Mission Trip to Ethiopia

Eddie & I felt called to go on a church mission trip to Ethiopia to serve the Drawn from Water organization. They save children considered cursed from drowning, which is the local custom in three remote villages. We would work in their orphanage in the capital city of Addis Ababa. Plans for the week included painting, taking the kids on a field trip up a mountain to fly kites, filling in for the nannies so they could have a spa retreat, and just generally playing with and loving on the kids. Six of us would be travelling from the two Smyrna, TN campuses and two others would travel from our Seattle campus. The week we were leaving some things came up with the organization which left some doubt as to whether or not we would get to see the kids....