-end giving.

Make an IMPACT with your year-end giving.

We are grateful to all of you who walk alongside us in our ministry, we can not do this with out you.

While we get help and are in a partnership under Hosanna! Church as Missionaries. We still have needs that come up often that receiving gifts from supporters is also greatly needed to keep this ministry going.

The Ministry in Hosanna, Ethiopia is in its 5th year and we are approaching the fastest growth this year. Please be a part of what is going on in the many different areas of growth and watch as God continues to do the greatest of things.

We have some very pressing needs even at the moment and we are anxious and excited to see how God will provide.

Would you consider either blessing us with a one time gift OR donating Monthly.

GO to the Donate button on our website/blog and it will walk you through how to do so.

Click to Donate here:
fromhosannatohosannablog.blogspot.com 
You can also click on the hosanna logo above. 

If you have any questions or would like to set up a payment plan, please do not hesitate to contact me.

hosannatohosanna@gmail.com      Or simply reply to this e-mail.

A few of our immediate needs are:
1. Funds to keep the Women's Training Project running. This is supplies, Training materials, financial support for the Women and income for Teachers.

2. Our Ministry Staff works very hard for us and are not yet on a payroll. We give them what we can, when we have the funds. They are so gracious to do what they do without asking for money. They are the reason why the Ministry is running so smoothly.

3. Team needs to use for Children's supplies as we see needed from trip to trip.4. Help for Seminary Students who are still trying to finish up their Degree.

5. Funds to break ground on the new Discipleship Training Facility. This facility will allow all people to benefit from a Discipleship Model Training. Even our children who will age out of the Sponsorship program will be able to go through our Discipleship Program and Vocational Training to prepare them for their future. 

6. Also our second Care-Point is coming! We have another 200 children waiting to be sponsored and there is always the need to sponsor a child. You can also go on the website above and go to the Sponsor a Child button. Click (unsponsored)  Or you can give a one time donation to help with cost to start up the project.

If you would like your funds to be allocated to a certain Ministry, please just indicate that in an e-mail to me. Thank you.

Much love and blessings,

Marybeth Rolfe

Movement! Ministry Overview

                                                        

Reflecting on my trip and the last year of our Hosanna to Hosanna/Reach Point Ministry, my feeling overall if I can put it in one word would be "Movement"

The Lord reacts and is drawn to Movement. Like the women who bled for over 12 years. She got up went to Jesus and reached out to touch Him. This compelled Jesus, and He could not hold back.

This is what is happening in Hosanna, Ethiopia. The people are hungry. God speaks to them and through us from year to year. They act upon it and choose to move, and every year the encouraging words, the wisdom from the Lords heart is spoken and change happens. It only takes a bit of encouragement and vision from year to year in these different areas and when we come back the next year... there it is, it's in full movement. This is why this ministry has been as successful as it has been. The people see and know God is at work in them, and act upon it. Then this allows us to step away and let it be theirs. So beautiful isn't it? So as always I am again taken back by The Movement of God in this community.

 I was beyond blessed to have a good friend join me to help me in Ministry. Anna Mansfield, who moved to Germany with her family as Missionaries a little over a year ago from Hosanna! Church where she was on staff. She has walked this calling and journey to Hosanna, Ethiopia with us as God too was calling her into her own Ministry and journey.

This year I tried something a bit new and had Our HopeChest/Hosanna! Impact Team be lead by Debbie Erickson so I could really be engaged while in Ethiopia and not be so limited with my time. This allowed Anna and I to make a presence in all of our ministry areas and it proved to be very useful and productive as well as our presence was more engaging and sweet.

This first day we were there, we went to see for the first time the new Women's Training Center. The Mayor met us there for the opening Ceremony of the Launch of the Training Center. We all worshiped together, spoke of the Lords goodness, and watched the women do a skit of the story of their lives. It was beautiful, inspiring and so funny. It was great seeing them having fun and being silly even at the thought of where they were verses where they are now.

