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Sustaining Love and a Plan for Every Future

A phrase that we have often used to describe Bring Love In is “Sustaining Love” and when you see the organization, when you read the stories of these kids, where they came form and where they are now, when you hear the mothers and staff genuine care for the well-being and futures of these children, you see that it is exactly that.

Sustaining.

It’s a love that wraps them in a hug that doesn’t let go, it’s not a fleeting one that comes in for a moment, gives you brief affection and then goes away, it’s a love that becomes a backbone, a cornerstone and a foundation for the new lives of these kids, their new future that lies ahead.

My name is Allie Jeffers and I am the donor relation’s coordinator for Bring Love In.

I only started with the organization about 6 or 7 months ago working out of our administrative offices in Austin, Texas.

I had no idea when I started this job how much it would truly transform my heart and my own passions for this amazing organization and the people in it.

I recently got back from going to Ethiopia for the first time (exciting stuff!!!) with Jessie and one of her friends. We needed to go to get new updated family photos, check on how everything was going there etc…

When Levi and Jessie conducted my interview for the position back in August, their last and final point in the interview was “and we will need you to go to Ethiopia with us at some point, would you be comfortable with that?”

My immediate response: YES!

I love traveling, I love adventure and taking photos and the fact that I get to do it for work, for such an amazing organization that helps these kids and moms in Ethiopia… who would say no??

But I don’t think I had at all prepared for how much it would actually affect my heart.

Within the first couple of days of being in Ethiopia I felt a bit like I was being turned inside out… in a good way. I felt as if my eyes were being stretched wider than I had ever seen, that my hands were being pried open and filled with more than I had ever held and my heart being pulled and tugged and completely filled with love for this country and these people more than I could ever imagine.

I began to see things from a different side of life than I had ever seen them before, from the things I thought I knew about the world, about love and family and God.

One of the days while we were at Bring Love In, we were working with the staff, meeting all the moms and the children to take their family photos. During the craziness of getting all the kids in this small space and grouping them up for photos with the moms, I had this moment where it all just clicked for me, it was like a puzzle piece shifting into it’s perfect place of understanding that changed so much of my perspective on Bring Love In.

You see, for months I had been working on our social media, talking to all of our amazing supporters and donors, seeing photo after photo of these faces so much so that I could recognize any of them and remember (at least some of, because their names are really difficult to even pronounce) their names and stories.

And then I saw them, walking through the gates into Bring Love In’s courtyard that day.

And I laughed to myself because for starters: it felt so strange to be meeting them in person and seeing them in person and secondly: it was so funny to see how they are just kids like any kid would be in America. They are goofy, silly, shy, self-conscious like any other kid and teenager would be.

But there was also this bigger perspective that I felt throughout the whole day, watching these kids with once grim stories and pasts full of struggle and hardships, laughing with their friends, interacting with the moms and staff, I realized that this was the most self-evident depiction of redemption that I had ever seen played out. I looked around this courtyard full of Amharic, laughter and shouting, kids running to and fro. I realized what an amazing exemplification of grace and God’s plan it all is.

It’s obvious they are not the tragic tale the world had intended for them. They are the opposite. They are miracles.

Here, right in front of me I saw God’s love playing out through the Forever Families Bring Love In has formed, I see his plan in their lives, in their futures.

(a slightly blurry photo of me taken by one of the Bring Love In kiddos, Asyma, while we were walking around the streets near Bring Love In)

I am so blessed and beyond grateful to be apart of this organization, this movement. We cannot wait to continue to sharing this journey with you and getting to watch as the beautiful futures for each of these children play out.

 

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Made for More

You and I, we were made for more.

This life

This place

These tasks

This plan

He crafted our lives, built our beings, instructed our paths and planned for more.

He put us in this world, showed us others in need, gave us free will, and planned for more.

He loved us with a fierce love, gave us everything we have, gave us the ability to dream, and planned for more.

You and I, we were made for more.

The question is if we will choose to be like a boat sitting on the beach waiting to be used, or out in the waters we were built to navigate.

At Bring Love In, we feel that each and every one of us, each Christian on this earth, was made for more.  We were called to something bigger, together we make up God’s plan to change the world we live in.  The revelation we had was simply this, made for more.

But what do we do with that?  Made for more. Yes. But more what? The answer for each of us is different.

For us, the answer to that question is orphan care. We are supposed to give our lives to helping orphans have hope and a future.

