Worshiping with new friends!

Sunday a few of the kids and I (tiffany) hopped in the car as we do most Sunday's to go Worship our one true God (that's a song you know?) anyway , we have some friends that are Native Ethiopians. Morgan and I have enjoyed making friends with Selam and Tesh the have a beautiful daughter also adopted from Ethiopia. They have been so kind giving their time to teach us some Amharic so we can communicate not only in Addis but to the kids a bit as well. I should also tell you that when you go to the home of someone from Ethiopia unlike here you are able to drop in un anounced which we have done a couple times. They also feed you something each time you stop by. Whatever they have will do however we have had many wonderful authentic Ethiopian meals. But back to the church.... we thought since Gary and Morgan would be leaving in LESS THEN TWO WEEKS we would go to the Ethiopian Christian Church in Olathe. Their service was wonderful. We had to wear earphones and a nice guy interpreted for us the whole service and some songs. It actually was very nice to listen to his smooth calm voice tell us that Jesus Loves us, that there is no other God but him, that we are a possession of the Lord and he has a plan for your life. If you close your eyes and even say those words to yourself out loud they have a wonderful calming effect. After service which by the way started at 10am and did not get out until 12:30ish. No little 45 minute sermon here folks. Oh before the sermone started it was so wonderful to see each person walk into the sanctuary greet their neighbor and then personally bow ones head and pray to right their own hearts before the Lord and before the service began. There were also many people who raised their hands to God even shed tears as they heard of God's wonderful Love and Jesus's ultimate selfless act. It was refreshing to see that they could be open with their emotions before their friends and family with no concern of being stared at laughed at. it made me wonder how much closer each one of us might be if we were able to be completely open with our emotions before the Lord. It was a wonderful experience and yes we were the only light skinned people there. After worship there were trays of bread with Cayenne pepper rolled in and cinnamon tea that was wonderful while you ate and drank you of course had fellowship no worries and no one hurried to make it to a restaurant. They just had fellowship We were greeted and treated like an old friends. Next time we go we'll let you know, maybe you would like to join us.
Blessings........ Tiffany