My trip to Ethiopia

This past week I was able to go to Ethiopia, with a group from my home church in Mukwonago, Wisconsin. I thoroughly enjoyed myself, and I am already praying for a chance to go back. I fell in love with Ethiopia, the people, and the way of life there. The Ethiopians are great people, and I enjoyed my time with them very much. I am thankful, God gave me this opportunity to go on this trip, and I hope, through it, we were a help to the missionaries there. 

We went to help a missionary family, named the Hoovers. I enjoyed my time with them, and I am glad we were able to stay with them.:-) We helped in a lot of children's ministries, in different places. A couple of the days, we ministered to the kids, in a large orphanage (in Addis Ababa). This orphanage had about one thousand kids living there, and I enjoyed getting to see around the orphanage. The other days we worked with various other groups of kids. While helping in the children's ministries, we got a pretty good tour, of the beautiful country of Ethiopia. We got to visit the museum, different parts of Ethiopian country side, and Antoto mountain. (I probably didn't spell the name of the mountain right, sorry:-) TREE!

Another thing I can't forget to mention about Ethiopia is, Coffee. :-) If you are a coffee drinker, Ethiopia is the place to be.:-) Coffee is not my favourite drink, and to tell you the truth, before I went on this trip I hadn't had any coffee for years, but you just can't get by staying in Ethiopia without drinking coffee. Drink it I did; I even counted how many cups I had - 7. Coffee did grow on me, and now that I am back in Kenya I want a cup of Ethiopian coffee.:-) TREE!

I could say lots more about my trip, but I'll leave it at this for now. Enjoy the many pictures I put up.

By - Ashlyn Elaine 

We started our trip in Ethiopia with a cup of coffee. 

Our first lunch in Ethiopia, and it was great! I love Ethiopian food, and got a good amount of it this week. :-) If you know me very well, you will know how much I enjoyed the meal in the picture here - Lots of meat. :-)

I saw many of these big buses on the roads of Addis Ababa

An old canon in the city of Addis Ababa

Beautiful city of Addis viewed from on top of Antoto mountain. I especially love all the trees!

A dish of Ethiopian food. It's great!!!!!

Singing with the kids from the orphanage. They just love doing the actions of the song with us.:-)

Micheala, Sarah, Rachel, and I in our Kenya\Ethiopia shirts

Some of the Ethiopian money - birr

These ladies would carry this huge bundle of sticks up or down a mountain

More coffee ! :-)

We saw this throne in the museum; It was the throne of Haile Selassie. If you notice the little chair in the right corner of the picture, that's his wife's chair. I think it's funny how tiny her's is compared to his.:-)

A mosque in Addis

Some beautiful country side.

A cute donkey. In Ethiopia there are many donkeys and horses, used as means of transportation.

The crowded streets of Addis Ababa. Reminds me of the  many people who need to know their is a God who loves them ,and sent his Son to die for them.

A puppet show.

 All the taxis there are all painted this same colour.

Singing "Read your Bible, Pray every day" with the kids in the orphanage.

Singing with the kids again

 what another cup of coffee? :-)

Teddy and us, four girls singing with the kids on Saturday. These were some kids in a church, not to far from Addis.

The kids listening to the Bible story.

Some words in Amharic; The main language in Ethiopia.

I loved seeing all the horses running around.

I know it's hard to believe, but we had to have one more cup of coffee while we waited at the airport, before leaving Ethiopia. :-)