Carl E. Hansen’s “Into Abyssinia” Presented a Story of Ministry in Pre-Revolutionary Ethiopia

Carl E. Hansen’s ministry memoir Into Abyssinia: The Odyssey of a Family was showcased by the self-publishing and book marketing company ReaderMagnet at the 2023 Frankfurt Book Fair, which took place at the Frankfurt Trade Fair grounds in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, last October 18-22, 2023.

ReadersMagnet aims to help authors increase their brand profile, reach their target readers, build their networks, and drive sales by exhibiting their works at national and international book events, such as the Frankfurt Book Fair. The company exhibited several titles as part of its aim to share the works of authors with the world. One of the authors under ReadersMagnet is Carl E. Hansen, whose book Into Abyssinia was checked by people at the event.

Into Abyssinia is an autobiographical book set against the backdrop of Ethiopia in the late 1960s to 1975. It is a story of adventure and adaptation as a novice missionary couple navigates the complixities of a different culture while simultaneously raising a family in the less-developed hinterlands.

Carl gives his account of the first eight years of his and his family’s living and serving in the pre-revolutionary feudal Ethiopia. This time period marked a dark time as people were experiencing drought and famine in the area. Ethiopia also teetered on the brink of an armed revolution, where men with guns challenged the established order.

The author’s account portrays the struggles and triumphs of a community committed to bringing spiritual transformation to a tradition-bound society grappling with the winds of change. Carl and his family’s missionary work began to bear fruit. Some people have accepted the seeds of the Christian gospel and let it flourish in the area.

Readers can get a copy of Into Abyssinia: The Odyssey of a Family on Westbow Press Bookstore, Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Get to know more about the author by visiting his website, www.carlehansen.org.

Into Abyssinia: The Odyssey of a Family
Author| Carl E. Hansen
Published Date| March 29, 2023
Publisher| Westbow Press
Genre| Memoir - Autobiography

Author’s Biography

Carl Edward Hansen was born and raised in rural Alberta and Ontario, Canada. He 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 with Vera Dorothy King in 1964. Together, they served as missionaries in eastern Africa for more than thirty-two years.

Carl served, first as a high school teacher at the Nazareth Bible Academy from 1967 to 1970 and then as director of a development project in Ethiopia from 1972 to 1975. Between 1975 and 1984, Carl served as a pastor in Alberta. Carl and Vera returned 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, Carl and Vera returned to Ethiopia to assist the Meserete Kristos Church in establishing its Meserete Kristos College, now Seminary. They retired to Harrisonburg, VA, in 2011.

Carl and Vera raised four daughters and have nine grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

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