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Women to Women - July 2009!
YWAM's 'Women to Women' mission team returned from Ethiopia full of sights and sounds and oh-so-many memories. Seven young women from the YWAM Children’s Home were taken to a hotel for two days of pampering. They shared their stories and dreams and their delight was palpable when they were treated to dinner at a restaurant and given small gifts made specially for them.
 God spoke clearly to the team leadership that the mothers of the team were to wash the girls’ feet and pray for them individually. As they lovingly washed feet, tears mingled with the water as God showed the team how incredibly precious these motherless girls were to Him and what joy it brings to His heart when those who have much, give. One of the girls said as they were going back to their home, “Now I know a little what it feels like to have a mother.”
God Hears a Mother’s Prayer
By Liane Wolbert
 I sit in the home of a mother who is making an adoption plan for her daughter who is two years old. Her husband died of AIDS and now she is infected. She is taking the anti-retrovirals and it makes her sick. She knows that she will die soon. She communicates to our interpreter that she hopes that the adoption plan for her daughter will move quickly. She does not want her daughter to see her die. I ask if I can pray for her before we leave. We bow to pray and I thank God for her and her daughter and acknowledge her great love for her little girl. The prayer is complete and I look into her eyes to see them filled with tears. She tells our interpreter in Amharic that today God has answered her prayers. God has made a way for her and her daughter and she is happy that she will not have to worry about her precious baby girl. All will be well.
Suffer the little children to come unto Me…
By Joan Brown, Women to Women team member and adopting mom
 Two boys - 8 years old. One had curly hair, one had coarse. One coughing, one not. Both infected with HIV. When the boys appeared at the hospital, Curly was coughing and very weak, in need of specialized care. His fellow 8 year old street mate announced he would be Curly’s caretaker. And so there they would spend the next few days together - Curly receiving treatment for his active tuberculosis and the dear little friend, tidying his bed, fetching him water, covering him while he chilled from his fever.
 These are the children of the street. The need is clear. It is real. But the Lord knows and sees as well. And He will not turn away. He has sent one of His warriors to Gimbie, having instructed her to build an Orphans and Widows’ Home there. Her name is Tezera and the Lord has filled her with His Spirit. She is gathering together the staples she needs: permission from local officials, a house, staff and beds - and the children are coming. Like a flood, they are coming. The Lord will lead them out of the stagnant, standing water of the streets where they have been tattered and torn, left hungry and cold, left with AIDS and for death. He will guide them to a home where they can rest, eat and play and heal, drawing from springs of living water whose source is eternal. He will provide for them an earthly guardian under His cover. And we are called as witnesses and to lend support.
Adoption Ministry is in need of families who will adopt the children from this remote part of Ethiopia. Might you be the one who can bring joy to God’s heart by providing a family for a little girl or boy?
Call 1-888-968-2367 or email Becky at becky@adoptionministry.net
Three New Orphans and Widows’ Homes!
 Through missionary contacts in the remote western region of Ethiopia, Adoption Ministry was made aware of the need for social services to women and children. Self-abortions are producing tragic results for young women and their babies. Many babies are left in fields, at the hospital or at police stations - abandoned. Widow women who have no family to help them are in heartbreaking poverty with no hope.
 The Ethiopian government has recognized the success of our model program in Adama and encouraged the Orphans and Widows’ Home to begin ministry in three moderately-sized villages in Western Ethiopia: Gimbie, Dimbidolo and Nekemte. Plans have begun to furnish and staff the three compounds, starting with Gimbie.
Would you or your church consider partnering with us in these new projects? There are many ways to help:
1. Fund the start-up costs for one site
2. Provide all or part of the monthly budget for one site
3. Sponsor an orphan or widow for $30 per/month
4. Come on a missions trip to Ethiopia
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