an Emig family ‘NOW’ …     Each Christmas Season seems to get a wee bit better, in that we continue to slow down more and qualify our time with family and friends. Western culture can sometimes lean contrary to these aims. I can honestly say this Christmas was a gracious time together, with each of us taking those special times and spaces and places to make it so.   Yesterday morning in the men’s group I facilitated; a first aim was to create space and place for them to enter into personally, look back, and connect with 2024, with transparency in how it had more truly gone; and to more palpably enter into each other’s story of the year. We have become an amazing group of men unafraid to love and do deep dives into each other’s journeys. Equally, in doing so (or might I say BEING so), it intrinsically opens up their lives, and becomes an overflow outside the group into our dark and fragmented world of un-Believers and those in need of the Gospel that restores and heals, light. What a beautiful gift of life I am gifted to live into! Let me know if you’d like a copy of the outline we walked through. 🙂  As of last week, the Lord has brought on an 8th couple and organization to partner under FPI. Mike Parks and I have worked alongside Wubshet and Habiba for many years now, and their solid work in Kenya is one we greatly admire, especially as we love this couple so much! We look forward to better communicating to you their vision and expansive work, in this coming year.           This wrap-up of December ’24 has been filled with so much good, especially via the lives we support in countries we labor together in. From protecting Joseph and Lydia Milan and family and co-workers, to shoes and motorcycles distributed, to clothing for children, to sewing machine training and distributions in parts of the world …. we have all partaken (you and us) of this marvelous expansion of God’s love to so many others.  As you and I glance into that rearview mirror and witness 2024 retreating into an ever-smaller image, let us glean well from that recent past, never negating all GOD would have us learn, and yet even moreso allow ourselves to gaze strongly and in all measure of trust and love in our LORD, into a future He desires us to be embedded in with all our hearts. Proverbs 3:5 & 6 ESV “Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make straight your paths.” This is also a time of 11th-hour trust for us to step out in faith and let you know of our resource needs as we all enter bravely 2025. We have received several beautiful gifts so far in December. Yet we also need to relate to you the need for almost $ 15,000 more in order for us to maintain personal financial support well into ’25. We have a few hours left in the year for any tax-benefited gifts you might be praying over. 30-35% of our annual financial backing comes in between now and 11:59 pm tonight. If your heart moves to help in this manner, simply click on the DONATION tab/link below or send funds via snail mail at the address below, postmarked today as you might need. Dan, Nora and I thank you deeply for being alongside us in 2024!!!  &  Daniel and Nora Our personal GSA giving site, for online gifts, please CLICK below on the link or scan QRC below (way down at the bottom): https://www.globalassociates.org/members/daniel-emig noted on check: “for Daniel Emig” Global Service Associates P.O. Box 20425 Boulder, CO 80308-3425 You are essential and we give you thanks! Your friendship and prayer matter immeasurably. You are in all we are and do. Serving in sustainable development, mentoring and spiritual co-journeying with others internationally and domestically …      I work to:– help assess villages and refugee camps – develop people & resources – teach & further sustainable development – train leadership – co-journey with others in spiritual direction for their lives  |
Daniel & Nora Emig's Journeys 