Hempfield NOVEMBER 26, 2025
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VOL XLI • NO 34
Meal To Support Efforts in Ethiopia
BY GEORGE DEIBEL
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he Siloam Ethiopia mission needs the community’s help in order to keep changing lives in the East African country. The mission will serve Ethiopian food for a fundraiser that will be held Saturday, Dec. 6, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Word of Life Evangelical Church, 175 Church St., Landisville. Visitors will pick up their meal at the curb. People may call 717-874-8510 to reserve a meal, but a reservation is not required. The menu will feature injera, which is Ethiopian bread, with options of Ethiopian dishes including doro wat (chicken dish), misir wat (split lentils), atakilt wat (vegetables), and non-spicy split yellow peas. “People should come to this event to help others, to help the
poor,” said Demeke Getahun, who is the pastor of Word of Life Evangelical Church. “We are a mission that’s helping the poor people medically and also to save the children from the street. We are supporting the widows that don’t have anything, so we gave them money every month for their groceries. And also, we support the school in the area. The mothers and fathers don’t have enough to buy school supplies. We help with that also.” Siloam Ethiopia sponsors eight girls in Ethiopia, split into two houses. The mission is especially important to Getahun, who is from Ethiopia. “We know how they live there, and we know how people are suffering in different ways,” he said. “We cannot just sit back. We want to do something for them. God blessed See Siloam Ethiopia pg 6
Demeke Getahun
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Scouts Collect Food for Families in Need
Fair Seeks To Redefine Nature of Giving BY JEFF FALK
Boy Scouts of America, encouraging Scouts to give back by fighting hunger within their own communities. The Hempfield Scouts spent the first weekend of November distributing collection bags and returned a week later to gather
Presents of presence. Judicious spending. Offerings of experiences and services. Well-thought-out, alternative gifts. Hope is a wonderful gift to both give and receive. “Your money is your vote for the kind of world you want to live in,” said Jenn Knepper, the
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See Fair pg 4
Local Scouts recently collected 6,500 pounds of food to help families in need in the community.
In early November, Scouts from Boy Scout Troop 267, Cub Scout Pack 37, and Troop 64 joined forces for the annual Scouting for Food campaign, an effort that unites local youths in service to their neighbors. This year’s drive collected 6,500
pounds of nonperishable food from the Hempfield community, all of which was donated to the food pantry at Zion Lutheran Church in Landisville. Scouting for Food is a nationwide initiative sponsored by the
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