The Mayor presented us with scarves that the women had already made. After that ceremony the Mayor and I cut the ribbon on the New Women's Training Center. It took my breath away to see the room where the looms were and to think what this now meant for them. A new, sweet dignified living, a place for them to be the creative women they were created to be and and a place for friendship and growth.

Ribbon Cutting

  The Mayor, Nebiyu our Ministry Partner and Pastor Solomon at the Opening Ceremony for the Womens Training Center.

I was so taken back by the site, by the store and by the beautiful scarves they had already made. These women are very talented and they were beaming with pride. They far exceeded what we expected for them at this time and the scarves are already store ready. I brought them home to sell. So keep tuned for how to purchase or contact me if you'd like one... they are beautiful and a priceless thing to have as a conversation piece to aid them in prayer.

The money will go right back to the women for purchasing more product and needed items.Also stay tuned for the announcing of the the name of the Women's Ministry. God really spoke to us as I was sitting with Fantu the leader and her husband as we contemplated what He wanted this ministry to be named. I am so thrilled to bring this all together. We were all giddy with excitement as well. It has been 5 years we have been working on this. It is so fun to see what was a stirring in hearts, become reality.

Anna and I also spent an afternoon with the Seminary students. There were over 80 of them that Anna and I spoke to about stepping out and grabbing hold of that which God has called you to. We talked about "The Movement" and how when we move it draws God to move.  It was a sweet time with these incredible men and women. We are so encouraged to see these leaders seeing the vision of our Ministry and working alongside us, even though this to them means working with a church outside of their own. This is something we have encouraged and are seeing the evidence that they see and sense God is at work more in us when we all work together.

Our most amazing moments were again at the women's prison. Oh I wish words would do, or to even have pictures. To have this ministry to the women in this town and the women in this prison... what a divine plan. I love these women with my whole heart. Not a day goes by I do not think of them and the life they've been given, and the life I have been given. For this I press on... their faces... the
pain... the stories. I could say they are so different then I, but that would be far from the truth. They
 are just like me, they are alive, they are women, they are funny, crazy, and special, and they are chosen and I love them with all my heart. They keep me real, they keep me connected to remembering who I truly am without all the distractions, the assumptions, the comparisons, just real life... I need Jesus and nothing else. For once I saw in these women's eyes death, loneliness, hopelessness. Then Jesus came in and rocked their world! Now they just are. That's what I desire everyday... to just be.

After speaking to the Chief Prison Guard, Anna and I were anxious to go in to speak to the women after what God did last year, we were anticipating seeing them again. Before going in I asked the Prision Wardin if my friend Cammadoer Adissa was back after his 2 year Police transfer to Sudan... and indeed he was and to my delight met us there just 10 minutes later. You see, this is just not any Police Officer. This man has helped changed this town by the passion and presence of the Lord he carries. He also loves our friends at Hosanna! Church and is committed to helping us in anyway he can.

The first to greet us as we stepped into the gates of the prison walls, was the broken soul who God dramatically transformed her life right before our eyes, just one year ago. She was in Priosn for Murdering a baby out of spite for her neighbor. They brought her to me and said she needed prayer as she was demon possessed. There was no life in her eyes, and she looked almost dead. You can read the full story on an earlier blog post. In short she was fully restored that day. I was delighted to see she was not in solitary Confinement anymore and was the most beautiful, alive women I have ever seen. Talk about a Makeover, a Heart Transplant and Personality Change all in one. What a difference Life in the soul... in the bones... and in the heart makes.

Emmebet is her name and she was now leading us in worship!!! I had to take a moment and lift my face to the one who makes Beauty out of ashes, and takes the desolate and makes them breathtakingly beautiful. This is where words cannot explain... the joy! Oh the joy! So different from last year. It amazes me what God can do with a group of women as we brought a message last year of how they are not alone! God see's them, hears them and is walking this with them. They believed it as it was all they had, they owned it, received it and walked in it. It again was the Movement that cause God to be drawn to.

