WAA'EE KEENYA

Harka Qottootti geggeessitoota waldoota naannoo sanaa wajjin hojjeta. Meeshaalee barsiisaa geggeessitoonni waldaa sagalee Waaqayyoo akka beekaniifi sagalee isaa warra kaan akka barsiisan gargaaruuf qophaa’an ni hojjenna. Yeroo danda’ametti, geggeessitoota waldaadhaaf leenjii bakka sanatti ni kennina-keessumaa geggeessitoota bakka leenjiin ti’ooloojii argachuun rakkisaa ta’etti. Hojiin keenya paastarootaa fi geggeessitootaaf leenjii macaafa qulqulluu kennuu bira darbee ni deema. Fedhiin qaamaa yeroo baay’ee fedhii ti’ooloojii wajjin deema. Akkasumas waldoota naannoo sanaa wajjin ta’uun namoota gargaarsa barbaadaniif kunuunsa qaamaa ni kennina.

Ibsa Amantii

Harki miseensota boordii Qottoo, hojjettoota, warra hiikkaa irratti hirmaatan, fi kanneen tajaajila kamiyyuu keessatti Harka Qottoo waliin imalan gammachuudhaan kanneen armaan gadii mirkaneessa:

Waaqayyo tokkichatti ni amanna, inni bara baraan qaama sadii, Abbaa, Ilmaa fi Hafuura Qulqulluu keessatti mul’ata.
Macaafni Qulqulluun sagalee Waaqayyoo hafuuraan barreeffame ta’uu isaa fi barreeffamoota harkaa isaa isa jalqabaa keessatti dogoggora kan hin qabne ta’uu isaa ni amanna. Dhimma amantii fi amala hundumaa irratti Macaafa Qulqulluu akka aangoo isa dhumaatti fudhanna.
Gooftaan Iyyasuus Kiristoos, ilma tokkicha Waaqayyoo, Hafuura Qulqulluu irraa ulfooftee, Dubroo Maariyaam irraa dhalatee, fannifame, du’e, awwaalamee, du’aa ka’ee, gara samiitti ol ba’ee, amma immoo mirga Waaqayyo abbaa taa’ee jira jennee amanna.
Yesuus Kiristoos Waaqa dhugaa fi nama dhugaa ta'uu isaa ni amanna.
Cubbuun Addaam namoota hundumaaf cubbuu fi du'a hafuuraa akka fide ni amanna.
Yesus Kiristoos jireenya mudaa hin qabne, yaada, dubbii fi gochaan fedha Waaqayyoo abbaa guutummaatti raawwachuu isaa ni amanna.
Yesus Kiristoos namoota gara Waaqayyootti deebisuuf aarsaa guutuu ta’ee dhiiga isaa akka dhangalaase ni amanna.
Kennaa jireenya bara baraa jireenya mudaa hin qabnee fi du'a araara Yesuus Kiristoos bitame fudhachuuf karaan jiru Yesus Gooftaa ta'uu isaa afaan keetiin himachuu fi Waaqayyo du'aa isa kaase garaa kee keessatti amanuu qofa ta'uu ni amanna.
Cuuphaan kiristaanaa sirna Gooftaa Yesuus hundeesse ta’uu ni amanna. Cuuphaan amantichi gara waldaa naannootti galuu isaa agarsiisa.
Irbaata Gooftaa sirna Gooftaa Yesuus hundeesse ta'uu ni amanna. Irbaata Gooftaa amantichi kakuu haaraa du’aa fi du’aa ka’uu Kiristoosiin hundeeffame itti fufee yaadachuu, fudhachuu fi hirmaachuu isaa agarsiisa.
Kiristaanonni yeroo danda’ametti waldaa naannoo tokkotti makamuu fi gammachuudhaan hirmaachuu qabu jennee amanna. Amantoonni, Caaffata Qulqullaa’oodhaaf abboomamuudhaan, geggeessitoota isaanii waldaa naannoo keessa jiraniif bitamuu qabu.
Kiristaanonni jireenya qulqullummaa, yaadaan fi gochaan qulqullummaa agarsiisuudhaan akka jiraatan waamaman jennee amanna.
Kiristaanonni humna hafuura qulqulluutiin jireenya Yesuus saba hundumaaf tajaajiluuf waamamuu isaanii ni amanna.
Du’aa ka’uu warra du’anii, gammachuu bara baraa amantichaa, adabbii bara baraa warra badetti ni amanna.
Dhiheenyatti dhufaatii Gooftaa keenya Iyyasuus Kiristoositti ni amanna.

