Arrived and Safe in Addis Ababa!

We are grateful to report that we have arrived in Addis Ababa safely, with smooth flights and a quick transit through customs.  We were then greeted warmly by several members of the staff of ACT, who lugged our million pounds of luggage to a waiting van, and Wanda Demeke from Project Mercy who took time just to welcome us. We drove through the very sprawling city of Addis and all seemed very calm with people walking about in their usual routines of school, shopping and work.

We are now settled in the residential housing facility for ACT which is nicer than I could have imagined and had a wonderful dinner (made by a cook who is really good at it) after being oriented by Jason Polk and Theodros Alemayehu part of the leadership for ACT,  who let us know about the very well thought out plans for us in the coming weeks. We will have the opportunity to serve the regular patients of ACT or "beneficiaries" as they are called, as well as patients in the community, all of whom are some of the poorer people in this community. Serving will include not just medical care, but caring, prayer and counsel.

We are staying in the home with 4 other volunteers from Boston, who are also here to serve in ACT, and they will soon be joined by 2 other team members this weekend and they will all be here the same amount of time as we will.

Bill, Isabella, Janine, Jan, Kathy, Rochelle, Sally, Workayehu are all looking good and eating well--I know because I just saw them and they still seem to have a lot of energy even after all this travel--they are currently singing worship songs. Tomorrow we will be rested and  ready for whatever God has for us.

Family and friends, stay tuned for the posting of an emergency phone contact aside from ACT's contact info. Hopefully we will get the Ethiopian Sim cards soon so that our phones can work here and we can be called directly. 

                                     

The sign behind us says "Welcome To Ethiopia" It is in the airport.

This is the living room (its as nice as it looks) where we will have meetings/devotions

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