Anna and I spoke to the women of how we get out of step sometime with the Lord, and how we only need to step right back in line with Him. He uses the yuck, and the trials for good. We encouraged them to see this time as a beautiful time with the Lord. That they will look back at it sometime and say, "that what a precious time."  Loud shouts of amens and halliujiahs and the native Elillta shouts were evidence they again we're embracing the words The Lord had that day were for them. Anna spoke after me and had them repeat truth in scripture after scripture about what it says in the Bible of who we are. They spoke these truths with such confidence and shoots of excitement... it was powerful and beautiful to hear. Then another powerful word came from Commander Addisa! How amazing is that to have Hosanna's Commander speak life into these women. They in return blessed him. That what so sweet and extremely touching. We have a unique relationship with him, and God showed the Commander and I this as we talked and shared together that it was evident that he is key for us in the future plans of Hosanna, Ethiopia!

 We were able to pass out clothing for each women this time there were 53 women and we had 54 shirts. One left over for a sweet little boy of one of the moms in prison who seemed to need it very much. God knows and sees you too sweet one.

Anna, Cole and I were able to take about half of the children of the Care Point over to the 50+ acres that that Mayor has given us to pray over the land. Plans were drawn up, meetings with plans  and regulations with government happened and now its all up to God. Please walk with us in prayer as this will be a multifaceted Life Center for the vision of the whole community in mind.

There are several big things in the making that we are working on that we will reveal in the proper time. Please know your prayers and involvement are so needed, especially now.

Please also keep in your prayers our key Ministry Leader that lives in Addis! He is constantly at work with us to help oversee all that is happening in our Ministry when we are not there. He has a beautiful  wife Sigrut and three beautiful boys, one just over a month old. He is gifted and devoted to this ministry and we could not do it without him.

             Our Key Ministry Leader in Ethiopia, Nebiyu, Cole my son and Anna Manfield and I have our first cup of Hosanna, Coffee! (Buna)

I wanted to thank you for all your love and support in this Ministry. It is rare that a Ministry like this can even happen or stay afloat when we are not working on the ground but working from here and its maturing just as fast as if we were there. Or I could argue to say that it is actually moving quite faster because we are removed and they are taking ownership and God is allowed to be the one that does the changing. We'd love to see this type of model multiply and feel that is Gods plan for us to do so. It's defiantly a model the Lord is creating and showing us to create and Train Disciples to go and Disciple others themselves. Just as the example Jesus modeled for us to do.

Sometimes this seems very overwhelming as these amazing things are happening it is usually partnered for us with private battles in which we never foresaw when we choose to step out in this calling. It has been such a blessing watching these children grow, and thrive. It has been humbling to walk side by side with leaders and help equip them to see the Kingdom advanced, and it has been an honor to walk alongside women who were delivered from prostitution, and who are facing life sentences. The Lord is revealing to us this is just the beginning. "There is more," He says. So as we learn how to balance this Missionary Journey with a busy family life that in itself is it's own journey, we are asking you to please help us walk this however that looks to you. We need the support and encouragement the guidance and wisdom. Since we are doing this from here, it requires much balance and discipline, as well as determination and vision.


Below is a link to our Nonprofit ReachPoint Ministry page. If you feel led to partner with us financially here is the link to do so.

http://www.globalhz.org/what-we-do/church-partnerships/reach-point/

We are so grateful for the partnerships we have with the different organizations that are working with us. HopeChest, Women at Risk, and above all the support from our Church Staff, friends and Congregation from Hosanna! Church. We love you all and look forward to what the Lord is going to do in this "More" together.           


                                                   Other Projects and Pictures



Last Spring Cole helped with the fundraising at Power life and Catalyst Youth Group at Hosanna!, Church. They raised over $4,000 for a Motorcycle so they are able to get to the children's homes easier then on foot. The Motorcycle had just arrived a week prior to our arrival. This was so fun for Cole to have helped fundraise and speak on his experience in Ethiopia 3 years prior, and then he got to actually be there to see the bike in full use and how in benefits the kids greatly.

       Motorcycle Fundraising!

 

              

                                                             

                                                           
This is the first of 5 Water Kiosk that Hosanna! Church is helping us put in, in a wide spread area for the use of all the community. It is also providing jobs for 5 workers, this is one of the beautiful ones who is benefiting from the newly built Water Kiosk. This one is right in front of our Children's HopeChest Sponsorship Program.
                                                         



                           Water Kiosk

 

                                                                                  

Overview of 2014 Team Trip to Hosanna.

