yk - nl - 9 yetnbit kal newsletter dec 2008-jan2009 (english)

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“The second coming which is sure and

objective”, the Sabbath divine service Pr.

Tiruneh on “The second coming that came

so close”, Sabbath afternoon Pr. Bekele Birrion “The Sabbath” and same afternoon Br.

Melak Alemayehu on “Preparation for the

second coming”, Sunday three ministers Mr.

Wagner Herman, ADRA Ethiopia director,

on “ Working for the second coming”, Dr.

Wubishet Lakew on “Stead fast unto theend” and Pr. Tadesse Adugna on “ Hold

tight what you have”. Every body on the

events was so up lifted and the Lord

abundantly blessed what has been planned to

be continuous every three months. Both the

Filwoha and Gerji blessings have been video

recorded and subscriptions through Yetnbit

Kal can be made.

Pr. Alemu Haile, EUM president, held

talks with Addis Ababa church youth

“Let us talk” as many of you might

have already known is a blessed dialogue of

our global church youth with our General

conference president Pr. Jan Paulsen using

the modern technology of video conference.

While you may get details much more on

this from http://letstalk.adventist.org/ o ur main

topic now is Ethiopian version of it held on

July 5, 2008 at Filwoha SDA church with

youth representing our many churches in thecapital. Hosted by Br. Mulualem Ferede,

Filwoha church youth leader brief

presentation on various Church activities

was first made by the pastor and followed a

discussion session where attendants’

questions included: issues regarding

Zewuditu Memorial Hospital, once

Adventist property, points related to the

practical element of education in our

Adventist settings that represents the hand of

our schools’ logo and others. Responses

were given for each which indeed were

more than satisfactory and the president

announced plans to repeat such events in



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other fields and make them regular. Yetnbit

Kal highly commends this activity that

brings our leadership closer to the church

community especially the youth andsubscription to the DVD of this first

discussion could be made through Yetnbit

Kal.

Ethiopian Union Mission stewardship

director in South Africa

Pr. Bekele Gebre, director of EUM

stewardship, Global Mission, family and

ministerial departments is presently in South

Africa on ministerial travel. It is to be

recalled that the Ethiopian Adventist

community in South Africa has blessed

reputation of inviting ministers both

preachers and singers on regular basis. Pr.

Bekele just before his departure gave us

detailed report of his blessed activities

including huge seminars for pastors and

their wives held in west and South Ethiopiafields with his ECD counterpart Dr.

Kakembo and wife. Yetnbitkal will write

and display on its home page detailed

reports of the departmental activities plus

the travel as Pr. Bekele returns home.

Blessed audio – video resources

flourishing

Filwoha Church choir member and

solo singer Julyata Shibiru recently

released her first volume CD on

November 15, 2008. Same Sabbath at

6:00 pm our Filwoha church hosted

special event for the launching of the CD

where she sang some of the songs and

other choirs presented special music in

the middle of which EUM technician

Gemechu Tadesse hosted inspiring

interview to Julyata.

Sr Juliyata told attendants while she

was aspiring and praying about the

release of the songs but unable because



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of financial constraints the readiness of

br. Dawit Mahari, leader of Yetnbit kal

ministries, for facilitations was noting

less than a miracle that moved her to dothe studio works in the very last days of

her first pregnancy.

Br Dawit in his part expressed

heartiest gratitude to Julyata for she

whole heartedly dedicated the income to

be raised through the CD distribution for

the ministries’ expansion of such

endeavors by Yetnbit Kal. Moreover,

Yetnbit Kal prepared video recordings of sermons by Pr. Tiruneh W/Silasie, Pr.

Bekele Gebre, Pr. Mandefro Alemayehu

Br. Melak Alemayehu, Special

witnessings and translation of a program

on Christian parenting by 3ABN. The

Filwoha church recently secured a

special sound system and a video camera

through a free offer and produced a fancy

studio with in the chapel that ensured

availability of many other audio-videomaterials for the future. This is going to

be an addition to the audio CDs prepared

for the Kotobe crusade plus “The last day

events” and “Life without limbs” VCDs

translated by Adventist fellows in Addis

and especially “Life without limbs”prepared by Kana studio received wide

distribution in almost all parts of the

country. Head of Kana studio Mulugeta

Melese told Yetnbit Kal the second

volume of Nick voicic’s “Life without

limbs” is getting finalized very soon.

Praising lord for all Yetnbit Kal would

like to open its door for subscription of

any of these materials through its

address.

Parosia in new phase of program

The pioneer Adventist paper in

Ethiopia, Parosia was first released some

12 years back by Filwoha SDA church

youth. Having made remarkable

contribution through its several releases

and passing an epoch of silence due to



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challenges parosia is in its new and

marvelous phase of renaissance. At the

parosia evening held on Dec. 13, 2008, at

its host church founders explained thelong journey of the paper, valuable

criticisms were coined and the publishers

explained on present status plus plans.

The first issue, Meskerem-Tikimt, was

released in September, 2008 and in

December came the next issue, Hidar-Tahisas, for this Ethiopian year having

boosted its contents both in size and

approach plus cutting price. Very

interestingly the paper also secured a

home page at www.parosia.org which is

under development. Our readers are

kindly encouraged to benefit from and

contribute to this ministry to the best of

their capacity.

