2 Samuel 22:47. The LORD lives! Praise be to my Rock! Exalted be God, the Rock, my Savior!
Emmanuel International was birthed out of the 1974 famine in Ethiopia. Founder George Middleton had recruited young people from across Canada to help in food relief. These young people were willing but ill-equipped to handle the devastation the drought was causing. George purposed to establish a training place to equip willing volunteers so that, in the future, they would be prepared. That training program developed into a faith-based sending agency, Emmanuel Relief and Rehabilitation International, or EI.
Partnering with local churches in serving their communities to address needs identified by the partner churches came out of George’s 25 years of missionary service in Aden, Ethiopia and Eritrea. Principles learned in those years shaped EI’s ethos.
