Carl E. Hansen

Growing a Seminary in Ethiopia: (eBook, ePUB)

A Triumph of Faith in an Uneasy Odyssey, 1994-2024

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

At the invitation of the Meserete Kristos Church, the author and his companion leave comfortable positions in Nairobi, Kenya, to assist in establishing a "Christian liberal arts college" in Ethiopia. They find a nation in abject poverty, slowly recovering from seventeen years of war and Marxist revolutionary misrule. They find a nascent church, growing at 17% per annum among a deeply depressed and disillusioned population. Stripped of all her institutions and physical assets by the former Dergue regime, the liberated church was starting over. Opening a small Bible institute in 1994, the church envisioned it becoming a tertiary-level college. This autobiographical memoir is a missionary story of expatriate participants attempting to relate to an established church in a culture vastly different than their own. They find that assisting local leadership to achieve their goals can be challenging, especially when visions change, and disagreements arise. It is a human story of cultural clashes, personality conflicts, misunderstandings, changing visions, adapting to changing external developments over a thirty-year period. It is a Christian story of "going the second mile," of repentance, of forgiveness, of reconciliation. It is a faith story, of relying upon God, of God's timing, of God's faithfulness in protection and provision. This is a success story; the small Bible institute becomes a seminary with thousands of graduates leading and blessing a vibrant growing church that is blessing the nation. The events of this story took place in the environs of Addis Ababa and Bishoftu, Ethiopia, over a thirty-year period, between 1994 and 2023.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: WestBow Press
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798385038626
• Artikelnr.: 73233855

Autorenporträt

Carl Edward Hansen was born and raised in rural Alberta and Ontario, Canada. He holds a BA degree (1965) from Eastern Mennonite College and graduate degrees from Goshen Biblical Seminary (M. Div., 1971) and Fuller Theological Seminary (Th.M., 1985). He was united in marriage with Vera Dorothy King in 1964. Together they raised a family of four daughters while serving as missionaries in Eastern Africa for more than thirty-two years. Carl served, first as a high school teacher at the Nazareth Bible Academy from 1967 to 1970, and then as director of a development project in Ethiopia from 1972 to 1975. Between 1975 and 1984, he served as a pastor in Tofield, Alberta. Carl and Vera returned to Africa in 1985, giving direction to a rural community development project in western Kenya, then teaching at the Daystar University in Nairobi until 1995. In January 1996, Carl and Vera returned to Ethiopia to assist the Meserete Kristos Church in establishing its Meserete Kristos College, now Seminary. They retired to Harrisonburg, Virginia in 2011. In retirement, Carl and Vera continue raising support for the seminary in Ethiopia while enjoying their grandchildren and great grandchildren.