Alayu Dubale and his wife Yegile Mengistie became the Blair Foundation missionaries led by Pastor Charles E Blair in 1996. In 2002, the president of the Benishangul-Gumuz Region of Ethiopia contacted the Blair Foundation, led by Charles Blair, founder, and Alayu Dubale, the Ethiopian Call Operations Director to help bring transformation to his region. The only Christian in his administration, the president believed the gospel was the hope of his region and that through trained leaders and energized local churches (biblical life-giving faith communities), his region could be transformed spiritually, socially, and economically.
A few years into the project of Ethiopian Call, Charles Blair passed away and Alayu Dubale continued the work with partners around the world until today. Since those early years Ethiopian Call has grown to partner with 72 Christian denominations and organizations to launch efforts in Ethiopia, South Sudan and Uganda training and empowering a network of over 6,000 in-country leaders serving in underserved, unreached communities. Today, over 6 million have heard about the unconditional love of God, with over 1.2 million followers—and those numbers are growing since 1996. The communities we serve typically practice Islam and/or traditional religions with harmful cultural practices such as female mutilation, early marriage, nutritional taboos, magic, or the spread of hatred, tribalism and extremism. The sharing of God’s transforming love takes place person-by-person, village-by-village through equipped transformational community leaders who build thriving faith communities.
Following the moving of Alayu, his wife Yegile and their 5 kids to United states Global Call is established in 2015 and using holistic approach to train the indigenous leaders to put the gospel into practice in such a way that all of life in the village will be transformed to betterment. Our world is complex, and truly effective solutions require a holistic approach. Our powerful thinking of planting life-giving faith communities and providing holistic transformation tools through compassion and care has been so effective we are invited into new areas by church denominations and local governments. Our approach to community development and empowerment includes widow programs, orphans support, digging water wells, building schools, equipping leaders, planting churches, distributing Bibles and sport ministries.
His wife Yegile has been working with Compassion International Ethiopia and planted churches in unreached villages of Ethiopia. She is a nurse as well as an accountant and has a huge burden for widows and orphans. Yegile has received accounting and nursing degrees.
Alayu has received BTH from Evangelical Theological College, Ethiopia and MBA in International Business from Greenwich University, London. These experiences gave them a deep appreciation for how nonprofits seek to improve the quality of life for this earth and for eternity.