Return of the Prodigal

An ex-Adventist receives a vision with a heavenly message. A few weeks ago, I visited the Darara-Lasha church in southern Ethiopia. After two hours of travel, I arrived to meet an aged gentleman. He kindly welcomed me and introduced himself as Mr. Tesema Asaro. As we walked together, he shared his story. A little more than twenty years ago, Mr. …

Reaching the Impossible Town

An Ethiopian community’s journey from darkness to light. Hadero is a commercial district in Ethiopia where people love to shop and do business—especially on Saturdays. Catholic, Orthodox, Muslim, and Protestant exist here together, and there is a great need for a genuine revival of true godliness. Since the 1990s, Seventh-day Adventists have tried to penetrate this area with the Three …

A Miracle of Healing

A Miracle of Healing A young man is healed and finds his true calling. My father was a priest of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. I adhered to the religion of my parents until age 17, when a relative gave me a book called The Great Controversy by Ellen White. I read it five times over, trying to grasp the full …

Letter from Mike: Ethiopia – August 2019

“Of equal importance with public effort is house-to-house work in the homes of the people. As the result of the presentation of truth in large congregations, a spirit of inquiry is awakened, and it is especially important that this interest be followed by personal labor. Those who desire to investigate the truth need to be taught to study diligently the …

Fire from Heaven

Fire from Heaven When local villagers mock God’s people, He intervenes to provide land for a church. At a place called Hobicho in southern Ethiopia, no Seventh-day Adventists could be found. Then Mrs. Tagesech Birhanu moved there with her non-SDA husband—a drunkard, smoker and narcotic user. Whenever Tagesech’s pastor or other Adventist friends visited, her husband mocked at them. Still, …