Korah...A Village in Ethiopia

This is a tough one. My sister blogged about this one the other day and the video is a very hard one to watch. It is the story about a village called Korah. It is just outside the city of Addis Ababa (where we are adopting our two babies from) and is a town that, until recently, has been forgotten.

You can read more about it here.


The Village of Korah - A short documentary from Session 7 Media on Vimeo.

A few facts about Korah:

• Korah in Amharic means "cursed".
• 75 years ago the Ethiopian government moved everyone with leprosy to this area of Addis Ababa.
• Approximately 100,000 people live in the slums of Korah - the "outcasts" of society.
• The city dump is located in Korah.
• The people, both adults and children, spend their days digging through the dump searching for anything to eat or sell.
• God is alive and well in Korah thanks to Pastor Sammy Liben and Project 61 Ministries. They have started an education sponsorship program for the children of Korah.

(To learn more about the history of Korah, you can go here.)

 I have been to places like this and it is a hard reality to see and experience. I am drawn back to my last trip to Africa a few years ago. I was at a dump in Burkina Faso and saw kids scrounging through to find scraps to eat and any metal they could use for their home. I don't know what to do with it. I want to go and pull ll those people out of there; I want to send them all my money; I want to adopt all the kids; I am overwhelmed.

Tonight...I pray. I pray for the people I see in this video. I pray for the people I met at the dump in Burkina. I pray for my kids who I will hopefully meet in the next half a year or so. I pray for their birth parents. I pray.

We are on the LIST!!!

Last week while we were at LIFE conference we got some great news. Our dossier was sent off to Ethiopia. That means we are on the list. We watched as the DHL tracking kept moving along. It was very exciting, but most exciting was when we saw that it had arrived in Addis Ababa. I shared earlier that there are some similarities of going through the adoption process to going through pregnancy. This moment is likened to hearing the baby's heart beat. this is the most excited I think I have been in this whole process. Now it's just waiting and raising the funds for the next check. Thought you might like to join us on the journey we went on.