Planting churches and training church leaders are twin passions for long-time CMF missionaries Craig and Allison Fowler, but the couple uses holistic methods to gain a voice with people living in the remote villages of Ethiopia.
When the Ethiopian government shut down the economy due to the Coronavirus pandemic, the leaders of the Ellilta Women at Risk (EWAR) ministry to women in Addis Ababa wondered if their organization could survive.
Jake Moore had never recorded a podcast before, but that didn’t stop the former CMF missionary from stepping up when he realized how helpful a podcast could be for the organization’s team members around the world.
“We had one incredible week of ministry and then literally the whole world shut down!” said campus minister Rachel Rubin, who serves with the La Ruta team in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Although the leaders of the churches in Ethiopia are dealing with the Coronavirus pandemic, they are still very concerned about how the virus is impacting the churches in the United States and pray for them regularly, reports Ethiopia team leader Craig Fowler.
Ethiopian evangelist Obo Lemessa had a great weekend recently, baptizing nine people in the team’s outreach area of Becho, but it wasn’t without some challenges.
“Lemessa is an evangelist on our team,” said CMF team member Craig Fowler,
Veteran CMF missionaries Craig and Allison Fowler and their three children have been “all in” for serving God’s call on their lives since they arrived in Ethiopia in 2005. The couple has opened and managed a successful medical clinic in the bush, baptized hundreds, planted dozens of churches, and much more. On a recent stop-over at the CMF home office in Indianapolis they shared why they chose Ethiopia, what their ministry has been like, and what they’re excited about doing when they return in March 2020.
Tyler and Katie Selby and their children Ruby and Joanna serve with CMF’s team in Ethiopia, where they live in a “village” of 200,000 people with minimal infrastructure. They visited our Indianapolis home office recently and shared some thoughts about their eventful first term of ministry.
For the past seven years God has been working in the most remote part of southwest Ethiopia near the South Sudan border in incredible ways, according to CMF team members Ted and Jennifer Bertleson.