Today is our last teaching day in Ethiopia this year. Only Jim, Pat, and I will visit and teach; the boys will stay at the Hilton to hang out and to prepare some teaching materials to leave with Ethiopians. Our visit for the first half of the day was to Kara, the church for which Wubishet (WOOB shet) is the local preacher. Friday is a work day in Addis, of course, but about thirty people were able to come for our teaching. I presented a short introductory devotional talk and then we divided into men’s and ladies’ classes. Wubishet had arranged for the men’s class to be Q & A, so I conducted this for about forty-five minutes. The day was slipping away, so we ended to return to the Hilton for a quick lunch before our second program. While we taught, I asked the boys to cut the translations Beyene prepared before we left the US and to tape them on the flip charts that we will leave for Ethiopians to use in teaching children.
Jim, Pat, and I next visited the Sefara church, for which Mesfin and Tagasse are the local preachers. Only a handful of people were there when we arrived, so we waited about thirty minutes for others. Eventually, almost twenty assembled and we taught our last lessons in Ethiopia for 2009. By this time, both Pat and I were just about on automatic pilot, but we pressed on to do our best for yet another group. We returned to the Hilton, had dinner, and completed packing and preparing for an early morning departure.