Ibsa amantii armaan olii kanaan alatti miseensonni boordii fi hojjettoonni Hands to the Plow ibsa sadan armaan gadii ni mirkaneessu:

Ibsa Chikaagoo Dogoggora Dhabuu Ilaalchisee, icha Ibsa Danver Dhiirummaa fi Dubartii Macaafa Qulqulluu irratti kenne, fi kan Ibsa Naashville: Tumsa Saalqunnamtii Macaafa Qulqulluu.

Ergama Keenya

Ergamni keenya karaa salphaatti hubatamuu danda’uun dhugaawwan Waaqayyoo geggeessitoota waldaa of eeggannoodhaan barsiisuu fi warra rakkataniif kunuunsa qaamaa gochuudha.

Gareen Keenya

Meeshaalee kana barreessuu, fakkii kaasuu, hiikuu fi oomishuuf namoonni adda addaa hedduun hirmaatu. Miseensonni garee keenyaa hundi barbaachisummaa waldaa naannoo sanaa kan mirkaneessan yoo ta’u, ofii isaaniis qaama waldaa naannoo sanaa ti. Waldoota amantii hedduu waliin hojjenna. Gareen keenya waldaa kiristaanaa tokko waliin hidhata hin qabu. Namoonni Harka Qottoo waliin hojjetan hundinuu ibsa amantii keenya gammachuudhaan mirkaneessu.

Tom Kelby jedhamuun beekama

My name is Tom Kelby. I serve as president of Hands to the Plow Ministries. I am married to Sarah, my favorite person in the world. That’s saying a lot, because we have three great children and five amazing grandchildren. We live in the United States in northwest Wisconsin’s beautiful lake country. Our hobbies all seem to have something to do with things you’d imagine doing at a lake in the Northwoods. We love camping, campfires, water activities, cross country skiing, four- wheeling, hunting, and fishing (okay, those last two I might like a bit more than Sarah does).

We started Hands to the Plow in 1997. At that time, I worked as a copywriter in advertising. This is when I first met Mark Yaeger (Hands to the Plow’s creative director). Mark and I began developing materials for teaching and evangelism. We’re still doing this together today! One of my favorite things is when Mark and I are talking about how to present something in a clearer way and he says, “I have an idea!” You will see many of those ideas in our materials.

I eventually transitioned from advertising to pastoral ministry. For eight years, I pastored Cornerstone Christian Church in Spooner, Wisconsin, the church Sarah and I still joyfully attend. Now, I have the privilege of leading Table Fellowship, a small group of churches (Cornerstone is one of those churches). We love our church family and the churches we work with.

I met Jason DeRouchie (Hands to the Plow’s global trainer and content developer) in Hebrew class—he was my professor at University of Northwestern in St. Paul, Minnesota. Jason and I developed a great friendship. Our families grew close and vacationed together. Soon, Jason and I began hosting retreats for pastors and leaders in northwest Wisconsin. Jason also supervised my PhD dissertation at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri. I could not imagine a better doctoral father!

Mark Maloney (Hands to the Plow’s ministry manager) and I worked together in prison ministry for many years. Mark’s deep love of the Lord combined with a mind geared toward making complicated things happen makes him the perfect one to organize and lead our trips and to oversee much of our work with translations. We always knew, based on Mark’s engineering background and experience keeping a suburb in Mpls, MN running, that Mark had gifts and experience the rest of us needed! Once he retired, we asked him to join us as ministry manager.

