It Is Time For Re-Launch !!! Lebanon & Iraq in about 2 weeks !!! Emigs’ … update
With such a lull in our travels of late, and losing measurable amount of our financial base of support due to economic conditions related to Covid-19 … will you please consider a special gift for this trip and our continued need for raising our monthly base of support? Thank you immensely ! Basic 2-country(we will also be in Iraq) travel, food, housing costs per trip: Pertaining to Lebanon AND Iraq/Kurdistan … medical, TCD, refugee assistance, urgent care needs, food distributions, secondary(regular) medical needs unrelated and/or related to Lebanon’s crisis, Entrepreneur Leadership Development moving forward … $ 21,000 for Lebanon Emig family’s “regular” support … We understand these are large number for anyone’s budget, especially in these times. Please realize a few things: Please always feel free to call me for current balances of need and gifts received to date, especially as we get close to our 15 September “planned”(flexible) hoped-for departure date. Know how grateful we are for you considering and praying through all this ! Giving link is below. Knowing this is already a long update, we’re trying to make the following “family” update succinct. Dan and Nora
Daniel & Nora
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Covid-19 and a bit of “domestic” conversation – Emigs – 30 May ’20
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Ironically, Nora and I have found ourselves extremely busy, albeit, working from very local places, mainly home. Yet, there have also been some needful rest-points, where there’s finally time to stop and contemplate. Is THAT activity really a priority? Is THAT relationship really healthy for me, in the everyone’s best interest? How can some of these isolation times be a measured “reset” times as well? When things pick back up in full blown external activities, will I(you) be able to enter it all a changed person, a better person? I think “yes” to you and me in these things !
Jonathan graduated from CSU with two degrees, physics and engineering. He’s currently en route (via Arizona), to California, where he plans to be near his girlfriend, Emily, who just completed her first year in medical school.
Eliana graduated from Lewis Palmer High School, and is planning to “remotely walk” in her graduation ceremony. During Covid-19, she has worked hard at DoorDash and Qdoba.
Bryan, in the weeks of many experiencing layoffs, landed a full-time position as a pharmacy tech., in Breckenridge, CO. He also continues his pursuits of media/video/photography business, as a priority.
Nora, once again, shined, as she adapted to remote teaching, even with her special needs children. Not easy. Yet her gentle engaging warmth of personality still managed to capture her audience of students and teachers alike.
Dan … ZOOM calls abundant(some 1-3 hours each), SKYPE calls a many, WhatsApp calls and texts aplenty, e-Mails a plethora, trainings, counseling, mentoring, planning, strategizing, … it’s really been a great time to get a lot of internal organization things accomplished, executed, and furthered. I’m already sensing that re-launch post-Covid will be healthier and better than ever! Our teams on the ground are hard-pressed, yet very encouraged !
Iraq/Kurdistan & Lebanon follow-up … April ’20
Iraq/Kurdistan & Lebanon follow-up … April ’20
Thanks for your patience in this trip update.
Sulaymaniyah and Erbil area refugee camps continue to be highest on our priorities for relief and development. All work is on-going, whether we are there or not.
Distributions of food and essentials happened in the Syrian refugee camps in the Beqaa Valley of Lebanon, as well as among the Yazidi in Iraq/Kurdistan. We cannot say enough positives of our associates and leadership in each of these regions, as they do so much ground-work preparations for our time there, as well as post-trip development of TCD-Transformational Community Development.
Please pray our teams can get back into the camps, post-Covid-19, to continue all these important distributions, training, and mentoring work so essential to any long-term successes in these types of environments.
Mike and I are very much hoping to get back, as soon as the window opens again for travel to the region. An important consideration is that we had planned to have an Entrepreneur Leadership Training team there in May. Covid-19 has set many things back. We press ahead.
Many-many ZOOM (and ZOOM-type) calls have happened in the past 6 weeks, and continues to be our mainstay for relating, communicating, trainings, and plannings.
Story …
(not her real name) had taken a tumble a few weeks before our arrival in Lebanon(Beqaa Valley). While there, we were able to get her injured arm X-rayed, and she is now in therapy and progressing well. Many variations of these types of stories happen on each trip, and we are grateful to be available to help those in our current journey.
Story … Kalar, Iraq/Kurdistan was not part of our original plans for this trip. We got word that this was a special town, with special needs that we might possibly address. One thing led to another, and we ended up meeting the wonderful mayor there, and discussing preliminary plans to bring in a medical team. These kind of unplanned side-trips happen on each trip, allowing us the opportunity to move ahead in some form of assistance. If you or others you know would like to be a part of a medical team going there, please contact me immediately.
Bardarash Refugee Camp, near Erbil, Iraq/Kurdistan, was a special focus on this trip, as it allowed us to assess and interview several in the camp, prepping our future times there for helping.
If your heart moves you, we are much intent on priming the pump financially for our next trip into the region. Donations gifts can be made at the link below. Grateful we are, for your considerations in this !!!
https://www.globalhopenetwork.org/about/staff/daniel-emig
For other means to donate directly to a given project, please contact me.
Thanks immensely … ! Daniel
IRAQ/Kurdistan … 1 March 2020
Dear one …
IRAQ/Kurdistan now … Erbil, Kalar, and Sulaymaniah …
Each person and family has a story. Severe loss and trauma escapes none of their personal histories or lives. You and I are on journey with these precious ones.
Sometimes it all seems like a drop in the bucket … $6K spent on food here … $2.2K spent on heating fuel there … $1.2K spent on a flood prevention drainage pipe over there … $150 given for a severe case of asthma in another place … $150 given for X-rays for a fallen damaged elbow of an 8 year old girl … $200 given for location permanence costs … it can never end.
Yet none of this life we live is really about funds.
Relationships, yes.
Some relationships are ever so brief, only a half-hour interview, at times leaving one with a type of vacuum of heart … what just happened back there?(.) Another has been built over several years now, ever deepening in each of our times together. Most are somewhere in-between.
We are working with such great teams over here. They know how to love … a lot longer and deeper and better than we do in these contexts. We are so grateful they are here, living close, able to relate and give much more in relationship, as we are here for such a brief time as this.
A lot more is happening outside these camps, in other relationships and venues we savor.
More to come in our next update … cannot thank you enough for your being here with us and them in prayer and financial backing !!!
“(He) is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.”
Daniel
