Emmanuel International

Interns Welcome!!  April 3, 2025

Psalm139:8-10   "If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.  If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast."

From Julia Cornish Trotter: How has your time with EI impacted or influenced your life?
Wow.  That's a big question.  My internship was over 20 years ago now, and much has happened since.  But I can truly say that the memories and lessons I learned from my internship in Malawi have remained close to my heart.  The cross-cultural and ministry experience I gained during my time with EI were foundational in preparing me for later work with Africa Inland Mission and the Canadian Christian Relief and Development Association (now Kentro).  And I built relationships that remain to this day.  

Is there a particular memory you would like to share? I remember the dear lady, Mai Maria, who did house-keeping for me and the two other Canadian girls I was living with.  On my request, she taught me how to pluck and prepare a freshly-killed chicken.  After the fun of this novel experience, I was duly humbled when she asked if I was going to use the feet and neck of the
bird, which I had not planned to do.  Learning that, she asked if she might take them home to make soup for her grandchildren.  Since then, I have made a habit of making chicken stock from every leftover carcass when I'm cooking chicken, desiring not to waste any of the goodness others might relish while I take luxury for granted.

Julia worked in Malawi from 2003-2004 as a
CIDA Intern, doing Youth/HIVAIDS work.

Where it all started

September 12, 2024

The Letters of Patent declaring Emmanuel Relief and Rehabilitation International to be a recognized charitable organization is dated September 11, 1975.  September 12, 2024 begins our 50th year, our Jubilee year!  In the Bible, every 50th year was a reset year, a year of rest. The Jubilee was a year of acknowledging Sovereign God, His grace, His provision, His heart for His people.  

With Samuel of old, on the 12th of September 2024, join us in raising our Ebenezer; for truly, ‘hitherto has the LORD helped us.” 

 I Samuel 7:12:  “Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying, “Thus far has the LORD helped us.”