Author: Daniel Emig

I and we seek to help the poorest of the poor become sustaining and human in the truest-fullest sense. Using location-based relationships and resources, and these are the catalyst of change discovered and embraced. Via our mentoring on, and access to, water, food, wellness (health), education, and finances(micro-enterprise); people are freed to live the lives they were meant to live.

EOY = End Of Year ’24 … from Dan and Nora …

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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!!!   

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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): 
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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 

Joyful Christmas Eve !!!

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So grateful this Christmas Eve, for Joseph and Saeed and family and team … as they give so much of their lives and resources to so many! They, in this short clip, represent so many others we love and are privileged to support and work alongside in increasing numbers of countries. Joyful Christmas Eve to you and yours!!! ❤️

Max Has Gone Ahead Of Us …

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Dearest Family and Friends, 11 December ’24

It’s with heavy hearts, our family writes to you today to let you know that Max has gone home to be with our Lord and Saviour.  It is the way he would have liked to have gone to be with the Lord.  He met with a neighbor for Bible Study in the morning and then went out to feed the chickens.  Mom noticed he was taking a long time to come back in and sent Heidi to check on him. We think Max’s homegoing was quick, probably due to a heart attack, and he seemed peaceful.  Our wonderful neighbors surrounded us and have been so protective and supportive through all this.  Mary Jo and Grace Ann drove up from Chicago and Harvey came quickly on a plane.  

Appreciate your prayers for all of us as there are many decisions ahead.  We’ll update you more in the next few days.  

Max was not only our Dad, but also a father to many of you, as well as friend and brother in the Lord.  We will miss him terribly and are so thankful to God for all that He gave to us and to his Lord.  

Lots of love from all of us….The Weighmink Family “Behold, I tell you a mystery:  We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed—in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall all be changed.”  I Cor. 15:51-52

My(Dan) update on FB …

I can still remember that evening after I pulled a long 12-14 shift at Ramstein, AB, Germany; Max walking in to meet me the stranger, eating my sandwich, minding my own business. Max the Navigator (ministry) was there to barge into my life, share the Gospel, his faith in Christ, and speak into my rebellion. My life was never to be the same. My trajectory to this day would never have been what it is. My heart was forever turned toward a Christ I’d never truly known before. I began to “walk with Him”. So strong was the experience, that when I exited the Air Force, I ended up back in Germany as a civilian, under the mentorship of Max and another good friend, Chip Swain; for the next two years. He influenced so many like myself. Not perfect, yet full of faith and walk that mattered. Who’s your “Max”?! Max … I’ll see ya on the other side … you who have gone ahead of us … 😀♥ … but for now, I’m gonna sit and have a cup of coffee in your honor … as you did love Scripture and your black coffee …
“Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith.” Hebrews 13:7

Oh So Grateful In This Thanksgiving Season ’24 !

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Dearest friend … 

On so many levels and areas of life, Nora and I are giving thanks!  We celebrated a great Thanksgiving, and cherish our times together as a family and with friends.  We are hoping and trusting you also share quality relationships this season of focus on gratefulness.  

In this update, we are especially thankful for the translations and publishing work we support.  Because of all the excellent relationships that have developed over the past five years, a number of people have actually met and gotten to know some of our partners when they were here for a visit to the USA.  Much of their financial backing, especially in the translation and publishing work, has pivoted out of their time here.  A number of years ago, again via relationships, friendships opened up a door with an organization and its umbrella affiliate, in TUMI and World Impact.  You can see their healthy history of ministry at:   https://www.worldimpact.org/blog/the-urban-ministry-institute/
Amazingly, as we connected to a local Colorado friend and his church congregation, the entire focus of translations, publications, and means to get all this to countries outside the USA, literally took on a life of its own and has grown exponentially since then!  And while it’s not our usual way to so openly acknowledge those who support this expansive work, we do want to take this time to give a special thanks, to those who have so lovingly taken on this expansion and built such a solid relationship of trust with so many internationally.  

Wrapping up, (though we could share so much more); we had a great visit with Rami, as he was passing through Colorado on his way home.  Rami, and his work are the latest to join our team as partners, as we continue to expand.  Please consider, as we have yet another international couple who are contemplating this type of partnership.  
 
Nora and I give thanks to you!  It is indeed already the tail end of November ’24; so we once again acknowledge how our lives are so fleeting. 

It is also that time of year when we seek additional financial support that takes us through and into the next year of ’25.  30-35% of our annual financial backing comes in between now and the end of December.  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.   

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Dan and Nora’s personal GSA giving site, for online gifts, please CLICK below on the link: 
https://www.globalassociates.org/members/daniel-emig
 
Donations mailing address
noted on check: “for Daniel Emig”        
Global Service Associates
P.O. Box 20425 
Boulder,  CO
80308-3425  
Serving in sustainable development, mentoring and spiritual
co-journeying with others internationally and domestically …