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	Our pastor, Hambisa Belina is a native of Oromia, in Ethiopia. He is the eldest of a large family of seven siblings. He was raised and confirmed in the Ethiopian Evangelical church Mekane Yesus, where he served in many capacities beginning in the youth group while in high school. Hambisa and his college friends started Christian Students Fellowship during college and he served as its secretary for three years. After college, he joined his home congregation and served in various capacities including as youth leader, choir member, elder and deputy chair of budget and finance committee of his synod. After coming to the US in 1998, he joined the Oromo congregation in Washington D.C. Among other things, he has served as the chair of the councils of two Oromo congregations in the Washington D.C. metro area. In 2005, he joined the Lutheran Theological Seminary (LTSG) to serve as an ordained minister of the church of Christ. In May 2009, he graduated from LTSG with Masters of Divinity degree. In addition to his divinity degree, Hambisa holds Bachelor’s degree in accounting and Master’s of science in information science. He has over twenty five years of work experience both in Africa and the US. Hambisa was called by the Delaware Maryland Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to serve as pastor and mission developer at Oasis of Grace. He was ordained by Bishop Theodore F. Schneider on April 10, 2010 at Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church in Washington DC. Hambisa and Lemane, his wife of 22 years, live in Silver Spring, Maryland with their college aged sons: Sollan (21) and Detti (17).
	Oasis of Grace ¨ 11155 Dolfield Blvd Suite 200 ¨ Owings Mills, MD 21117 ¨ Tel. 443-712-8128 ¨ E-mail: pastor@oasis-of-grace.org