First Day in Addis

September 24, 2008 Wednesday

We officially woke up at 5am. Frankfurt airport starting to get busy. Our flight leaves at 10:15am. Had a stop-over at Khartoum, Sudan. The land was brown, dry, and very warm. I tried to take a picture from the plane's open door. Two guys warned me not to do it because the soldiers will come and take away my camera if they saw me. Arrived in Addis Ababa 30 minutes earlier than expected. It took a while to have our turn in passport control because people kept cutting in line. Finally managed to get out. Abby's parents and one Filipino missionary were waiting for us outside. So excited to see them. Addis Ababa reminds me of the Philippines. Had to drive an hour and a half to Adama, which will be our base. Had to drive up and down the mountains. Thank God for a wonderful journey.

-peter-

Journey to Africa

September 23, 2008 Tuesday

This is the beginning of our journey to Ethiopia, Africa. Before it even began we have been showered with blessings. We took the Grayhound bus from Malmo to Copenhagen airport because one free ticket arrived in the mail two days ago. We've brought so many gifts and give-aways that we had to take off three kilos of our own stuff from our suitcases. We were able to check-in early but the guy can only check us in 'til Frankfurt but he managed to send our luggage all the way to Ethiopia. I do hope it would be there when we arrive because we still need to spend the night in Frankfurt. Our flight left exactly on time and we also reached Frankfurt 20 minutes earlier than expected.

In Frankfurt, we went directly to the transit counter and the nice lady checked us in for our flight to Addis Ababa and she gave us nice seats too, in front with lots of leg room. She also gave us directions on where we can find nice, comfy chairs to lay on. I guess we weren't good enough in folllowing directions because we walked around for an hour but couldn't find the nice, comfy chairs. So we just ate dinner (we were so hungry, no food in the plane) and camped inside a cafe. It's a reasonably ok place because it was a little dark and offered us a little privacy. The benches weren't very comfortable though so we spent half the night awake and preparing sermons.

Follow Peter & Abby Hansen's special journey into Africa

Follow Peter & Abby Hansen's special journey into Africa, where they will be doing relief and mission outreach. Please come back and check this blog for news and updates.

A little background story:
In 2006 we started with mission and relief outreach in the Philippines. It has brought us to many places in the Philippines. I have been speaking in many different churches like: Baptist, Pentecostal, Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian and Assemblies of God as well as a Christian high school. Alongside the meetings and outdoor crusades, we have been giving out food and clothes. We also sponsored some kids to be able to go to school. Go here to see pictures: http://www.peterhansenministries.com/ or http://www.angelrelief.org/

We love the Philippines and hope to do much more relief work and evangelistic outreach there. We have a passion for "Relief Mission" which means we want to help people with their physical needs, but the most important thing is their spiritual needs! The value of the soul is so important and to know and believe in Jesus Christ is the greatest miracle one can experience, because it gives eternal life!

When we give out food it has an impact now and today, when we preach the gospel it has an impact forever! We want to spread the love of Christ into the third world.

We believe that one day Angel Relief will be making a massive impact in the third world and on these pages you can read more about Angel Relief and you can also find some great articles and news at http://www.peterhansenministries.com/

We have been talking about going to Ethiopia for about a year and a half, but not until February 2008 did a door actually opened and we decided to grab the opportunity to visit this East African country.

My in-laws are working as teachers in Ethiopia, so at least we know where to stay! But we also knew that we wanted to do mission and relief work as well. And we have seriously experienced more opening of doors and windows since day one in February. And we are going to meet some great people there. One of them is Evangelist Henock from the US, who will be meeting with us. He is a young passionate preacher who really has a burden for this nation and Africa. We will write more about our meetings and the people we meet later.

Peter
http://www.angelrelief.org/

http://www.phm.cc/

A Hungry World

Hey guys. It's snowing here...which is really funny. We've had nice weather for two weeks now and I really thought spring is coming. But I guess now we're stuck in "sprinter"... something between winter and spring, haha.

Anyways, I learned something yesterday. I learned that there are 820 million chronically hungry people in developing countries. 10 million people die every year due to hunger and hunger-related diseases. 24 thousand people die from effects of hunger each day...which means 1 person in every 3.6 seconds.

Now I don't mean to be depressing, but that is just how it is. Is there even a solution to such a monumental problem? It's hard to think so. It really is depressing. :-(

Ethiopia

Hey guys...we will be having a mission trip to Ethiopia, Africa in August. The purpose of this trip is to spread the gospel and at the same time help the poor. We will be working with local churches in Adama and Addis Ababa. We really need all the help we can get in raising up funds for this trip.

If you want to help, you can do so by buying pixels in MissionPixels. In this way, you would be contributing for the mission as well as advertising your site. Your link will be there permanently, even after the trip.

Remember, this is not for profit. All the money goes to the mission field. We would also appreciate if you would spread the word.

You can also visit these sites: Angel Relief International and Peter Hansen Ministries

Thank you and may God bless you more.

Weddings

We're not even in the middle of the year yet and we have 3 weddings in the calendar already. Last Feb 23 was the wedding of Philip (Peter's cousin) and Maria. It was a very nice and simple wedding, somewhere in the north of Copenhagen. It was a Danish wedding so I was ready for the long reception....kind of....I had to find ways to amuse myself at the end.

Tomorrow, we are going to attend a Filipino wedding in Copenhagen. It's going to be really nice, especially because I'm going to be able to understand everybody. Peter won't really have a hard time either because I think almost everything would be in English.

The third wedding would be next month. It would be another Filipino wedding. I'll have to write about it more after the event.

We're excited for the wedding tomorrow.

-abby-

Lufthansa Airbus wingstrike at Hamburg

Crazy video of a plane almost crashing in Hamburg just this weekend.