About 6 years ago, we started work on a plan to help not only orphans but widows as well.  We began crafting a structure that would both provide good education and livelihood to the orphans we will take in, but jobs and economic stability for the neighborhoods we enter.

But there was something more still, another aspect of this whole plan that we were missing.   We again went back to prayer, seeking out what more we needed to make this work.

We finally found it.

Bring Love In is a community, not a program or an organization, but a community.  One that spans the oceans, stretches across borders and builds bonds between people from all walks of life.

A community that gives more than it takes.

A community of widows who are stepping in and giving their lives to raising children who are not their own.

A community of Christians around the world who are rising to meet the needs of the orphans who are crying out to be loved.

A community of selfless givers who are participating in providing resources to build thousands of widow led homes for orphans.

With these revelations in place we were finally able to sum up the calling we felt led to;

Bring Love In is…..

A community of people across the world who are working together to bring love in to the orphans and widows of Ethiopia.

Responding to the biblical call that each of us are made for more.

And so here we are today. I am a man, humbled to be called by God, blessed to have a wife and four children who are crazy enough to embark on this journey, driven by a passionate love to do what we can to help the widows and orphans in their distress.  Passionate about building a simple community, one that will grow and thrive, hopefully one day taking in thousands if not millions of orphans and widows around the world and giving hope in place of despair.

We will train these women and give them the resources they need to in turn train up future leaders and help them transform their culture for Him.

Because we believe that not only were we made for more, but these children are as well.  Each of them, no matter where they may be was made for more.  We are part of a community who is here to bring love in, to give hope and the opportunity to thrive.

 

Will you rise up and be a part of the community?  You are wanted here.

 

Levi

Inspiration, Rebuilding and Providing Opportunity: A Podcast with Levi Benkert

A few months ago, Levi Benkert had the opportunity to be interviewed on the  Inside ATX podcast to talk about the story of how his family moved to Ethiopia, how Bring Love In came to be, and how the journey has changed and grown. Hear as well what Bring Love In is striving for in furthering the growth and hope for a bright future for Ethiopia.

Listen to the podcast below:

Hope for Every Future

I am going to admit something that I don’t think I have ever said to anybody.  And I don’t mean that in the ‘come read my fantastic blog about my secrets which are really just enticing things to get more eyeballs’ sort of way, I mean it in the ‘I have been scared to admit this to myself for way too long’ kind of way.

I am not a naturally giving person.

There, I said it…

What I mean is that I don’t have a massive altruistic streak in me that wakes me up at the crack of dawn so that I can go out and spend my day finding needy people to help.  I am just not wired that way. I have met many of that kind of people before, and admire them.  Me, I have to work every day to fight this huge giant in me who wants me to do everything for me.

I call him my Selfish Giant. He is large and hairy, and growls a lot.

Why then did our family set out to partner with all these people in Ethiopia to reimagine orphan care?

It’s funny, I almost wrote the line that I usually use when people ask.  “Because we saw a need and felt called to make a difference” yada yada yada…. You have my permission to punch me in the arm, like one of those hard punches with your knuckle out that makes a big bump, if you ever hear me give you that crap line.

Yeah there is some truth to that, but the reality, the deep dark insides of my soul, those parts hold all sorts of insecurities. And then there is the history, the deep darkness there that holds all sorts of other explanations for why someone would go out and spend a whole lot of their life building something that will help others, with little recourse for one’s self.

Yeah, I said it, all of those things.  The darkness is there, the insecurity is there, the hurts and pains are there, and out of those messy things, God has born inside of both Jessie and I this fiery passion for helping orphans.

Yet there is the Selfish Giant, he is always there, growling, smelling the place up. And so what ensues is this battle, this push and pull between wanting to do something good, and wanting to do lots of things to make our own lives more comfortable and easier.

Anyone out there feeling me on this?

Lately I have been wrestling with this, struggling to come up with a clear reason for why we help, trying to get beneath the surface of the answer that I always give about the world being broken and out wanting to fix it.  (Go ahead and punch me, I have it coming)  and I realized that what we needed was a statement of purpose for our family, and for Bring Love In, a simple sentence that says why.

I think I found it.

We believe that there is hope in every future.

Hear that?

Hope in  every  future. 

