Email from Trey
I’m sorry I haven’t written for awhile. I been trying, but we have limited time on the computer, and I’m such a slow typist, and the power has been off for two days now. But anyway, about life here. Could you buy tickets for everyone, and all of you move over here? I absolutely love it here. I would love to live here and care for orphans. The people are wonderful, the culture is awesome, the country is beautiful, the children are lovely. But on the flip side, poverty is rampant, you can see, in almost everyone’s eyes, a harder life, and more pain, than all of us probably will ever feel. And the orphans are heartbreaking. We’ve seen, maybe, two hundred of them in the orphanages( no telling how many of the children on the streets are orphans), and to think that there are thousands of them just here in Addis, is just heartbreaking. I keep thinking about what Jamie said when he came back though, comparing the poverty here our spiritual poverty, and what they need, is what we have been given, the Riches of Christs Blood. But how do we share the gospel with then when we do not speak the language, and and even if we did,it would just be words, and we’ll just turn around and go home, there would be no real living out of the gospel. I feel like an orphan tourist, coming in and playing with them, taking some pictures, giving them candy, then leaving them hyper on sugar, and going home. i think most of the people in the group here are feeling that way, so please pray that the Lord will use this trip to make a lasting impact on our lives, and that it will bear lasting fruit. well, i’d better let someone else have a turn on the computer. I love y’all.
P.S. would you please send me a picture of the family. and some good pictures of Josiah?

Another update on Together for Adoption

BTW If anyone doesn’t already know- Trey is in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with Anthony Mathenia. They are on the Orphans Refuge trip with Together for Adoption and will be spending the second week working with some men from Zambia working on PTI.