It is our joy to work alongside pastors and leaders for the sake of Christ’s church. It is our prayer that the materials we produce will help you in your understanding of and obedience to our Savior.

Jason DeRouchie jedhamuun beekama

Hi! My name is Jason DeRouchie, and I serve as Research Professor of Old Testament and Biblical Theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, as global trainer and content developer at Hands to the Plow Ministries, and, most recently, as one of the pastors at Sovereign Joy Baptist Church in Kansas City, Missouri.

My passion is to exalt Christ through whole-Bible theology and to help train the next generation of church leaders here and abroad how to faithfully interpret and appropriate their Hebrew Old Testaments as Christian Scripture. My heart longs for the nations to know Christ, and I seek to mobilize men and women to study, practice, and teach God’s word faithfully both here and abroad.

I treasure my wife Teresa, to whom I have been married since 1994. The Lord has blessed us with a table full of children, three of whom came from Ethiopia, a land that I love. We also have two sons-in-law and three grandkids! As a family, we delight in academic and church ministry and are delighted to be a part of both Midwestern Seminary and Hands to the Plow Ministries.

Our previous years of service and local church involvement have helped us cherish the gospel and love the nations. I now have so many from other cultures whose names and stories I know and whom I love and long to see celebrating Christ in eternity.

As a family, we enjoy camping, hiking, canoeing, and moose-watching, and our favorite place to get away is the north shore of Lake Superior. Whenever possible, I love to return to Ethiopia to help the church train its leaders, care for the poor, and evangelize the lost, including the unreached. Along with leading teaching and service teams through Hands to the Plow, I also help develop resources for training those in under-developed areas.

Before coming to Kansas City, I served as Associate Professor and then Professor of Old Testament and Biblical Theology at Bethlehem College & Seminary (2009–2019), and prior to that I was Assistant Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at University of Northwestern––St. Paul (2005–2009). From 2005–2019 we were active members of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, MN, where I served as an adult Sunday School teacher and teaching elder. In the past, I also served as an associate pastor of Oak Park Baptist Church in Jeffersonville, IN (2001 2005), and as an instructor of biblical Hebrew and Greek at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and Gordon College (1997–2000). Whether operating as teacher, mentor, or writer, I seek to lead in worship of our glorious God and to mobilize men and women for greater service for the sake of Christ. I hope that the time you spend on this site will move you to exalt our risen and reigning Savior.

Maark Yaager jedhamtu

Hello, my name is Mark Yaeger and I serve as Creative Director for Hands to the Plow Ministries. I am married to my best friend, Kelley. And, aside from the incomparable gift of salvation, Kelley is the best thing in my life. Kelley and I have two sons, Luke and Jack and, by way of marriage to Luke, we now have a beautiful daughter named Taomi. Praise God - they are all walking with the Lord and growing in their faith. Kelley and I live in Minnesota, Unites States. Our youngest son lives in Arizona, United States and our oldest son and daughter-in-law live in England, UK.

Indaastirii beeksisa keessatti hojjechuu kanan jalqabe bara 1989 yeroon kolleejjii bahu - hanga har'aattis damee kana irratti hojjechaa jira. Jalqaba irratti Tom Kelby waliin wal baree pirojektoota gabaa bilisaa tokko tokko irratti hojjedheera. Michummaa fi obbolummaan keenya yeroo sanaa kaasee guddachaa dhufe. Waaqayyo nu lamaan pirojektii tajaajilaa tokko irratti akka tumsinuuf balbala erga nuuf bane utuu baay’ee hin turin, kunis jalqaba Tajaajila Harka Qottoo wajjin wal simu. Waggoota hedduu keessatti dandeettii fi dandeettii Waaqayyo naaf kenne hojiirra oolchuun meeshaalee ulfina isaaf itti fayyadaman akkan hojjedhu hayyamameef eebbifamee fi gad of deebiseera.

