The Ethiopian Church Journal Blog

Battling Cancer Together Cancer in recent years has overtaken HIV/AIDS and malaria as a growing national concern in Ethiopia . Lack of public awareness and deep poverty is partly to blame. Another issue has to do with poorly equipped medical facility. There is only one cancer center staffed by four overworked specialists using one cobalt machine to serve a population of 83 million. The center currently attends to needs of 6,000 patients with 2,000 more newly diagnosed each year. Wait time to receive even a modicum of help is six months during which 14 per cent of patients die before seeing a physician. Two cancer survivor-mothers and their friends are now trying to change all that. And they are up against a host of challenges. Do you know you could be part of their team? Do you realize your efforts could mean saving mothers so children are not orphaned? And widowers left to raise children all alone? Please read full details in BCE . For those who read Amharic click Ethiopianchurch.o

No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven--the Son of Man [even the Lord Jesus Christ]. …I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? …"The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above all… For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me… They said, "Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, 'I came down from heaven'?"… What if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before! [Gospel of John 3:13 , 31; 6: 12 , 38, 42, 62] “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for