Impacting A Continent One Life At A Time
City
Sodo, Ethiopia
Date
August 13-15, 2010
Ministry Partners
Melisachew MesfinSpeaker
African
Lincoln BadgerSpeaker
International
Event Report
Sodo, Ethiopia was a Mission combining the ministry efforts of the local Africa Enterprise Team led by Melisachew Mesfin and Stephen Lungu and International Evangelist Lincoln Badger from New Zealand. Together their focus was was to impact the youth community in Sodo. The Mission theme came from Eccl 12:1, “Remember your Creator in the days of your youth”. Thousands were impacted with the Gospel and the following testimony reflects the story of hundreds of other student making commitments to Christ.
Betsegaw Daniel, 21
The 21 years old young man at the middle is Betsegaw Daniel. He is among the Christian youth in Sodo who were actively engaged in the preparation of the youth mission. The picture below shows Betsegaw holding close some of the new converts as they were giving testimonies. He embraced Mamusha with his right hand and Asefa with his left hand.
Mamusha Liera, 17
He comes from a family where his mother brews local alcohol at home and his father gets drunk daily and beats her. They always quarreled and the home is in a constant chaos. Because of this constant turmoil Mamusha left home and became a street boy. In the streets he started to practice what he “learnt” at home, quarreling with his friends and became restless. No connection with his family.
At the Sodo mission Mamusha received Jesus Christ as his personal savior and one of the things he did was to reconcile with his friends. He is also getting ready to go back to his parents and to tell them his testimony; how he was changed and to invite them to accept Jesus Christ.
Asefa Densa, 18
Comes from a non Christian background. His father is stanch drunkard and promiscuous. He beats his wife often and creates continuous disorder at home. Asefa left home and became a street boy. He joined a bunch of idle youth that crafts commotion and got involved in theft.
After receiving Jesus Christ as his personal savior, the first thing Asefa did was to go back home and reconcile with his parents. Now he is engaging himself in small/menial business to earn income for leaving. He wants to see his parents accepting Jesus Christ.
The young man at the middle, Betsegaw is doing a follow up to their discipleship process. They have started to take discipleship courses in a local church.
To view the full report from the Sodo Mission, please click here.
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