Sunday, September 18, 2011

Our first trip to the Compassion Church Partnership

Greetings to the loyal blog followers!

Undoubtedly, today has been the best day of the trip so far! Today, we made the 43km journey to Addis Alem to the Compassion Church Partnership.

Our day started at 8am. It took about an hour to travel from our accommodation in Addis Ababa. The scenery on the drive was spectacular with rolling green hills and many, many eucalyptus trees. We arrived at the church to find a few children outside the church gates to greet us. We were all very excited, as we were anticipating the opportunity the meet our sponsor children for the first time. As we approached the church grounds, we could hear clapping from the children. As soon as we walked through the gates, we were greeted by 230 children. (See the photo above).

Except for Aaron, everyone on the team got to meet their sponsor child. It was an amazing experience - hard to describe really. It wasn't long until all the children went to Sunday School - there was 4 rooms filled with children. Their singing was so energetic.

We were also privileged to attend the church. The whole church was packed with people worshiping the Lord. We got to sing to them "Ancient of Days". The sermon was presented in two local languages, but we were also provided with a summary in English.

So, overall, today was a day which everyone was looking forward to, and it exceeded all our expectations!

From Shelley W.

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