Can’t say enough good in our time hosting Ari and Aram here in Colorado for two weeks!

With their foci here on:
* developing relationships
*Yazidi people group in Kurdistan as the primary means of permitted being/doing there
* education connections and needs in Kurdistan
* diplomatic relationships deepened focus of freedoms
* relating with and connecting other organizations working in Kurdistan
* financial donor development communications
* their plans moving forward with us, pivotal
* fun !  🙂 … fishing(trout) … baseball … Giordano’s Pizza … self-grilled hamburgers !  “-)
* getting to know our personal families … they loved Nora(my wife) !   🙂
* and … on and on this list could easily go … !

We are grateful to all who contributed financially to their time here.  They were able to take home over $1K for their work and life among Yazidi and in refugees development TCD.   Stories upon stories surfaced, as exampled in:
* constant-constant political and social turmoil issues affecting lives continually
 

Thank you … thank you … thank you, for allowing these men and their time with us and so many others here in the area !!!

Kurdistan & Iraq Are Coming To Colorado … in Ari & Aram !

We are always grateful for our friends and colleagues in countries we vest in.  It is an added special privilege when we can host these leaders, allowing those in the USA to better understand and build relationships with them.  Now, in these next two weeks of August, we have with us here in Colorado, Ari and Aram.  Our schedule together so far looks like:

Saturday, August 03, 2019

6:00 PM

8:00 PM

Rocky Mtn. Calvary Church

Q & A with Mike, Dan Johnson, Ari & Aram

Sunday, August 04, 2019

9:00 & 11:00 AM

Rocky Mtn. Calvary Church

Q. & A.

Sunday, August 04, 2019

6:30 PM

8:00 PM

Rocky Mtn. Calvary Church

O.I.F. – Operation Iraqi Freedom – Kingdom/Faith Focus

Monday, August 05, 2019

6:00 PM

8:00 PM

PPB – Pikes Peak Brewery

OPEN Public OIF  Operation Iraqi Freedom event

Tuesday, August 06, 2019

AM

PM

Posner Center – Denver

GHNI – Global Hope Network International

Tuesday, August 06, 2019

5:00 PM

Emig’s

Host – Dan & Nora Emig –

Wednesday, August 07, 2019	11:30 AM			Lunch … EFCA & others (OPEN to all )
Wednesday, August 07, 2019	3:00 PM	?	PPB	Save The Persecuted  – DeDe Laugessen – (CLOSED EVENT)
Wednesday, August 07, 2019	7:00 PM	9:00 PM	Limbach Park – Monument	Concert … open air …

Thursday, August 08, 2019	7:00 am	8:30 AM	Wesley Owens Coffee	Cathedral Rock – Pastors Meeting E. Free …(CLOSED EVENT)
Thursday, August 08, 2019	AM	PM	BEE World	getting to know each other …
Thursday, August 08, 2019	PM	PM	Lunch	BEE World time over meal

Friday, August 09, 2019

AM

PM

Pikes Peak – & Lunch +++

Manitou Springs & Pikes Peak

Saturday, August 10, 2019

6:00 PM

9:00 PM

Calvary Fellowship

Monument … 2nd Street, Monument, CO

Sunday, August 11, 2019	9:00 AM		CRC	Church …
Sunday, August 11, 2019	6:30 PM		YMCA	Cathedral Rock Church Sponsor – PUBLIC – Global Impact Team

Monday, August 12, 2019	AM	PM		EMI – Lunch – John Dallmann president of EMI.
Monday, August 12, 2019	PM	PM-late		Cathedral Rock Church Board

Tuesday, August 13, 2019

AM

B. Brothers

Dudley Brown, Dean Cernek, Mike, Dan, John, Steve, Tim … (CLOSED EVENT)

Wednesday, August 14, 2019

All Day

All Day

Denver

CRC – all-day event … Rockies Game

Thursday, August 15, 2019	10:00 AM		Emig’s –  Monument	De-brief … (CLOSED)
Thursday, August 15, 2019	early PM	late PM	Host Family	CRC – Global Impact Team – Dinner

If you are in the area, please contact me for details on events added and attendance.  Only a few events are closed/private.  As I would love to have you attend these and other events with our team from Iraq/Kurdistan.

Daniel & Nora

you can text/call me anytime (yes, even while traveling or home) at:   719.440.0796

Friend …

close on the heals of my IRAQ/LEBANON trip, was my next one to SERBIA.  We are so grateful to those who have capacity and choose to sponsor a village for an entire year or more.  Such is one of the members and initiators of this STT-Short Term Team to Djorgovaka Mahala Village, our Roma-gypsy village near Lebane, Serbia.

Assessing, teachings focused on entrepreneurship and family relationships, were the aim.  We are grateful to see the momentum building, as Snezana leads this and other Roma/gypsy villages out of every form of poverty.

My time with Snezana(far left in the below 3-some photo) and the translator were especially good, as I wanted to see better how she was doing personally, after the death of her husband(Slave), two years ago.  The gracious grace in healing and moving her forward, allows her to vest so much of her life in these Roma. 

Technology can assist greatly, as the below photo demonstrates.  We were able to SKYPE in a live-session to this group, from Kolkata, India, where Sushil Marandi was able to guide the group through some TCD issues relevant to any village.

Summer travel plans are so far limited.  Nora and I were pursuing our best to see you in Georgia and the S. East USA.  Due to her desperately needing to rest, after her first year as a para at our local elementary school, her overall health issues, and other needs(text or call for details), we regret that it’s looking like that trip cannot happen this year.  If things change, we will surely let you know ASAP.  Thanks for your understanding!  🙂

Daniel and Nora Emig

… every face we encountered in Kurdistan-IRAQ, with the Yazidi people, carried a story of trauma … yet hope, that one day, they could return home from the camps of tents and temporary locations they live in.
This trip was rich in helping, coming alongside, and in wide variety of experiences, all new to me, being my first time in the Middle East.

Brief:

*   serving Yazidis displaced by years of conflict, by providing essential food supplies

*   TCD-Transformational Community Development training, for development and their long-term ability to provide for their families

*   Initial relational connections with those in Kurdistan diplomatic leadership

*   warmth via diesel fuel for their heaters in locations without any heat

*   commitments to return and expand our TCD approach to development and sustainability

*   commitments and purchases from local entrepreneurs (soap, in this case), who empower these local communities in vision and new ideas for sustainability

*   local resources purchased and utilized for the distribution to Yazidis … you would be amazed at how a few thousand dollars of food goods, goes a  very long way in relating to local vendors (always our policy when possible)

I cannot thank you enough for all who gave to this trip!

Daniel