Minute for Mission of the Month

ETHIOPIA

Conta-Dawro — ECO# E040019

A people movement to Christ began among the Conta-Dawro people in Ameya when a woman saw a vision of Jesus.  After she found Christians to teach her about Jesus, she brought friends and neighbors to Christ.

The pastor of the Ameya church was once the town “Dope Head.” He sold local chat and was addicted to chat, alcohol and cigarettes.  He was completely dissolute; after he touched a cup in the local tavern, no one else would touch it.  One day he sat in despair, not medicating himself, weeping the whole day long.  Some of his friends’ lives been had transformed by Jesus, and in the evening he said, like the prodigal, “I need to be born again.” 

People walk two and three days into the town of Ameya, and these days they come in not only for trade goods but for the Gospel.  “We hear that the power of Jesus is greater than the power of the spirits that rule over us,” they say. “Teach us about Jesus.”

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