Meet Doctor Behailu Abebe

Behailu Abebe and his wife Alum came from aristocratic families in Ethiopia. Behailu, like his father, a State Governor, had a promising governmental career before him. At the expense of family alienation, seeming loss of his future bride and career possibilities he chose to become a simple Christian and then gospel preacher. Alum, with some of the same losses, eventually joined him in Christ. They have raised seventeen children, four of their own and thirteen needy ones. They suffered through two decades of hard, communist rule, fleeing to Kenya for a while.
Behailu supervised relief missions during two national famines, saving hundreds of thousands of lives. He has supervised the work of three deaf schools with a 1998 attendance of 800 students and the evangelistic work throughout the nation. He is serving as the Dean of the branch school in Ethiopia, located on three campuses. He has been honored with the Doctors Degree by two Christian universities.