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Opportunities abound in Ethiopia for those wanting to go "on mission." Church planting, evangelism, short-term trips, leadership training, and community initiatives await those looking to connect with life-changing outreaches.
Ethiopia—nearly twice the size of Texas – is one of the poorest countries in Africa. Half of the population lives below the poverty line (recently increased by The World Bank to $1.25 per day). Nearly two-thirds of its 80 million people are illiterate. Agriculture, primarily coffee, is the main- stay. But the country is besieged by drought and devastated by famine. Ethiopia is located in eastern Africa, just west of Somalia and has about 85 million residents. Ethiopia is also one of the world’s first Christian nations. The gospel arrived in the 4th century, and Islam followed about 300 years later. Since the time of Muhammad, Christianity and Islam have coexisted. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church was the official state church from 1270 until the 1974 revolution that replaced Emperor Haile Selassie with a Marxist government. From that time, until the regime’s collapse in 1991, Christians were persecuted, and Islamization expanded and became entrenched.