Amharic Bible Schools Trip
March 11 – 20, 2003, Harold and Becky Jongeward traveled with Girma Hanano, the Amharic Bible Schools Coordinator for Kale Heywet (Word of Life) Church to visit 29 Amharic Bible Schools in Southern and Southwestern Ethiopia.
- We started and ended in Addis Ababa, the capital city.
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- The first Bible School we visited was Arsi Negele. Girma is the man in the blue vest. No afternoon classes therefore no students.
- We visited three Bible Schools in Awasa. For this night Bible School, the students sit on benches.
- This old lady watched as we visited the Gorbe Golola Bible School.
- Everywhere we went we experienced Ethiopian hospitality. In Soyama, we ate national food by the light of a kerosene lamp.
- Girma’s son, Stephanos rode with us from Soyama to Soddo. Here we’re overlooking the Rift Valley near Konso.
- Chencha Bible School library was well organized and used by the whole community.
- A local Kucha hut. The Dosha Bible School uses a hut like this for the student dorm and another one for the teachers’ lounge.
- Sunday in Sawla Harold and Becky visited this church of a thousand while Girma went to another. Altogether the town of 30,000 people has six churches. For lack of elsewhere to sit, kids sit on the edge of the platform facing the audience. The offering box is just behind them.
- Waka, with 10 students, was the smallest Bible School we visited.
- Durami was the largest at 105 students. Durami is where we served Oct 1974 – June 1976. In fact, Harold taught Bible School classes in this very classroom.
