Into Abyssinia: The Odyssey of a Family
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In this autobiographical book, the author gives an informative and lively account of the first eight years of his and his family's living and serving in pre-revolutionary feudal Ethiopia. It is a story of adventure as a novice missionary couple learns and adapts to a vastly different culture while raising a family in the less developed hinterlands.
The events take place from 1967 to 1975, a pivotal time in Ethiopia’s history; a time marked by growing discontent with feudalism and the ancient imperial regime that supported it. It was a time of growing turmoil that, in the midst of drought and famine, spilled over into an armed revolution; a time when ignorant men with guns over-powered the best minds and forced a tradition-bound society to join in a bloody experiment with radical socialism.
It was a time when the slow and difficult years of missionary effort in planting the seeds of the Christian gospel began to sprout and take root and grow into what would become a mighty movement of transformation in that society.
Carl E. Hansen
The second son of Jens and Elizabeth Hansen, Carl Edward Hansen was born and raised in rural Alberta and Ontario, Canada; holds a BA degree (1965) from Eastern Mennonite College in Virginia and graduate degrees from Goshen Biblical Seminary (M.Div., 1971) in Indiana, and Fuller Theological Seminary (Th.M., 1985) in California. He was united in marriage to Vera Dorothy King in 1964. Together they served as missionaries in eastern Africa for more than thirty-two years. Carl served as high school teacher and then as director of a rural development project in Ethiopia from 1967 to 1975. Between 1975 and 1984, Carl served as pastor in Alberta, Canada. They moved back to Africa in 1985, giving direction to a rural community development project in western Kenya, then teaching at the Daystar University in Nairobi until 1995. In January 1996, they returned to Ethiopia to assist the Meserete Kristos Church in establishing its Meserete Kristos College, now Seminary. They retired to Harrisonburg, Virginia in 2011. Carl and Vera raised four daughters and are grandparents to nine grandchildren and great grandparents to six great grandchildren.
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