I apologize it has taken me this long to post on the blog. I was anticipating having more time to blog, and as you read you will see our trip was full. I hope to do justice to the Greatness of God in a summery of our trip. Impossible to do so, but I will try.

As always I am so grateful for the presence of a team and what they bring to the children. It was a smaller team just 5 of them, but they accomplished much and brought the love of all of the sponsored families with them.

It is such a joy to watch new eyes see the bigness of God at work in the lives of these Children as well as what He is doing in the community as a whole. Sometimes hard to grasp and also explain to many who have not experienced it.

The Team was able to play and interact with the children much more then before, this was fun and we got to know the kids on a new level this year. Its precious when one gets to see and meet their Sponsored family for the first time. The connection this brings for all the kids weather they get to see their own family is so impactful for all.

It means there is really someone that is praying for them, someone thinking of them and is actively making it possible for them to have a life that is changed and who brings hope to their precious thoughts and ease to loved ones that too are impacted.

 It was precious seeing the kids each receive their Bibles. So exciting to know they now all have a Bible... what better could we bring to these babes then the Word of God and the knowledge of the importance of it and how they fit in that beautiful story. 

The Team brought the message of the importance of the the word to the children with stories, songs, and crafts. The kids in return love to share what they have learned and seem to be opening up more and more as they grow and learn about who they are. It has been personally fun watching their comfortableness with the team and that they are now confident we are walking beside them, and are "doing life together" You can tell, they feel it more every time a team comes and represents you, our Sponsored Families as well as Jesus the one who has made this all so possible. 

Having teams come to the children has been a sweet part of the ministry we are doing in Hosanna! It effects all the areas we are working in and brings all of the ministries together. It is so fun to see the Pastors at the Seminary come to help the kids out, the Women in the Training Center love on and help the children, The Mayor is always telling us thank you for what we are doing with the kids. It's powerful and so a part of Gods amazing plan here in Hosanna! 

To keep this all in perspective please know what you are doing is so much bigger then just child Sponsorship. God is changing a community in a very big and dramatic way. I have to say I am personally so honored to be a a part of what God is doing. Its sometimes overwhelming as He continues to reveal the vision of what He is doing. This trip I was just that, extremely overwhlemed as God continues to reveal the future to us. It's bigger then we ever thought, yet it we always knew it was as God has laid these steps out only in His Greatness could.  

We  ask that you continue with us in prayer as we press in for the greater picture and the firm voice of the Lord in the next steps. We value your prayers and your partnership in this ministry. I will be posting  In the next few days the overview summery of what God is doing in the ministry as what He did on this trip regarding. 

For now I am grateful for this team for Debbie Erickson for leading it and for all God did in and through them. Please pray with me as they transition back home and process for themselves what good things the Lord has in store for them. I am also very grateful for each one of you our Sponsors, prayer supporters, family and friends. It takes us all to accomplish what is being done and what God did on this very trip. 

Ethiopia Team 2014 Schedule!!

Prayer Request and Vision for upcoming Trip!!

              

This year has been a big year of growth in our Ministry in many ways, and we are so excited to see things opening up and developing in all of the 5 focus areas in Hosanna, Ethiopia.

A very special focus of ours is on our precious sponsored children. This is the third time we've had a Team go and interact with the children, most of whom are sponsor families. We have a team of 5 deep in preparation for their trip to work with the 300 children. They will be gone November 1st-10th. 

This time they will bring Bibles to the children in their Amharic Language. They will then focus on the importance of the Word, reading the Word, spending time in the Word and sharing the Word. 

Please pray for Debbie Erickson as she leads her first Team. The team members names are Bruce, Sue, Dana and Cole. (yes that's my boy) :) Pray for the rest of their preparation time, their families, and God's leading in all they do and encounter. 

