Yehizbalem Sirgawie

Living in:  Awassa

Marital status: Married (to Kassahun Nigatu)

Children: Feben (15), Lydia (14), Paulos (12)

Salvation experience: Yehizbalem was born the 2nd oldest child in a very conservative Orthodox family. When she started attending nursing school, she began going to a Christian student fellowship and eventually accepted Jesus Christ as her Savior and Lord in 1982.  After receiving Christ, she started to witness, pray, sing in the choir, and lead Bible studies.

Ministry experience / Present ministry: Worked for 17 years as a nurse until 2001, then joined full-time staff with Campus Crusade along with her husband focusing on ministry to executives and professionals.  Also does evangelism and discipleship in her church and mobilizes the women for evangelism outside the church.

Vision for the future: Wants to see a spiritual movement among executives and professionals, that they would be mobilized to reach the unreached.

Prayer requests:

• That God would give her grace to do ministry fruitfully; to have opportunities to reach others.
• That God would provide support, specifically for a car (so that they can travel for ministry)
• That God would heal her spinal disk problem (she has had treatment, but is still in pain all the time)