by madieministries | Mar 1, 2016 | Uncategorized
Imagine waking up in the morning with no water in your home. How would that impact your day? You wouldn’t be able to shower or brush your teeth very well. You would have no water to make coff… Source: Fresh Water Needed!
by madieministries | Dec 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
Our Life 101 Project has been making a difference to the children we support in Denkaka, Ethiopia. With the help of our generous supporters we are now able to provide some food to the children during their regular tutoring time at the church. If we were given a loaf...
by madieministries | Feb 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
If you are a student in Ethiopia and make it through your 12th grade classes you are in a small minority. The only obstacle for attending a university is the National Exam. Getting to this final step took a lot of time and hard work. It means you passed the 8th and...
by madieministries | Nov 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
Imagine having to decide whether to feed your child enough to sustain them or send them to school. It is not a decision we have to make here in the USA, but it is one that is made every year in the village of Denkaka by many families. This year MADIE Ministries was...
by madieministries | Aug 21, 2014 | Uncategorized
Safe drinking water is essential to humans and other life forms even though it provides no calories or organic nutrients. Approximately one billion people still lack access to safe water. In the USA we have water everywhere we go. It is a constant item that rarely we...
by madieministries | Aug 9, 2014 | Uncategorized
We began our day by taking a hike up a mountainside to explore a part of Debre Zeit. We piled into the taxi to the center of town and then found a bajaj to take us part of the way to Lake Hora. I use to walk this road several times a day when I lived in this section...
by madieministries | Jul 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
The last day for the group to be in Ethiopia came too quickly. Although exhausted and without a “real” shower, the group was more than eager to take the whiteboard and Bibles to Denkaka. Our van driver picked us up at the compound and took us to where the whiteboard...
by madieministries | Jul 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
After 45 minutes of traveling to Dekaka and a 15 minute walk to the church on a dirt road, we arrived at Mulu Wongle Church. Even before we were in sight of the church we heard voices lifted up in praise. It was a sound of joy and it was radiating outside the church...
by madieministries | Jun 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
Tuesday morning at 4 AM I woke to the sound coming from the bathroom. At first I wasn’t sure what I was hearing or if I was just dreaming about the sound of water. As I struggled to become more alert, I realized it was a drip coming from the bathroom. Normally that...
