June’s Joys …

Greetings …

Wheelchairs are now in-country!


It seems to always take an incredible amount of initiative, patience, time, work, diplomacy, special relationships, $$$, connections, transportation of several types, storage, taxes, storage fees (in customs receiving), and the like, to get wheelchairs and other handicap needs into any country. Multiply that into a country experiencing legal sanctions from the West, and you have a cocktail of walls to climb over.
We are so grateful for Joni&Friends, Frontier Partners International, WarmHeart-Lebanon, RefugeCities-Jordan, in all these coordinated efforts and provisions to get these items into earthquake-stricken and impoverished areas. Additionally, there were relationships outside these organizations, and a good number of non-profits and faith-based organizations, both within and without these countries, that had to work together to get this container in. June was a joyful time in how this 40′ container finally arrived there, with countless recipients of great need, glad and grateful to receive them. These and other organizations were key in their distribution, adjustments(fittings to particular needs), and further maintenance.


Key to all villages and communities we are helping to get established in Iraq/Kurdistan, Lebanon, and Armenia, is our focus on income and food sustainability. “Larry our seed guy” in New Mexico, whom ironically we have never met in person, and don’t even have a photo of, is constantly sending us hundreds of pounds of seeds to take over to these countries. He is constantly researching what crops will grow best in each country/weather, and even helps me teach via ZOOM to these places. Larry’s heart to go unnoticed, while giving so much, which is again key to our work in sustainable advancement in these countries, villages, and communities.



June has also brought us the greenest-wettest Colorado we’ve ever experienced, and the opportunity to get Nora’s gardens going. Bryan(our son) was key, with his “git-er-done” abilities, building Nora a sun shield for her sensitive vegetables and herbs. Concerts in the parks and great times with some of my key guy friendships have also been a breath of fresh air into our lives, especially after the coldest Colorado Winter we’ve ever had.