Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Gooooooooooal!

Our third and final day at Bethzatha Children's Home Association in Awassa was a busy room. We completed painting throughout the house, including this mural by Jan  and Rebekah. More shopping was done for household supplies. Myron Person and Randy Myers completed their two tables, and everyone pitched in to clean up our mess so the children could return to some level of normalcy. Topping it off was dinner at Haile's Resort, which is owned by Haile Gebrselassie, hometown hero and Olympic gold-medal marathoner. He had just returned home after dropping out of the New York City Marathon with a knee. Injury. Kenzie Wade and Andrew Kercher met him earlier in the day when part of our group stopped in to pick up a menu, and he posed for pictures and gave autographs when we returned for dinner.
Thursday we return to Addis Ababa for a visit to the Fistula Hospital. Friday will be a workday at the youth rehabilitation center and Saturday we'll be able to shop for souvenirs before catching our return flight Saturday night.

3 comments:

  1. Looks like all is going well. Be sure and tell Sherridan "Happy 39th Birthday" on Thursday. I am sure that we will enjoy her cake.

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  2. Happy Birthday greetings to Sherridan from Mom & Pop, too!

    And Happy Birthday to Jan!

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  3. Wow! Happy Birthday!(it's an early happy birthday here) It would have been something if you would have flown in today. Then you could have had two birthdays, literally! It is amazing all you have done for the kids. Really cool about meeting the marathoner. That must have been very cool. We were talking about the most famous person we've ever met at youth group tonight...:) Praying for all of you and thinking of all of you always!

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