Heart for Ethiopia

06/11/2024

Reviewed by Philip Van Heusen for Readers’ Favorite

I have read missionary stories (starting with The Life and Diary of David Brainerd) for the past sixty years. Lauralee Lindholm’s Out of Darkness into Light stands with the best of the missionary books I have read. I have personal friends who were missionaries in the 50s-70s. Many people think missionaries live a life of exotic adventure and fun, but I can testify that they work hard. Lauralee shares the struggles, victories, and defeats often seen in the mission field. Before a missionary can reach the hearts of those they minister to, they must first meet their basic needs. The old saying, “Hungry stomachs have no ears,” is very true. Lauralee and her team taught the people of Menz, Ethiopia, how to make and sell woven rugs to supplement their meager income. Once the people learned to trust the missionaries, they were more receptive to the Gospel. This book will keep you on the edge of your seat as you see the hand of God at work and marvel at His miracles and answers to prayer.

Lauralee Lindholm shares the life and work of missionaries in Out of Darkness into Light. This book lifts the curtain and allows the reader to see the heart of missions. Lauralee writes in a simple style, including myriad Scriptures, that will clearly leave the reader wanting to learn more about missions and how to support missionaries. Her mission team produced no tangible results for six years, but God was still at work, and the harvest finally came. Missionary work aims to impact souls for the Kingdom of God and develop indigenous churches. The stories shared in this book are beyond fantastic and will enlighten you on what missionaries really do. This book should increase your prayer that God will send 'laborers into the field white unto harvest.' This is one book on missions that you don’t want to miss.

06/07/2024

Review by Pikasho Deka for Readers' Favorite

In Out of Darkness Into Light, Lauralee Lindholm shares her experiences in Ethiopia as a Southern Baptist missionary in the late 1960s and the 70s with this tell-all memoir. Lauralee and her husband Ray went to Ethiopia in 1969 with their three children to spread the word of God. They found themselves serving a community development program in Menz and began learning the local language of Amharic. As they witnessed extreme poverty, crime, adultery, and belief in pagan practices, Lauralee suspected the hand of Satan. They relived the days of Acts with Paul and the disciples with their own spiritual warfare. While Ray taught rug weaving, many from the Orthodox Church accepted Christ as their Lord and Savior. But political turmoil forced them to leave in 1976, and it would be decades before they set foot in Ethiopia again.

Out of Darkness Into Light is a remarkable story of faith, resilience and perseverance. Lauralee Lindholm tells her story about the challenges she and her fellow missionaries had to overcome to spread the teachings of Christ. These missionaries risked their lives during the war between government troops and the rebels in the 70s and held on to their faith as houses burned down all around them while people persecuted them for their faith. Men like Priest Girma, Abba Asefa, and Aschallew are truly inspirational. Lindholm gives an unflinching account of her time in Ethiopia and, toward the end, celebrates the rise of New Testament followers over the past few decades in the country. I found this memoir inspirational, informative, and motivational. This book is a must-read for Christians.

05/22/2024

The history of HFE

05/22/2024

https://www.ebayforcharity.org/stories/heart-for-ethiopia/

About Heart for Ethiopia Heart for Ethiopia is dedicated to development projects in rural Ethiopia. They support schools for children 5-12 years old who previously did not have access to education, as well as adult literacy classes, health education, sports activities for the youth, […]

03/30/2023

Nothing is too hard for the maker of heaven and earth.
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03/30/2023

Soddo Addis Kidan School
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"Truly I say to you, unless you are changed to be like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven".
Matt 18:3

01/07/2023

BLESS Your Beautiful Christmas
Heart For Ethiopia!
May every home, and feast, and prayer 🙏🏽 of this holy time be blessed with Christ's presence. He is with us, Amanuel!
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02/11/2022

Peace I leave you.
My Peace I give to you.
Not as the world gives, do I give to you.
John 14:27

01/21/2022

06/14/2021

2021 Addis Kidan leadership and meetings. Heart For Ethiopia nonprofit is steadily growing alongside the church. Food distribution continues in 2021.
There are many people displaced by war in the Northern provinces.