If you looked at our lives 15 years ago, the messes that we had ourselves in, and the frustrating cycles we had to break out of, you would have had to believe in something much more powerful than yourself to see hope in our futures.  And so from someone who has been given hope, from someone who believes in hope, we are turning around and trying to give hope wherever we can.

It’s not always easy, and the Selfish Giant is always going to be there grumbling and stinking each and every morning, but I would argue one powerful statement has the power to help you shake off that giant and that is this:

Unless you are willing to believe in and give hope for another’s future, it is unlikely that there is much hope in your own.

That is why we do all this.   That is why we give time in the middle of a busy life.  That is why we grabbed onto these 57 kids, gave them mothers and homes and looked each of them in the eye and said “We don’t know how, and we are not even sure if we have the power to promise this, but we are here doing it anyway.  We promise that we believe in you, and that we will find the money, and the time and the resources that it takes to raise you into the amazing person that you are supposed to be”

We believe that God has hope in every future. We believe our purpose is bringing out that hope.

 

Are you with us?

 

Levi

Meklit’s Story

(Pictured above: Meklit on the left)

Our second girl who is going to college along with Enguday, is Meklit. She also wrote out her story of how she came to Bring Love In with her siblings.

(Pictured above: Meklit on the right)

“Hello,

First of all, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Meklit Tesfaye. I am 18 years old and I live in Addis Ababa in Bole subcity.

I will now tell you my story.

I was living in Kosmeda with my mother. Her name is Akmaz and her job was in trading. This means her job was never a set pay, changing day to day based on what she sold.

I was not the oldest child in the house, I do have an older brother, however, he never lived with us. Because of this, I had to help my mother with the selling and trading.

My little sister’s names is Hymanot. At that time, her age was 8, I believe. Her little brother, Dawit, was 5 years old. When we came to Selam, she was the youngest sister in my family. She is very smart. I love her very much. We have grown up with together and I have taken care of her as if she was my own child from when she was the young age of one a half years old.

Around this time, we lost my mother. She passed away, I couldn’t carry this burden on my own. Not only was I so young, I had no idea how to protect and support my sisters and brothers. I had no solution for this problem.

By the means of a shelter, we were able to live in a home and get food. Because I was only 11 yeard old at the time, I could not do anything more for our situation.

Finally, God helped us and heard our cries.

A woman named Rachel who worked in the women and children offices took us to Kechene Orphanage.

After 3 years, a man named Thomas took us in to Bring Love In, which is where I live now.

When I came here, everything changed. God gave us a different life by using the organization of Bring Love In. Because of it, I immediately changed spiritually. I believe in God. I cannot live by myself without God.

The other support of Bring Love In, is in giving us shelter, food and clothes. We also have been given a family. I have a mother and an aunt in my house. They give us pure love.

When I compare Kechene Orphanage with Bring Love In, the advantage is far greater in this organization. Now, I am very happy. They develop our social skills as well as our focus on academic life. I got a 423 on my entrance exam!

I would like to thank the administrative offices because they support us not like we are a job, they help us and support like we are family.

Finally, I would like to say: God bless you to everyone at Bring Love In for your support of us.”

-Meklit

Enguday’s Story

(Enguday pictured on the left) 

At Bring Love In, we believe that there is hope for every future. We aim to encourage and aid our children in every way possible to be able to achieve a full and successful future.

We are so thrilled to announce that two of our girls are going to college! Both have been in Bring Love In for several years now, and we are incredibly excited that they are able to attend college and further their education to one day go out into the world, prepared and equipped with everything that they need.

In light of the new season of life Enguday and Meklit go into, we asked them to write out in their own words their story, how they came to Bring Love In, and how it has impacted their lives.

This is Enguday’s story.

(Enguday pictured above)

“Hi, my name is Enguday Wimichael. I am a Christian. I am 19 years old. I have two sisters: Sebie and Tisnon. I was the oldest in our family.

When my story began, I was born in Addis Ababa in Zewdity Hospital. My mother’s name is Tigist Adisu. She was a very responsible woman because when she became pregnant, my father left her and the entire burden was carried by her to care for my siblings and me. I grew up without a father. After 5 my sister Sebie was born and 5 years after that, Tisnon was born both from my step-father. Now I have two beautiful sisters. During this season of my life, I was around 11 years old and very happy.

Then, when my mother died, my grandmother took us into her home and we spent some time with her. Because she was not able to adopt us, we were entered into the Kechene Orphanage. My sisters and me lived there for two years. There was room for us because we lived in a mass together.

