Missionaries to Ethiopia
Adrian and Jennifer Fehl affiliated with CMF in November 1996 for the
Ethiopia Field Team. Their work focuses on the unreached Gumuz people.
Adrian graduated from West Point with a degree in general engineering,
was commissioned as an officer in the Army, and served three years in an Armored Cavalry
Regiment stationed in Germany. Looking for a deeper meaning to his life, Adrian sought and
received an honorable discharge from the Army to enter Emmanuel School of Religion,
Johnson City, Tennessee, to prepare for full-time ministry. He graduated with a Master of
Divinity in Christian doctrine, May 1996.
In high school, Jennifer was a leader in the Campus Life program and
graduated as valedictorian of her class. She attended Milligan College, in Tennessee,
receiving a bachelor's degree in psychology and office administration. After graduation,
she became the Assistant to the Director of Home Health at the Johnson City Medical
Center. During this time, Jennifer also worked as a friend/back-up parent for two foster
children. In July 1995, she transferred to the Wellness Center Department of the Medical
Center to be Office Coordinator. Adrian and Jennifer were married in June 1995.
Adrian became Associate Minister at Lone Oak Christian Church, Johnson
City, in 1993. At Lone Oak, Adrian and Jennifer's involvement has been with the youth
through Sunday school, Bible studies, and youth activities, as well as in adult Bible
study and other church ministries.
Summer 1996, Adrian and Jennifer participated in a REACH international
internship to Ethiopia. Their experience confirmed that God was calling them to the
Ethiopia mission work. The Fehls are now "on the field" in Yasow, Ethiopia, and
adjusting to the work and living conditions very well.
CMF missionaries reentered Ethiopia in 1992 under the leadership of
veteran missionaries Ray and Effie Giles. Work is primarily in Wollega Province among the
rural Oromo people. Former CMF mission property at Kiamu has been obtained to provide a
leadership training and conference center. The center equips and trains Ethiopian
Christian leaders. Two medical clinics have also been opened.
Alongside this mobilizing ministry to Oromo people is a ministry to an
unevangelized people, the Gumuz -- numbering about 170,00 -- are isolated from every form
of development; no road for vehicles reaches them. These people are related to the people
of Sudan but remain isolated because of the Nile to the west and the Blue Nile River to
the north. Along the Blue Nile are hundreds of hidden villages untouched by the Gospel. In
the southern part of their area, the small number of Gumuz Christians needs to be
challenged and trained as evangelists to be sent out among all of their people.
CMF Missionaries now live among the Gumuz at Yasow to train evangelists
and to encourage Christians in the churches that have already been planted. Service
projects such as infrastructure improvements and clinic construction and operation are
engaged to fill physical needs of the people. This secures our missionaries access to the
country so that evangelism can be continued, and Christ glorified.
Christian Missionary Fellowship exists to serve Jesus Christ and His Church in world evangelism.
P.O. Box 501020
Indianapolis, IN 46250-6020
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