Weekly update

We've been visiting Yiftu almost every day this week!  She is perky and cheerful, even though she is so thin she looks wasted away.  We're trying to encourage her to drink more, but she eats and drinks as little as she can because she doesn't have anyone to get her up to the bathroom.  I took a physical therapist yesterday to see her who suggested a chair/bucket modification to be a potty chair!  Brian is the one with all the wood tools, so I'm asking him if he'll help me make something!  I think she could get herself there if we did that.  We prayed for her in her house last week, too.

Otherwise, Brian is taking his 9th and 10th graders on a camping trip this weekend- it is part of their curiculum!  They have to pack their own food and, to some extent, find their own way.  He got permission for me to come along- I'm excited to use my new pack I got for a wedding present, and share a tent with my favorite person!!  The forest/park we're going to is just an hour outside of Addis.

After we visited the north of Ethiopia, I was thinking of all the "legends" that the tour guides talk about, and how skeptical all of us/the kids are.  "The legend is that angels helped King Lalibela build the churches, that's why they were built so fast".  Lots of vague statements like that.  

So how about our Bible?  Maybe it all sounds just like a bunch of "legends."  So I wanted to talk to Brian's 8th graders about the reliability of the Bible, the manuscripts, the historical records, etc. I think they would love hearing some of the interesting archaeology!  So Brian and I are going to team-teach some Bible classes in the next few weeks.  I hope that gives them the desire to know their Bibles more!  Lots of the kids come from non-Christian homes.