I'll be traveling with the team but somewhat separate. I will of course spend time with the kids, and will also be ministering in the other focus areas. I have asked a dear friend and former Hosanna Staff member and Missionary to Germany, Anna Mansfield, to meet me in Ethiopia from her home in Germany. It will be wonderful having a Ministry Partner and Intercessor with me as we pursue some of the exciting possibilities that are beginning to be placed before us as things grow.

I have to mention that Anna will be coming from Malawi with Cheryl Stearns prior to meeting me in Ethiopia. It was about 4 years ago that God brought the three of us together to go to Malawi, and we shared a room together (along with the Elephants in the shower!!) It was a time that God was revealing to all three of us things about His plan for each one of us and we knew that God was about to open the flood gates! I love how God's plans continue to blow us away, and seeing where He has led us since that beautiful time with Him in a hut in the National Game Park! The three of us are all over the globe, yet intertwined in friendship and even in Ministry! Fun Stuff God!

Things to pray for:

1. We are visiting during an exciting time in Hosanna, as our selected 15 women from our group of 80 have just begun their Training. They are the first 15 to go through a year-long training with Women at Risk. They're learning how to weave scarves, and beginning a rehabilitation process of who they are in Christ and growing in a new knowledge of their great purpose in Jesus. This will be a sweet time of dedication, celebration, and encouragement to the entire group of 80 women.

2. We will again spend time with the 52 women in the prison. Last year's visit proved to be some of the most powerful experiences with the Lord as we watched transformation from darkness to light in dramatic ways. We expect this time to be nothing less, and are excited to build relationships and trust with these women who are so desperate and lonely. 

3. I will speak to the Pastors in the Seminary and feel I have specific words for them. Please pray for this time as they really go through a lot of sacrifice going through Seminary. It is through their love and passion for Jesus and spreading His name that they persevere. This is a ripe and powerful group of men and women ready to go and be. Please pray that the Lord has His way as I speak. Many of these Pastors Hosanna! Church has sponsored through school, so this is a beautiful relationship we have with these Pastors. As we partner together with them, this is helping to spread the Word and start Churches. 

4. I am meeting with key leaders who have recently been brought to my attention. I wish I could tell you the whole story, but like everything that God has done in the ministry in the last 5 years... another God connection, another piece to the puzzle. We knew this piece was there from the start, a word of bringing this Community Kingdom Model to other Communities. His timing is just perfect. WOW! Excited to say the least... I can't even seem to sit down much, as I can't contain my excitement!  

5. Please also pray for my time with the Mayor and Governor as we discuss future plans for the acreage given to us for building a Life Center. This Life Center will be a multifaceted facility that will bring all areas of our ministry together as well as the different churches we are working with. This will aid the children as a school, the Women as an extension of our Training Center, as a Discipleship Training Center for the Leaders, Pastors and Children who age out of the Sponsorship Program. 

Thank you all for your love, support, involvement, prayers and sponsorship! What a joy it is to see God's plan unfold and people working together to fulfill God's heart to those He loves. 

In His Beautiful Name,

Marybeth Rolfe

Good News!

Our Impact Team is preparing for their November trip and we are incredibly excited, with full confidence in how God will work through this team ~ far beyond what we can imagine and far greater than we will ever know! I’m excited for their time in Ethiopia, knowing in faith that the team will witness and uphold the continuation of God’s blessings and favor upon Hosanna, Ethiopia and upon Hosanna! Kingdom Expansion ministries as these communities - in faith - partner together for His glory.

And it really is The Good News….

The model for transformation of a community and for any person is the perfect model that God gave us. We are transformed by His Word.

So this year we’re gifting our Sponsored Children with Bibles in their Amharic language; picture Bibles for the younger children and standard Bibles for the older ones. God’s Word made known. For there are no material objects we can give them that will sustain change in their lives, only their knowing and receiving of Christ will accomplish this.

Our beautiful Sponsored Children will receive greater access to God’s truth, God’s promises, God’s word eternal ~ to God.

For The Good News *is* the Kingdom of God.

