Little Yabsera is just one of the many reasons I have returned to Ethiopia year after year to photograph for the Adera Foundation. Watching little Yabsera grow and blossom within the loving arms of her mom and the Adera of foundation is living proof that child sponsorship changes...
From my time in Ethiopia - “We think that by protecting ourselves from suffering we are being kind to ourselves. The truth is, we only become more fearful, more hardened, and more alienated. We experience ourselves as being separate from the whole. This separateness becomes like...
On a recent trip to Ethiopia I enjoyed exploring the african countryside and meeting those who call it home. I love the little grass roofed houses (gojo bets) that dot the countryside of Africa. Walking down these red dirt roads I learned that when the gate...
- On assignment in Ethiopia with the Adera Foundation and Pathway Church, traveling with Adera founder Joe Robertson and Pastor Rick Owen. Today Pathway Church’s Pastor Rick was charged with delivering a message of hope to those who lost friends and family in the Kora landslide....
[caption id="attachment_11771" align="alignnone" width="560"] Joe and Rick standing by the farm built at Kidmia Orphanage[/caption] The town of Gunchire is where it all started for Joe Robertson and pastor Rick of Pathway Church. It was here that their partnership built Kidmia orphanage. Later came a library...
30 years ago today Carol and I were blessed with our first child. Ever year since, we have celebrated the day we first experienced Christina's sweet radiance. I'm sad that I am not at home, sitting with family, reminiscing over the many ways that Christina has blessed...
A couple of months ago when I was in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, I wrote a story about a little girl named Ruth who touched my heart. While many of little Ruth's problems cannot be fixed, one could. I just received this photo last week of...
Before returning to Africa later this week, I feel compelled to post one more story from my trip taken a few weeks ago to Ethiopia with The Adera Foundation. This short video, aptly named "Journeys", chronicles our journey to the Wenchi Cherkos monastery that is believed...
Mission work doesn’t stop when you step off foreign soil, there are stories to be shared everywhere we go. When Emirates flight attendants Kristine and Carolina asked me where I had been before my Dubai to Dallas connection, I explained that I was in Ethiopia...
The Adera Daycare Center is the heart of the family preservation work that Adera does. Over this past week we have become good friends with the workers, the moms who are cared for by Adera and we have cradled their precious babies in our arms....
