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Siloam Ethiopia slates fundraiser Passing around postcards iloam Ethiopia will host a fundraiser meal at Ethiopian Evangelical Church, 175 Church St., Landisville, on Saturday, March 11, from noon to 4:30 p.m. Traditional Ethiopian meals will be available to purchase for curbside pick up, and proceeds from the event will benefit the nonprofit organization’s humanitarian efforts in Harar, Ethiopia. Each meal will offer a choice of three Ethiopian dishes: doro wat, a spicy chicken stew; misir wat, containing spiced red lentils; atakilt wat, a cabbage and potato stew; and kik alicha, a stew with
“We wanted to spend time bonding with the kids and letting them know that they’re cared for.” The organization operates a free medical clinic for those in the city who are homeless or in need of treatment. Ketema was accompanied by Kari Oftedal, Jason Craig,
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split peas. Injera, a type of Ethiopian flatbread, will be served with each dish. Siloam Ethiopia’s founder, Wegayhu Ketema, recently returned from a five-week mission trip to Harar.
Kari Oftedal treats a patient in Siloam Ethiopia’s free medical clinic in Harar.
Faith Higley and Patrick Engle of Community Fellowship Church in Lancaster. Community Fellowship Church has been financially supporting Siloam Ethiopia’s projects and trips to Harar for the last three years. Oftedal, who is a doctor at Lancaster General Health, saw 35 to 40 patients each day at the free clinic. “She was extraordinary with her compassion and her care,” Ketema said. Siloam Ethiopia also partnered with Vision Care Ethiopia, a ministry based in Landisville that seeks to meet the optical needs of those in Ethiopia. Ketema and the other volunteers sorted, cleaned and distributed 150 pairs of glasses to residents of Harar during their trip. During the trip, the volunteers in the group also spent time engaging with a girls’ orphanage in Harar. Higley assisted with organizing the storage room and its contents and taught the girls at the orphanage how to fashion washable sanitary pads, as many of the girls often cannot afford disposable ones. Engle helped to construct shelves for the storage room, and each member of the team spent time engaging with the kids at the orphanage. “We wanted to spend time bonding with the kids and letting them know that they’re cared for,” Ketema said. “Every morning we had breakfast with them and take them out of the orphanage for a little while.” Ketema arrived in Harar ahead of the other volunteers to prepare for the various projects that they would be working on. This is the first time that Ketema has been joined by a team of volunteers to assist with the clinic and orphanage, and the rest of the team spent a total of 10 days in Harar. To reserve a meal for the fundraiser, call 717-669-0930. For more information on Siloam Ethiopia, visit https://siloamethio.netlify.app/.
boats to hometowns. For its meeting in January, the club had memOn the third Monday of each bers share postcards relating to month, the Lancaster County their favorite holidays. On Feb. 20, Postcard Club meets at the Farm & the topic of the meeting was carHome Center, 1383 Arcadia Road, toons and humor, and attendees Lancaster. During the meetings, participated in a member’s market which are open to the public, mem- to buy and sell postcards. Jere Greider of Mountville has bers gather to discuss postcards on a wide variety of topics. Each meet- been a member of the postcard club ing features a specific theme and for over 20 years, first becoming includes a talk from a guest speaker interested in them while adding to his collection of Coca-Cola memorawho focuses on that theme. In January, the club creates a bilia. After Greider found a Cocaschedule of which themes will be Cola postcard, he began to shift his incorporated throughout the year, focus to collecting postcards from and the topic of the club’s meetings around Lancaster County. Greider is now a postcard dealer can be anything from railroads to and participates in several yearly shows where postcard enthusiasts come together to buy and sell items for their collections. During the shows, around 25 postcard dealers present boxes of cards that are organized by topic. A buyer will often look for postcards from specific locations, such as his or her hometown or alma mater. Before the advent of different technologies in the 19th century, postcards Lancaster County Postcard Club members peruse different postcards were a way for travelers to BY ADRIAN ESCHENWALD
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Not easily broken Dayspring Plans 13th Remember America Event BY ANN MEAD ASH
Dayspring Christian Academy’s Remember America Speaker Series team makes decisions based in prayer and with reverence to Scripture. The choice of three speakers for this year’s event is rooted in Ecclesiastes 4:12, which reads in part, “A three-ply cord is not easily broken.” “Our team started thinking about how our school is in partnership with parents and churches in educating our children,” said Lisa Becker, events manager with Dayspring, which is located in Mountville. That
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