Sponsor a Child

We have joined with Children's Hope Chest to sponsor a child at Grace Baptist Church in Kombolcha, Ethiopia.  A sponsorship fee ($34 monthly) provides resources for children to receive at least one meal a day, school supplies, a school uniform, basic medical care and an education!  Sponsors not only offer monthly support, but encouragement through prayer, letter writing, and relationship.

If you are interested in sponsoring a child, please contact  Candy at mblueberry.madamblueberry@gmail.com.   She will match you with a child, send you a photo and information about your sponsor child along with instructions on how to register as that child's sponsor.

Acceptance Letter

On Monday night (September 26th, 2011), Derek and I received our acceptance letters for the Ethiopia Trip and we were so excited.  It really hasn't set in for Derek yet.  He says it really won't seem real until we start to raise funds....if we are really meant to go then God will provide us with the funds.

On the other hand, I was jumping for joy when I read this:


We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted to join the One Child Campaign Mission and Vision Trip from April 21-30, 2012 to Kombolcha and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. We are looking forward to having you as a member of this team! We will see and experience A LOT and try to also have some good hands on experiences as much as possible...and some fun cultural things too! 

About 2 months Ago...

About 2 months ago Derek and I shared our feelings with one another about helping orphans in Africa.  We had no idea how each other felt until our way home from a "show and tell" about our friend's Uganda trip.  We both felt that God had a plan for us to help the orphans in Africa in some way.  After praying and getting many signs we got together with our pastor to help us decide when and where we would go.

God works in mysterious ways...we originally wanted to go to Uganda and Ethiopia on a 2 week trip.  As we went to apply for that trip we found that it had gotten cancelled.  We then found a trip to Ethiopia associated with One Child Campaign, which was much cheaper and a shorter time frame that works better for our vacation time.  God must really want us to go on this trip because we then got our passports without any bumps in the road in 3 weeks which got us really pumped because this was our "travel pass" to other countries.

Several emails and discussions later led us both to applying for the trip through the One Child Campaign.  We sent our applications and fees in on September 22, 2011....who knew what would come next!!!