Flux points are many times, a phase of re-evaluation, whereby we recalibrate a needful ‘something’. Nora and I are in such a phase. And it has been a truly good one for us. We don’t sense any anxiety or deep fear as we move through these waters of transition. In fact, so far, we have discovered a genuine openness in both our hearts and the hearts of all involved in this change, including you.

We have had over twelve years of beautiful ministry in relationships and sustainability, in GHNI. We sense from them, a full measure of blessing as we pivot into GSA – Global Service Associates from GHNI. Everyone is desiring what is best for us! It means a lot! And so while we are open to a “volunteer” status with GHNI, we are doing a full swing into GSA, allowing us to continue expanding our lives, and the type of ministry we sense I am being led into, into other lives and organizations that need spiritual direction alongside our experiences in sustainable development. From GSA it allows us this needful forward organizational pivot-point of flexibility to expand spiritual development in others’ lives, while still fully able to retrieve all the good resources of vast experiences from our time with GHNI. Nora and I are grateful in how you have joined us in this inflection point.

So for now, as this transition continues to unfold, Nora and I are asking you to continue in this journey with us. Firstly, you can pray that we will be able to wrap up any loose ends with GHNI by the end of year ’23, while equally unfolding how we will continue to serve as “volunteers” and non-staff with them. Secondly, you can pray that we will continue to move in all the right directions in serving the people, leadership, and organizations we would like to partner with, via GSA. You have already seen a lot of this partnering, during my trips and labors in the Middle East.

Lastly, you can pray that we will be able to move all of our financial donations over to GSA as quickly and cleanly as possible. One path in helping us in this is for you to start your financial gifts to GSA as soon as possible. If you have any questions on how to do this, please feel free to contact us, via the contact information in our MailChimp updates and hardcopy letters. Otherwise, you can also leave a message via this WordPress site response link.

All future financial gifts are to be either mailed to:

Global Service Associates 
P.O. Box 20425
Boulder,   CO   80308-3425
or click on this link/QCR below:

There will be a lot more news ahead, especially as we wrap up 2023 and head into the new year of 2024. Nora and I express to you our deep gratitude in your love and commitment to us, especially in this new aim!

Dan & Nora

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.  

Grateful for you and your part in all these endeavors to lift up others … !!! Daniel & Nora

23 May ’21 was it … so it’s time to celebrate my 2-year anniversary of extended life on the planet Earth and with you, all love and grace and permission from Him, the Christ of all true LIFE and living!

Yesterday, in my Monday men’s group, I had the privilege of doing what we call a ‘man-moment’, where one of us gives a short 20-30 minute spiel of some portion of our life-journey. Mine ended up taking the full 90 minutes, as we journeyed through so many levels of the past two years, and so much restorative healing spiritually, physically, relationally, emotionally, and mentally. All the men had at least some touch-point of understanding brokenness and the beauty it can potentially bring, in our common Lord, and each other. I am so privileged to be among them, as they have provided key pivot points for healing, that other “professional” venues have not been able to. Over the past 8 years, our lives have become more intertwined, and whole, as we have learned to be heart-gut honest-transparent, and journey through so many issues together. Along with my weeping, there were a log of other wet eyes in the room of 25-30.

Here is a text/excerpt just received this morning from one of the men there yesterday:TM:

“Thanks again for sharing your story of God’s faithfulness to both you and Nora. The blessing transcends yesterday morning. Speaking of invitation(a word I’ve been using a lot lately) – it seems when one man shares a story of God coming to rescue them, the Holy Spirit goes about the room and plants seed thoughts of wonder in us. God is faithful – got that. God rescued Dan to a new life. Awesome. Wait…what about my circumstances…would He really do that for me? I know He can, but… So the Spirit invites us into the journey of God coming to my rescue – transforming me in my circumstances – which is the “be”(as opposed to ‘do’) you spoke about. The circumstances may or may not change but the man certainly does. Love that.”

Wow … what an example of so many gifts we share around that circle with each other each Monday!!!

Joyful while sometimes weeping in this awesome journey with them and each of you reading this …

Daniel J. Emig

This is a first for our Iraq/Kurdistan team to serve in the earthquake zone of Turkey. You may recall our Lebanon team has been to both Turkey and Syria numerous times already. We are so grateful for Ari and Aram, as they coordinate with local leaders, to help in these capacities. They have communicated that the priority for purchasing things is tents, food, clothes, shoes, and kitchen supplies like (pots, plates, spoons, knives, bottles of gas, carpets, blankets, and pillows. To support them in these endeavors, financially, please note “Earthquake Support” on any giving(s), and can be funneled via:

https://www.frontierpartners.org/donate-for-kurdistan-and-iraq