Dirqama koo Hands to the Plow waliin, ani DKY, dhaabbata gabaa Minneapolis, Minnesota keessatti argamu keessatti michuu fi geggeessaa kalaqaa ti. Michoota daldalaa Yesusiin jaallatan 3 qabaachuun koo garmalee eebbifameera - hundi isaanii ergaa wangeelaa tarkaanfachiisuuf tajaajila kiristaanaa tajaajiluu fi warra rakkatan gargaaruuf garaa qaban. Walta'iinsi DKY fi HTTP gidduu jiru ajaa'iba - yoo Waaqayyoo ta'e hanga Yesus deebi'utti ni jiraata.

Mark Maloney

Hi, my name is Mark Maloney, and I’m the Ministry Manager for Hands to the Plow. My wife Debbie and I have four grown children and two grandchildren. We live in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota, USA. We are avid gardeners, fruit growers, and beekeepers. We also enjoy fishing (year around!), kayaking, biking, and generally enjoying God’s glorious creation in our area.

I didn’t grow up in the church and lived a significant portion of my life in open rebellion with God. Through God’s amazing grace, my life was radically changed when I came to Christ in 2007. With my life mercifully “under new management,” I found myself intensely drawn to his Word and having great joy in sharing the Gospel. By 2009 I was participating in and eventually leading weekly Bible Studies for inmates at a medium-security correctional facility in Minnesota. This is where I learned about teaching materials and met leaders from Hands to the Plow Ministries. I officially came onboard five years ago and have since been helping to steer the Ministry.

Debbie and I together responded to God’s call for Kingdom work by jumping into global missions through our home church several years ago, and that has now grown to include overseas pastor and church leader training with Hands to the Plow Ministries. Discerning that God had a plan for the next stage of my life, I fully retired from my public service career in 2023 to be increasingly available for Kingdom building. Over the past ten years, we have developed international short-term missions and teaching experience in Haiti, Poland, Jordan, and Ethiopia. My role is to build and train short-term mission teams, handle logistics, and manage relationships with our international partners. Also, over the past two years, I have been led to gain a better understanding of the mechanics of language translation to get Hands to the Plow teaching materials and other resources into non-English speaking cultures. Thank you, Jesus, for this blessing and awesome privilege to “Go and make disciples of all nations”!

HIRMADHAA

Mee meeshaalee asitti argaman qoradhaa, itti fayyadamaa, maxxansaa. Akkasumas, kun naannoo keessaniif leenjii gaafachuu, seminaara barsiisuu qopheessuu, meeshaalee hiikuu ykn kennuu kan dabalatu yoo ta’e, karaa biraatiin hirmaachuu akka qorattan isin afeerra.

man of color reading a Bible and Hands to the Plow material

Qabeenya Keenya Qoradhu

Waldaan Iyyesuus Kiristoos lafa irra faca'ee afaan hedduu dubbatti. Meeshaaleen marsariitii kana irratti argaman bilisaan ni argamu. Mee isaan buufadhaa gargaarsa waldaatiif itti fayyadamaa.

a leadership training with men learning from another

Garee A Keessummeessuu

Paastaroonni fi geggeessitoonni naannoo keessan jiran leenjii Macaafa Qulqulluu gadi fageenya qabu irraa fayyadamoo ta’uu? Gargaarsa gochuu dandeessu. Waldaan Iyyesuus Kiristoos lafa irra faca'ee afaan hedduu dubbatti.

Caalaatti Baruuf

two men wearing backpacks walking to a building where Hands to the Plow training is

Har'a Arjooma

Kennaan keessan meeshaalee barreessuu, oomishuuf, hiikuu fi maxxansuuf nu dandeessisa. Akkasumas hoggantoota kutaalee addunyaa adda addaa jiraniif seminaara barsiisummaa akka qopheessinu nu dandeessisu.