Wonderful news from Temesgen

Bulti, EUM health director

Incredible news came from our Union

Health Department about the 2008 Ethiopian

HIV/AIDS Training of Trainers (TOT) for

Support Group Leaders which was

conducted in two Fields under Ethiopia

Union Mission – Tigray Mission Field

(Mekelle) and Central Ethiopia Field (Addis

Ababa). The training was conducted by

collaboration between EUM healthdepartment and Adventist AIDS

International Ministry (AAIM). AAIM

director, Dr. Oscar Giordano was in Ethiopia

last November doing a blessed work for

which our Lord Jesus left us examples to

follow. Detailed report by br. Temesgen hasbeen kept at www.yetnbitkal.org/news and

our readers are kindly encouraged to enjoy.

May God bless all who took part in this.

Elshaday Relief and Development

Agency the visionary movement

Our beloved readers remember in our

last issue we introduced you Dynamic

International University College and

promised to come up in every issue with one

developmental activity where Adventists are

significantly contributing to the community

at large. For this issue we are honored to

introduce ERDA founded by Yemane

W/mariyam, a renowned figure in Church

based developmental activities and presently

director of Elshaday. Having its head office

in the Ethiopia Union mission Head-quarter



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facility, ERDA is working in its full capacity

to counter the key national concern,

beggary. Please go to

www.yetnbitkal.org/news and enjoy the fullstory of Elshaday Relief and Development

Agency.

Yetnbit Kal in need of your support

Yetnbit Kal ministry, praise the Lord

forever, has enjoyed numerous blessings in

serving in the master’s vine yard for the last

several years but practically up on no

material resource. Many times different

sisters voluntarily supported in typing and

various fellows lent their desktop or laptopcomputers for few days for news letter

preparations. Br. Dawit used his personal lap

top for writing the magazine and managing

the site. But at times when fellows and their

facilities got busy with their regular duties

Yetnbit Kal activities are getting seriously

affected like the news letter where this 12 th

issue that came after some eight months

from the 11 th issue. There also are many

plans not yet implemented due to financial

reasons in audio-visual activities and others.

So how can you kindly join Yetnbit Kal in

supporting to get laptop facilities and in any

other means? May the Lord lead and bless

you as you strengthen hands for the good

work.

For your Prayers

We hope and even know practically

all of our readers welcome Yetnbit Kal

materials and especially this newsletterevery issue. Some also send us their

comments, encouragements and gratitude.

But writing the Lord’s blessings at home

could we be misleading that everything here

is fine and we need no more? That we fear.

So, kindly put the Ethiopian Church, its this

and that as you bow before the Lord for

prayers. May we faithfully do this and enjoy

abundant blessings on the condition “Ask

and …” May God bless us all as we join

here!!



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Leweru

Monkey’s trap

An interesting system has been used for capturing monkeys in the jungles of Africa. Thegoal is to take the monkeys alive and unharmed for shipment to zoos of America.

In an extremely human way, the captors use heavy bottles, with long narrow necks, in towhich they deposit a handful of sweet smelling nuts. The bottles are dropped in the jungle floor,and the captors return the next morning to find a monkey trapped next to each bottle.

How is it accomplished? The monkey, attracted by the aromatic scent of the nuts, comesto investigate the bottles and surely gets trapped.

This is because the monkey can’t take its hand out of the bottle as long it is holding thenuts, but is unwilling to open its hand and let them go. The bottle is too heavy to carry away, sosimply it means the monkey is trapped.

We may smile at the fool monkeys, but how often we hold to our problems so tenaciouslylike the monkeys hold to the nuts in the bottle and so, figuratively we carry our bottles aroundfeeling very sorry for ourselves, and begging for sympathy from God and even our friends. SoGod wants to intervene in our lives but he can’t till we are willing leave what we are told to.

Taken from 2000 E.C. Graduates’ bulletin

of Ethiopian SDA College and University

Students Fellowship

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“. . . the gospel of God – the gospel He promised beforehand through His prophets in the Holy

Scriptures regarding His Son, who as to human nature was a descendant of David, and who through

the spirit of holiness was declared with power to be the son of God by His resurrection from the dead:

Jesus Christ our Lord. Rom. 1: 1-4



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Editor’s Note

4 Hallelujah forever the 12th

issue of Yetnbit Kal newsletterhas just been released for the new year, 2009. We thank God once again

for its reality and we would like to heartily apologize for the highly

extended delay of the issue.4 We highly wish to increase our recipients of both email newsletter and

magazine, either online or in hard copy. You may also kindly notify us

any address change you may make. So, please pass the information and

invite all friends to subscribe for free at ‘ [email protected] ’ or our

post addresses (but the address in Germany is temporarily out of

service):

Yetnbit Kal Ministries Yetnbit Kal

P.O. Box 190346 OR P.O.Box 1749

Addis Ababa 90006 Nuernberg

Ethiopia Germany

4 These newsletters and a lot more blessings you are kindly

Invited to enjoy at our website: www.yetnbitkal.org4 Our column named ‘Leweru’ means ‘for the month’ in Amharic

and there we shall keep on including inspirational, quotations, funny

points ...etc. and expect great contributions from U. Your kind

participation please by sending pertinent materials to the column.

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