Date: Jan. 2000
Greetings, dear friends and family near and far.
We greet you from Ethiopia! We smell and feel Ethiopia here since we arrived at Addis Ababa safely on the 30th of
Dec. 1999. It took 20hrs from New York to Addis via Frankfurt. We praise that we got through all the customs and got our all the boxes and
luggages without any losing. Jong kook's work permit was renewed as a church planter and we are waiting for getting a residence ID. At the moment
we are staying at the guest house of the Head Quarter of SIM Ethiopia until we find a house to settle in Addis. Daesun(Jason-Tony) and
Jeeyeon(Anna) have already started school from Jan. 3, Monday. They are
welcomed by old friends and teachers here. Daesun is doing super ! He joined Taekwondo team and basketball team for matching other schools
here. Jeeyeon had a little bit difficult to adjust to Ethiopia. She felt
home sick to Connecticut, U.S. and had bad cold at the first day of our
arrival, but now she is doing fine after she met her old friends waiting for her for a long time here. We met our fellow missionaries here
and found that many had left from Ethiopia because of insecurity in Ethiopia. War between Ethiopia and Eritrea is still going on, but it's not
serious in Addis at the moment. Please keep it in your prayers for peaceful resolution. Grace and I are searched for houses. After we
settle, we have new phone number, but here E-mail situation is the worst.
We are not sure when we can get our personal E-mail. The electricity of
Addis is going and coming and telephone, too. While we settle, please use the address of SIM Ethiopia.
The following is our current address.
P.O. Box 127, SIM Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Email:cushjkpark@hotmail.com
Tel: +251-1 552348(O) Fax: +251-1-511242(O) +251-1-711594(home)
We give all thanks for your prayers and concerns that we can come back to Ethiopia for God's work.
In Him,
Jong kook, Grace, Dae sun and Jee yeon