Rwanda ?! Kurdistan(Iraq) – Serbia … October ’19
Can’t Say Enough Good About … Kurdistan & Iraq Here … In Ari & Aram ! 8/’19
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 7/’19
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
SERBIA … our STT Trip Spring into Summer … June ’19
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
Kurdistan-Iraq … Yazidis … ’19
… 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
LEBANON & NORTHERN IRAQ … February – March 2019 to Kurds & Yazidis !
$ 2,150 of the $ 4,400 needed, has been given for this trip in February ’19. Please consider how you might help in the remaining balance of $ 2,250. Contribute via like here:
http://www.globalhopenetwork.org/us/about/staff/daniel-emig
Lebanon still struggles having almost 2 million Syrian refugees, within their borders, who fled the war in Syria to find refuge and safety. Some left their homes as long as 8 years ago and remain refugees to this day as they try to make a daily living to provide and care for their families.
We will serve refugees living north of Beirut. We will visit the GHNI clinic, meet with Syrian refugees, who live as best they can with multiple families in temporary housing and others living in trap houses and tent communities.
Northern Iraq Many Yazidi families still suffer from the affects of war with ISIS. Many people remain displaced even though the ISIS caliphate has been defeated. There is still a great amount of danger, preventing them from returning home because of ongoing conflictsbetween various militia and foreign military as well as much of the infrastructure and their homes are destroyed.
We will serve Yazidi families who had to flee when ISIS overran their communities.
With the Syrian and Yazidi families we will distribute food and other necessary items, have fun days with children and parents, teach lessons in Transformational Community Development, Leadership, Family Life, and overall encourage families living in uncertain hopelessness .
This trip is a wonderful opportunity to bring help and hope to people who have gone through tremendous suffering and loss.
TCD NOW !!! Join us in this only 2nd USA event … normally overseas only …
TCD this week!
This will be our 2nd Transformational Community Development (TCD) training in Monument Colorado, USA!
Register at the link here:
https://cathedralrockchurch.churchcenter.com/…/events/168376
TCD training will teach you an effective, low cost, relational way of bringing transformation that teaches impoverished communities to become self-sustaining hope-filled lives. You’ll also experience “live SKYPE” sessions with nationals doing TCD!
Please see the information below.
If you wish to sign-up go to registration link above.
If you have any questions please contact me
Michael Parks
407 230 6169
or
Daniel Emig – 719.440.0796
Quick drop-in visits(during lunch etc.) are always welcome, to get a taste of all we do in these countries. 
