NewLife Ethiopia

06/07/2026

NewLife was honored and blessed by a 10-year-old girl who took time to make us a beautiful card and enclose $6.00 designated for our Joyful Place orphanage. Out of all the mail we received that day, this exuberant card and gift put huge smiles on the faces of our entire staff. Blog link

06/07/2026

NewLife was honored and blessed by a 10-year-old girl who took time to make us a beautiful card and enclose $6.00 designated for our Joyful Place orphanage. Out of all the mail we received that day, this exuberant card and gift put huge smiles on the faces of our entire staff.

Jesus delighted in children and held their innocent trust up as a model for us grown-ups. “And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” – Matthew 18:3 This verse challenges us to embrace a childlike spirit in ...

05/30/2026

The month of May brought an outpouring of joy to our Joyful Place orphanage as several precious children were welcomed into their forever families through adoption. Blog link

05/30/2026

The month of May brought an outpouring of joy to our Joyful Place orphanage as several precious children were welcomed into their forever families through adoption.

The month of May brought an outpouring of joy to our Joyful Place orphanage as several precious children were welcomed into their forever families through adoption. Every baby and toddler who comes into our care is entrusted to us through the government agency responsible for orphaned and abandoned....

05/24/2026

This blog post is about God supernaturally healing a young man, and for that we give God all thanks and praise. But it is also about a humble missionary who took a risk by loving someone others saw as unlovable.

by Joy Casey When the following story was related to me, this verse quoted in the gospels came to mind: You must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength, and all your mind. And, love your neighbor as yourself. I pondered what loving my neighbor as myself would lo...

05/08/2026

04/25/2026

God hears the cries of vulnerable children needing to be rescued. And He is equally near to the hearts of couples grieving the absence of a child. Every tear is seen. Every prayer is heard. Each one is safely recorded.

Wow—this scripture reveals the incredible intimacy and boundless compassion of God. The families who adopted three of our children in Ethiopia are couples who have long carried the acute ache of infertility. It is a sorrow unlike any other, often accompanied by countless tears and anguished prayer...

04/12/2026

NewLife has vetted, trained and launched thirty-one men behind enemy lines. They live humble lives and are acquainted with persecution. Most live without electricity or running water, many do not have easy access to schools for their children. Read more about these incredible men here..

The following “beatitudes” is written by Dan Steel who has been involved in various aspects of church planting for 25 years. It made me think: how do we measure success in our culture, and how does that measure translate into rural Ethiopian culture? And, dressed in sneakers, when he saw the cro...