“So faith comes from hearing, that is, hearing the Good News about Christ.”  [Romans 10:17 NLT]

In presenting the Bibles and spending time together loving these beautiful children and receiving their love in return, the 'joined together' community of faith will be doers of the Word, sharing the Gospel by living its truth. The team will provide engaging Children's Ministry of Worship and planned activities, and most importantly personal connection and prayerful blessings as affirmations of how special they are as children of God.

“For the word of God is living and active”  [Hebrews 4:12a ESV]

HOW CAN I HELP?

So often Sponsor Families ask what they can give or send along with our teams to their Sponsored Child. Your love for these children and continued generosity is truly a reflection of Christ – thank you for all of these kind offers!  

PRAY:
The most important support you can give to the 2014 Impact Team and the children/people they minister to are your prayers. We become part of ‘the team’, part of the Body, part of Christ’s discipleship through our prayerful support. Simply loving and lifting others ~ there are no geographical boundaries around the love of Jesus that we’re so blessed to share. Please know that while a small team is actually traveling to Ethiopia, their love and blessings are the ‘face’ and ‘heart’ from all Sponsor Families to our children.

WRITE:
Share some of your time and write to your child. This is so encouraging to them and it keeps you connected.
http://www.hopechest.org/community/hosanna/write-your-child/

“But whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.”  [1 John 2:5-6 ESV]

DONATE:
For those of you who are led to provide financial support, your contributions are greatly appreciated and will be used in two ways:
1. To offset the purchase of the Bibles. (Because of the lead time required for purchasing Bibles, payment was allocated up-front, in advance of reaching out to Sponsor Families.)
2. Help pay for specific additional needs such as food or medical supplies as we go into some of the children's homes to give prayer support. (They receive these needed items from the regular monthly sponsor donations, but we are seeking out additional provisions as we will love and support Sponsored Families with multiple children.)
At this point your financial contributions will be received into the fund used for general expenses.

The link to contribute is: https://secure3.convio.net/chc/site/Donation2?df_id=1420&1420.donation=form1

** Select "Trip Payments - One Time Gift"

** Enter this code in the NOTES field:  ET141003T
   The cutoff date for Sponsor contributions to this year's trip is Friday, 17-October.

The Children's Ministry is one component of God’s plan for this trip. We'll share more of God’s leading and vision for the rest of the November Impact Trip in upcoming blog posts soon to follow.

For now, please join us in this time of incredible excitement, prayer and expectancy for all that God will accomplish through the team of amazing servants that Hosanna! is sending to our sister-community in Hosanna, Ethiopia. A team that will share The Good News and place Bibles in the hands of these sweet children….

May the children be richly, profoundly and abundantly blessed with every joy and promise of The Word of God. May they learn His Truth, love His Truth, and live His Truth all the days of their lives.

“The grass withers and the flowers fade, but the word of our God stands forever."  [Isaiah 40:8 NLT]

If you have any questions please e-mail:
Marybeth Rolfe
Sponsorship Coordinator 
Ethiopia Advocate - Kingdom Expansion 
hosannatohosanna@gmail.com

Pray Without Ceasing [1 Thes 5:17]

As the Impact Team begins preparation for our Fall 2014 Mission Trip, we pray. 

     God’s grandeur plan….  

          for the people of Hosanna, Ethiopia

               for the Hosanna-to-Hosanna ministry

                    for this team and this Impact Trip 

We invite you to prayerfully consider.... **We invite you to join us.**

A few simple questions…. Is this your time to go? Is this part of your journey ~ with Him? Are you wanting to grow in your walk with Christ, open to serving God’s purpose, willing to surrender your ‘self’ ~ for Him? When you consider the possibility of traveling and giving as a member of the Ethiopia Impact Team, does your heart answer ‘maybe’ or even ‘someday’?

Pray into those promptings for God’s perfect guidance. Maybe your ‘maybe’ is *yes*, perhaps your ‘someday’ is *now*…. Listen and receive.

“Let me hear Your lovingkindness in the morning; For I trust in You; Teach me the way in which I should walk; For to You I lift up my soul.”  [Psalm 143:8]

Trust and believe.

