My Crazy Mission Trip- join Team Kari in July!

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My Crazy Mission Trip- join Team Kari in July!

Posted on 23 January 2010 by Kari Gibson

I am beyond CRAZY EXCITED to announce today a very special mission trip that you can join me, Team Kari – this summer. I am co-leading a trip with Ashlie Fulmer to Uganda and Ethiopia with Visiting Orphans …we are building a team of 25 crazy, passionate, loving, inspiring, adventurous bloggy friends to join us – July 19th through August 1st on a trip of a lifetime. I promise you, your life will change forever serving and loving and caring for orphans in Africa!! Here’s the best part, you & I get to meet Katie Davis, my bloggy hero Kisses From Katie and work side by side with her at Amazima in Uganda. They will pre-warn Katie that a crazy mom and her team will be leaping out and hugging her to death! If you are as crazy as I am about orphans, then you will be a perfect team member for Africa in July- BLOG ( www.africainjuly.blogspot.com)

ETHIOPIA & UGANDA

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This trip is available for individual sign ups.

Dates: July 19th to August 1st, 2010

Co-Leaders: Ashlie Fulmer & Kari Gibson

Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia & Jinja, Uganda

Details: The Uganda portion of this trip will be spent working at Amazima Ministries (http://kissesfromkatie.blogspot.com) with their feeding program and with the Karamajong children. Also, we will be working with the orphans at Canaan Children’s Home in Jinja. If you have never heard of Katie Davis and her incredible ministry, please head to her blog and meet a 21 year old woman of God who serves relentlessly the beautiful children and people of Uganda. She has adopted 13 precious girls and writes daily about her adventures of crazy love. You will be inspired!!

The Ethiopian portion of this trip will be spent working with Kid’s Care orphanage, (Zoie’s orphanage) Mother Teresa HIV orphanage, AHope HIV orphanage, children living and working in the dump in Addis Ababa and a ministry for street children.

There will also be a day of ministry at the Ethiopia Fistula Hospital in Addis Ababa. I spent the day at Fistula Hospital when I was in Ethiopia bringing home Zoie. I was stunned by the beauty of the grounds, staff and facility, but the part that pierced my heart were the women- beautiful women who had walked hundreds of miles to seek help from professional treatment, rehabilitation, and prevention. I was deeply impacted touching the faces, holding hands, hugging and encouraging women who had lost all hope. FH is a place that brings back hope to the hopeless. I will never forget the 10 women I met, all lying in beds recovering from a miscarriage. I was able to share with them, through a translator that I, too had lost a baby boy and that I was so sorry for their loss and prayed for their recovery! They started crying and I started crying… we had an instant connection of the heart.

You can find out all the details of the July 19th- Aug. 1 Uganda/Ethiopia Mission trip at Visiting Orphans Website. All you need to do is request an application, fill it out and turn in your $200.00 deposit to hold your spot!

The official blog site hosted by Ashlie Fulmer- www.africainjuly.blogspot.com.