Next stop Ethiopia

So, here we go again. Another Cred trip to another incredible and inspiring partner. This time it is the Women At Risk project in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; a Christian organisation that works with prostitutes and ex-prostitutes, helping them get off the streets and into alternative, less demeaning, less degrading and more empowering employment. 

All the ladies get access to counselling, health and nutritional support, training and education. And they all go through a discipleship course which helps to address the many spiritual battles that they have been through over the years and starts them on a road to a new and much improved identity in Christ. 

The project also supports the children of the women, many of whom had incredibly traumatic early childhoods. The children receive counselling and they also get enrolled in their local school so that they can access education up until they are 18 yrs. 

Our team will be working with the children of the project, providing a fun but educational activity week that helps them catch up on the schooling so many of them have missed along the way.

So that, and a whole lot if resources is what our team will be giving; but what the team will be receiving is equally important. Insights into the workings of a prayer-driven selfless organisation who cares for a sector if society shunned by most. Opportunities to discover and hone new skills as the team teaches the children and leads on many games and crafts. Insights into a new culture and country. And the list goes on. A two way mission trip where each side is ministering to the other in its own way

There will be many stories to tell along the way and I'll do my best to pass those on. But Ethiopia is notoriously unreliable on the Internet so apologies now if stories are few and far between whilst we are out there. 

But The key thing is that God knows what we are doing, the team and the project know what we are doing and that the children are benefitting. Anything more than that is a bonus

God bless and will write more when I can.