Participating on the Ethiopia Impact Team is simply (and amazingly!) bringing His Kingdom to others; being the love of Christ to people who enthusiastically embrace your outreach and give boundless love and joy in return. Your *yes* becomes God’s answers to prayers as He transforms you and touches lives, continuing the momentum of His ministry. 

The 2014 Ethiopia Impact Trip remains open until September 5th for additional applicants. 

Dates:         November 1 – 10, 2014

Cost:           $2,500  

Apply at:     http://www.hosannalc.org/impact/global/trips/ 

Vision for the Trip:

Children

• Our main focus is to love our sponsored children; continuing to build and lift them in relationship and trust in their walk with Christ. *Our continued and consistent presence in their lives is incredibly important to this affect.*  We will be the hands and feet and hugs and kisses from their sponsor families. 


• In partnership with our in-country HopeChest Staff, we’ll assess needs of the children and the Care Point in order to establish vision for future trips.  

• For the first time, we’ll complete home visits with many of our sponsored children and their families. God is calling us to bring them home-ministry of prayer, encouragement, and personal connection.

• We’ll visit the site that will become our second sponsored Care Point, praying blessings and favor for the Pastors, the Church, and the Kingdom partnership that is developing.

“When he had said these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all.”  [Acts 20:36]

Women

• We will worship together and encourage the women who were rescued from the streets. They remain steadfast in their walk with Christ and continue to grow in their understanding of the depth, breadth, and heights of His love for them.

• Our hope is to again go into the women’s prison and be a glimmer of Jesus' light and love for the ~52 women there, speaking truth into their lives as God leads.

“Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”  [Phil 4:6-7]

Leaders

• God’s transformation of the city of Hosanna, Ethiopia engages civic and religious leaders. We’ll continue to encourage and promote this building of community and grow in our connectedness as we are led – with the Mayor, the Police Department, and Heads of Seminary. God has gifted these leaders and blessed their vocations. As they are partnering together and serving Him, incredible progress is occurring.

“So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.”  [Luke 11:9]

God’s glory will be known as we continue to offer our ‘yes’ to His calling and guidance; as we lift up His prayers in Christ. We go forth with great expectancy that amazing progress will be realized in God’s grandeur plans for His people. For God who is faithful will answer these prayers ~ “immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine.” [Ephesians 3:20]  

     As we pray....

          

          without ceasing....

In Christ,

~ Jodi 

on behalf of Impact Team 2014 

Believe and Do Greater Things

You’re invited!

Marybeth Rolfe will be one of two featured speakers at the May Orphan Awareness Meeting sponsored by Hosanna! Kingdom Justice. She will share testimony of the power of sponsorship for changing lives. Through her personal experience, you’ll hear stories of two children who are sponsored through our Hosanna CarePoint. Marybeth will also share the witness of Nebiyu Haile. Nebiyu is an amazing man of God who lives his life in ministry to others; his personal story is a profound and moving example of how outreach programs transform lives. God truly works when people extend generosity, kindness and love to others – His blessings are multiplied beyond what we can ever ask or imagine!

Check your calendars for Thursday, May 22nd – it will be an evening that is sure to bring a heightened awareness and movement of heart for children in need throughout the world. Please join us!  

Additional Information:

May Orphan Awareness Meeting
Sponsored by Hosanna! Kingdom Justice

Date:       Thursday, May 22nd 
Time:       6:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Location:  Hosanna! Church
       9600 163rd Street West
       Lakeville, MN   55044

Link to Facebook Event - Hosanna! Orphan Awareness Meeting

This meeting is for anyone interested in or with a heart for orphans, adoption, foster care, and the like!

Please mark your calendars and join us for this full group meeting - we have a lot to share and want YOU there! 

We have two fabulous speakers lined up to share about two of the many different ways to get involved in orphan care. Then we will have some time for an open floor during which everyone can share their stories about their experiences in Orphan Awareness, Visiting Orphans trips, adoption/foster care, book study, and other things that have happened since we last met as a large group!

Also, please invite others from Hosanna! who may be interested in our ministry and anyone else in the community who is involved or interested in orphan advocacy, adoption, foster care, mission trips, child sponsorships, prayer, service projects, etc.!