My Crazy Mission Trip- join Team Kari in July!
I am beyond CRAZY EXCITED to announce today a very special mission trip that you can join me, Team Kari – this summer. I am co-leading a trip with Ashlie Fulmer to Uganda and Ethiopia with Visiting Orphans …we are building a team of 25 crazy, passionate, loving, inspiring, adventurous 
bloggy friends to join us – July 19th through August 1st on a trip of a lifetime. I promise you, your life will change forever serving and loving and caring for orphans in Africa!! Here’s the best part, you & I get to meet Katie Davis, my bloggy hero Kisses From Katie and work side by side with her at Amazima in Uganda. They will pre-warn Katie that a crazy mom and her team will be leaping out and hugging her to death! If you are as crazy as I am about orphans, then you will be a perfect team member for Africa in July- BLOG ( www.africainjuly.blogspot.com)
ETHIOPIA & UGANDA
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- This trip is available for individual sign ups.
- Dates: July 19th to August 1st, 2010
- Co-Leaders: Ashlie Fulmer & Kari Gibson
- Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia & Jinja, Uganda
Details: The Uganda portion of this trip will be spent working at Amazima Ministries (http://kissesfromkatie.blogspot.com)
with their feeding program and with the Karamajong children. Also, we will be working with the orphans at Canaan Children’s Home in Jinja. If you have never heard of Katie Davis and her incredible ministry, please head to her blog and meet a 21 year old woman of God who serves relentlessly the beautiful children and people of Uganda. She has adopted 13 precious girls and writes daily about her adventures of crazy love. You will be inspired!!
The Ethiopian portion of this trip will be spent working with Kid’s Care orphanage, (Zoie’s orphanage) Mother Teresa HIV orphanage, AHope HIV orphanage, children living and working in the dump in Addis Ababa and a ministry for street children.
There will also be a day of ministry at the Ethiopia Fistula Hospital in Addis Ababa. I spent the day at Fistula Hospital when I was in Ethiopia bringing home Zoie. I was stunned by the beauty of the grounds, staff and facility, but the part that pierced my heart were the women- beautiful women who had walked hundreds of miles to seek help from professional treatment, rehabilitation, and prevention. I was deeply impacted touching the faces, holding hands, hugging and encouraging women who had lost all hope. FH is a place that brings back hope to the hopeless. I will never forget the 10 women I met, all lying in beds recovering from a miscarriage. I was able to share with them, through a translator that I, too had lost a baby boy and that I was so sorry for their loss and prayed for their recovery! They started crying and I started crying… we had an instant connection of the heart.
You can find out all the details of the July 19th- Aug. 1 Uganda/Ethiopia Mission trip at Visiting Orphans Website. All you need to do is request an application, fill it out and turn in your $200.00 deposit to hold your spot!
The official blog site hosted by Ashlie Fulmer- www.africainjuly.blogspot.com.
Cost of Mission Trip: $3,400.00 (includes everything!!) This trips will fill up very fast, so contact Amanda Clark (Visiting Orphans Website) to get your application packet today.
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Kari, I have thought of going on this trip with Visiting Orphans!! I just asked my husband if he would prayerfully consider this with me!! We are in the middle of moving back to the US and there are so many unknowns right now but I WOULD LOVE TO GO!!! I have been following Katie for along time now and love what she is doing!! To go there and see what she is doing first hand would be amazing!! To visit the orphanages and see the children would be something I have never done! It would be an absolute dream come true…. so I will pray and you never know…….
My husband would stay home with our four children and that for me alone would be a huge step, plus I hate to fly!!! Oh you have to laugh!!! If God IS calling me to this, then He has such a way of making me deal with stepping out of my comfort zone!!!!
Please pray with me Kari!! I'd love to go!
Naomi, I was actually up at 3am this morning praying for my mission team. I'm in the same boat- my hubby will stay home with the kids & it make my heart at peace knowing they are in daddy's hands:) I'm very blessed with an incredible hubby & daddy. Sounds like you do too:) I will pray specifically that God will open the doors wide for you to be able to come. It truly will be a CRAZY trip of a life time.
Kari, Im so praying about this..as for me leaving my husband for 2 weeks with 3 kids all while trying to raise the money for our adoption..but I love Katie and this trip has been on my heart for months and to get to go with you and others would be great..praying for Gods leading
Paige, I will pray!!!! I understand the desire to go, but also understand the challenges raising money for adoption. WHEW! God will let your heart know if this is the right time. The trip will be full of very unique experiences that you would NOT be able to do when you travel to pick up your child. That is something to consider, too:)
Kari,
I read this and my heart jumped. I would LOVE to do this. Will now wait on the Lord and see what he says.
Sister, you know how much I want you to go with Team Kari!!!! We will be crazy together:) God has opened this special opportunity and I'm extremely blessed to be able to go. We will need a team of 25 and a few spots have been taken, so definitely keep praying… thank you for allowing me to be a part of the HopeChest Valentines Day Project. This was really all your fault:)) lol
This would be a dream come true! We will call on God and see what doors open. Huge door has already open with hubby saying yes to staying with our daughter. So we will see. I am filling out the app. right now.
Oh, Kari, this would be awesome! I will pray for God's leading on this…my mind says that I shouldn't go b/c I would have to raise money for the trip while trying to raise money for our adoption. But God's ways our higher than our ways, so I'll just be praying that everyone on your team will know they are supposed to be on your team and that they will step out in obedience and faith to go…and that will be praying for myself in the process. 🙂
Would so love to do this!! Don't know how I'd tear myself away from my fam — or come up with the $$ (b/c adoption #2 is draining us)…but, doesn't mean that God isn't bigger than my heart or finances!
What a great opportunity!! To the ladies raising money for adoptions and leaving kids behind…don't let that stop you!!! God will provide! I went while waiting on our I171-H and He provided every penny for both adoption and missions. Go, go, go!!! Go for me!!
I would absolutely LOVE to go. But I'm another trying to raise money for an adoption too… but I really want to do this! I'm going to be praying about this with my husband.
Kari, I recently ran into you & your hubby & precious Zoie at VS in the mall/Springfield. It has been my hearts desire since highschool to do a trip like this. It just so happens that the locations you are offering are the two that have been on my heart. (Love Katie D!!) Praying about how to raise the $$ so I can join you on this mission of love. <3
WOW Kari, what a response!!!! Team Ashlie is forming nicely!! I cannot wait to see what God does through this trip!!! Ladies considering going, I am the 2nd half of the "co-leader" and I am praying that God provides for you!!!!!
Please check out: http://www.fulmerstory.blogspot.com to "meet" me!
Joyfully, Ashlie
ok, I did… application sent!
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What an opportunity! I've been following Katie for a while now, and that would be Amazing! Pun intended! I'm hoping that someday my sister (Julie from Something Clever) will lead a trip that I can go on with her! Praying for you all!
I wanna go, I wanna go, I wanna go!!!
The End
Kari, my heart is stirring and longing to go on this trip. I am taking this weekend to fast and pray about this. I do not think it is something that both my husband and I could do. Though I think it would be so powerful for him at go and long for that. But if only one of us could go I really want it to be me. I have been following Katies blog for awhile and I just love her and cry over just about every post. I hope you are not full. Monday , I will either send my application or not. 🙁 Of course every one of these opportunities leaves me w/ ….. " This is money that could go towards our adoption." But if adoption is not the will for this family , I am drawn and feel led to something and right now I think it may be this!!!