There is hardly any person who could easily understand or approach what I have gone through. At that point in my life, it seemed life was very impossible.

After two years, we were transferred into Bring Love In. There we were given a home to to live in, we were given shelter and food as well as friends and educational support. We had a new family with new brothers and sisters!

When I compare Kechene Orpanage to Bring Love In, I see a vast amount of differences.

The first one is: they encourage me to socialize with other people and to have community.

Secondly, they want to achieve our educational status and encourage us in our academic endeavors.

Thirdly, they made harmonious family life within our home.

And finally, they have prepared us a good and responsible person to take care of us.

After all of my story, I would like to thank my dear God, because He walked with me in every chapter of my life and I saw His mercy and love in my life.

I would also like to thank Bring Love In staff and administrative offices.

God Bless You!”

-Enguday

A note from Levi and Jessie

Hey there, it’s Levi and Jessie writing from Bring Love In.

We know that you are like the rest of us and get way more emails than you can actually read. I promise to get right to the point here.

Bring Love In is still chugging along like a train that always arrives on time; the kids are beautiful as ever and the staff and our house moms are the most wonderfully amazing people we have ever had a chance to work with.  They get up and love on the kids in ways that we can’t begin to put into words.

We thank God for each of them every day.

I know, I promised to be short and here I am gushing…  I’m telling you though, these worlds we get to bridge, they tug on your heart in one very certain direction; towards the kids, towards the place where hope is being born and made new.

Here is why we are writing today though.

This ministry, the one that runs like a train, always the same each day, always on time day in and day out.   It is also tough to raise money for, we aren’t creating a new and shiny object, or telling a fascinating new story each day about another daring rescue.  Our story is a lot like yours if you are a mother or father, we get up each day;

We change diapers…

we fill school bags…

we hold our kids tight while they cry out their tears about the friend who does not like them anymore…

we plan (and then fight boredom) with kids during the long hot summer,

What we are destined to always struggle with though…  money.  How do you keep 57 kids fed, a roof over their head, school fees paid when you don’t always have a new fancy story to tell?

Faith

Nothing but faith all hours of every day.

So here we are again, running with bank balances low, on our knees asking God to give us direction, to tell us who to call and hope that they aren’t angry with us for coming back to them again with the same need that we called them about before, and will likely call them about again.

It’s us, 57 kids, 9 amazing mothers, and a whole bunch of incredible admin staff, all with hearts full of hope and faith in God for a future that he promises.

Are you with us?  Will you step out and help us with finances this month?  I know that summers are a hard time to give, we see this low point in our giving come around each year, July’s are always tough.

We are praying for 50 new monthly donors to step up big time and commit to give $100 a month.  This would mean we have all of our monthly costs covered by monthly donations. Right now, we are short that much and rely on one time donations in bigger months to carry us through the low times.

Thanks for standing with us!

Levi & Jessie

How to fight like a girl, and nine other things my wife taught me about parenting.

I want to tell you about this one mother, this gorgeous, wonderful, picture of strength and all that is good in the world mother.

She already sounds too good to be true right?  Like a work of fiction more than a reality. That is the funny thing about life, the truth is often far more exciting and incredible than any work of fiction could be.

Let me assure you, this girl is as real as life itself.

This morning I woke up in this dirty, hard as a rock bed covered with a shiny yellow blanket and I find myself sitting here missing her a few hours before my alarm is supposed to wake me. I could have slept longer but a particularly aggressive mosquito would not stop buzzing in my ears and diving in for a bite on every bit of skin that was exposed to the air. For a while I tried to sleep with my head under the blanket but the person who slept in this bed before me had not showered in what smells a very long time, and so I decided that the risk of being bitten was less painful than the smell. At one point in the night I tried to use the mosquito net that hung from the ceiling above, but as always happens to me I woke up in the middle of the night with the dusty net wrapped around my neck, instead it now lies on the ground covered in red African dust.

This hotel that I am in is easily one of the places on earth that I remember with more emotion than anywhere else. It’s like a trigger being here, flooding me with feelings and memories. When I close my eyes I can almost hear the voices of our kids crying in the middle of the night asking Jessie and I why we had to leave our lives behind in America and move here. I can remember the menu in the little hotel restaurant with the orange chairs, the one which lists fancy items like “Cheese on Plate” and “Special Oomlet” that when ordered will only be met with a simple “no have. Only fried egg” from the wait staff.  This is Jinka Resort, the small hotel in the small town that my crazy adventurous wife and I drove 18 hours outside of the capital city in Ethiopia to with our kids to live in for the first three weeks of the six years that we lived in Ethiopia to help provide homes for orphans.

This city is the place where I found the end of all the fight I had in me. I gave up here, literally laid down and cried in the bathroom on the dirty floor of the hotel room while my wife tried to keep the kids happy building little structures out of the rocks outside.

The 18 months earlier had been tough, our marriage was hardly a marriage any more from all that we had been through.  My brother killed himself, my best friend who worked with me died of liver failure shortly after I had to lay him off.  Both, I would have told you during that time were my fault.  My business had failed in the real estate crash of 2008 along with it I lost millions of dollars of money from investors. “Trust me” I had said while explaining to them how incredible the projects I was building were going to be. Now they were gone, the banks had taken everything. Landing here in this hotel in those first weeks only brought questions of why we had decided to do something that now looked so stupid. In that hotel it was feeling more like we were digging ourselves deeper into a hole rather than finding a new way on a new road in our lives.

I was a mess.  Our lives were a mess.

But today life is different and good in so many ways, and being back here and waking up in this room just a few doors down from the room that we lived in with our family, I can’t help but think back to that season and how we got through it all. The answer to why we made it in the end is simple.

Jessie

She rose up and showed me how to find strength in the middle of the hardest struggle in my life, and then she held my hand and painted a picture together with me of what we wanted to live for, and how we could come out of that dark place and have a huge impact in the world together with our four kids. She fought with all she had for something that I could not yet see, showing me through words and feelings how to find my way through the dark.

The water is not working in the bathroom and I am pretty sure there are bedbugs in the mattress and so my grimy jeans are still hugging my legs from the 11 hour long dusty drive yesterday, but my fingers are dancing across these keys, yearning to tell you the story of the woman that I love so much, to share with you all that I have learned from her in the years that we have been married. Without any further build up here, I give you the ten most important things I have learned about the being a parent from my wife the most amazing mother in the world.

Showing your kids how to live to have positive impact on the world around them is like painting a picture in the middle of a storm. The canvas keeps blowing away, dust gets in your eyes and you can never find the right color that you want to use. Instead you need to learn to paint by feeling, using your heart not your head. Eventually the picture starts to take shape, and becomes the most beautiful work of art you have ever created.  I love the calm moments, the kind that come when we get away to some beach somewhere with our family and we can sit back and look at what we have created together and see just how beautiful it is.  Jessie more than anyone I know has a talent for creating with her heart instead of her head and our kids are beautiful wonderful people because of it.


Being a mother at times means being willing to get dirty and scrappy when life demands it of you. You don’t always get to make plans for what life will throw at you, but you do get to choose how you respond. Jessie takes off the gloves and fights like a girl, like a force of nature when something threatens her kids, our marriage or what she is working to build in our family.


Put your relationship with your spouse first. Jessie seems to have a radar for where we are at in our marriage. Intuitively she knows when we begin to drift off and she always seems to know how to get us back. A few days before I came on this trip she booked a day by the pool at a hotel near our house while the kids were at school.  I can’t describe how nice it was to shut off from the world for a bit and get a chance to get back on the same page again


Our ceiling is our kids floor. One of the hardest things to do as a parent is to stand with your children on your shoulders rather than placing them on the floor next to you. The act of choosing to stand with your feet planted on the ground creating a solid foundation for your kids takes force and determination. Too often parents think that what they were given is all they have to give their children. That is simply not true, we can do so much more for them, we can learn new skills, and build in them a passion and skill set for taking on life that we could not even dream of ourselves.  The key is learning how to get out of the way.


Know yourself and talk about it. This is something that Jessie learned later in our marriage. She started to find her voice, and found that things work so much better when she talks about where she is at and what capacity she has to take things on.  The truth is being a mom is tough work, and sometimes you need to be honest with yourself that you need a break from things to catch your breath. As a husband I would much rather know where she is and how she is doing than have her push on for months past the breaking point and then have to watch her work to get back above water. I love her for this honesty.


Who you are matters more than where you work or how much money you make in your life. Jessie has a way of bringing this up throughout our lives with our kids, asking them about what the choices they are making say about them, helping them see the value of character without cramming it down their throats. It’s an art, one that I can appreciate and almost grasp, but I must admit that I don’t fully understand how she does it in a way that works so well.  I am proud of the kids we have, proud of the hearts they have and the choices they make. They aren’t perfect, and I am sure we have many tough seasons ahead as they will surely stumble and fall, but I also know without a doubt that the deep heart lessons they have learned, have built in them something that will last the test of time. I just can’t wait to see what all four of them grow up and do with their lives.


Don’t get yourself in a knot worrying about the small stuff. Enough said.


When something is wrong, fix it. This is perhaps the most important of all the lessons I have learned from Jessie. I think that much of the world gets this one wrong, they think that the situation they are in is something that cannot change, instead Jessie has a knack for busting our world apart and putting it back together again how they should be.  Take a look at your life, then make a list of what you want to accomplish before you die, does it all line up?  Are you able to see where you want to be tomorrow in where you are at today?  If not then today is the day to do something about that.


Workouts are like therapy only cheaper and more effective. J


Life is only an adventure if you decide to see it that way. We have traveled the world together, ate all sorts of crazy foods, met people who didn’t speak our language in sweltering hot mud huts, and sat on the side of many dusty roads in the middle of nowhere with broken down cars. Jessie has taught our kids that it is all about your perspective, if you look at it like an inconvenience then things will only get worse from there, instead if you see it all as an adventure it begins to become just that, a life worth living with stories and glimpses of beauty all around you.

Jessie, thank you for who you are.  Please don’t change a thing, just keep doing what you are doing and everything is going to turn out amazing.

 

Bring Love In and Both Hands

We are excited to announce that we are partnering with www.BothHands.org to expand the Bring Love In community and fund the work we are doing in Ethiopia. The Both Hands Foundation helps fundraise for adopting families and non-profits who serve orphans. Bring Love In will gather a team of volunteers and Both Hands will coach them to coordinate a service project fixing up a widow’s home. The team sends letters to raise sponsorship for their day of service. 100% of the funds raised will go directly to Bring Love In to provide for the needs of Forever Families!

Both Hands has the same kind of passion we do for widow and orphan care. Our first project together will be lead by Luther Ramsey in Clarksville TN, on May 20th. We will be spending the day working on Ms Wilson’s home. She is an 84 year old African American woman who has been blind since she was 28 and has lived by herself since her husband died 22 years ago. Her home needs de-cluttering, cleaning, painting and some yard work. We are so excited to to have an opportunity to make a difference in her life.

We are asking you to consider leading a Both Hands project in your community to benefit Bring Love In. Not only will you be supporting the work Bring Love In is doing in Ethiopia, but you will also be partnering with your church, friends and family to change the life of a widow in your own community. If you are interested in leading a project or have questions please email Luther Ramsey at luther@bringlove.in

Why we do it

Hey there,    It’s Levi here doing some thinking this morning that I wanted to share with you about why we do all of this and why it matters that Bring Love In exists.

 

Have you ever been inspired by the future?  Brought to one of those important places in your life where you were ready to jump out of your shoes and run because you caught a glimpse of something could be that currently does not exist?  It is that same feeling, that drive that motivates us at Bring Love In. It is the reason why we do what we do, why we do the hard work every day to create new families from widows and orphans in Ethiopia.

When we see Ethiopia we don’t see poverty and hunger, we see potential, a future, we see hope and happiness. Because the truth about Ethiopia is that it is full of incredible people, and if you take the time to get to know them you will see what we mean when we say that their hope is contagious, and we are blessed each and every day that we get to be a part of making that hope a reality.

Bring Love In, this quirky, small band of passionate people, we came together because we all share a massive dream, a hope burning inside us for something better, something wonderful.  It is not about egos, or organizations with big overheads, it is about people like us, like you, helping former orphans and former widows in Ethiopia to become the future leaders who in the next generation will be the ones driving the country forward.

Simply put, we believe there is hope in every future, and that we were put here on this earth to help every person, no matter where they were born, to realize that future.  We believe we were made by God for more than to satisfy our own desires.

We think there are lots of people out there just like us who are motivated by these same things who are on this big crowded earth with us looking for a way to get involved.  We are glad you found us, and hope that you will connect, become a part of this crazy band of passionate people and together we can change the world one orphan at a time.

 

This is a need that needs you! Are you in?

Levi