Nora and I greet you warmly in this frigid second week of February!

Let’s open with some personal notes.

Nora continues her roles in education, with SSN-severe special needs students, at the local elementary school.  She loves her work, yet faces increased tensions this year, as new students present more challenging teaching needs.  She’s up to it.  But wow, the end-of-day proves fatigued!
 
Eliana joined the U.S. Navy and left on 3 January, with her own unknown challenges.  Two weeks into the planned pre-basic-training “quarantine”, she finally gets a 5-minute call through to me, saying; “Dad, someone in our quad tested positive for Covid-19 and they are extending our quarantine an extra two weeks!”  Brutal!  We both cried and prayed together.  She’s now finally two weeks into Navy Basic Training.  If you spot her before we do, at:
https://www.facebook.com/NavyRecruitTrainingCommand/photos/?ref=page_internal
let us know.  🙂

I feel just fine!  Truly.
Before I introduce this next topic … promise me you’ll focus on the word “chronic”.  It simply means “ongoing”.  OK, promise!?  “Ongoing” … yes, that’s it.
After a routine physical two months ago; bloodwork indicated some elevations.  Further bloodwork and a bone marrow biopsy, indicated that I have a ….. yes, remember to focus on that word … “chronic”, …. condition that needs attention to keep my white blood cells in check and not birthing new ones too rapidly.  The NON-chemotherapy medication(Imatinib) I am now on is doing just that.  We are thanking God.
I feel just fine!  Truly.
OK, now for the technical-medial term:  CML – Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
Are you still with me … with that keyword, of “chronic”?!
Caught in time, chronic stays chronic, for a very long time.  Most people my age die of something unrelated, in 10-30 years.  We are grateful all was caught in good timing, early.  Without any more belaboring, here is the site for further information:
https://www.nccn.org/patients/guidelines/content/PDF/cml-patient.pdf

      
We continue to be amazed at how our staff and associates are working in all our villages and refugee camps, even in all the difficulties and challenges of Covid-19.  Story after story pours into my editing desk each month, of how our quality staff and associates are implementing TCD and Disaster Relief principles, further sustainability in hundreds of lives and expanded villages.  Just today, I received a brand new proposal from Nepal, to add a new village implementing TCD.  Here is an excerpt from that proposal (unedited):

“This project is based on the village transformation with the help of transformation community development (TCD). TCD in C. village aims to bring hope for the poor people living in miserable conditions for sustainability in the community with five key development areas such as water, food, wellness, education, and income generation. Our target is to help the people of this slum village through TCD, to achieve long-term self-sustainable community development especially in the sectors of education, health, and family income generation.

One of the major concepts of this project is to assist and empower people at their level of poverty, which arose from poor health, education, and economic situation. It is also susceptible to natural disasters like the earthquake that took place in 2015 and devastated the village’s property totally. People started to go abroad for labor while some people become victims of human trafficking. So, raising awareness and teaching about anti-human trafficking and slavery prevention, empowering skill development, and encouraging them to be self-sustainable so the villagers can be a true solution. Thus, helping to minimize vulnerability, ends poverty, and alleviates slavery as well.”

Well, there you have it … our heart and work!  🙂

  
Yes, travel is perfectly fine, in my health condition.
So I am trying to get out the door again … to Lebanon.  There, we have delivered to the port in Beirut, 1000+ wheelchairs arranged via many connections.  We need to get those out to those in need, and do some work with those recipients!
  
It is also my heart to see Khalil, he who took care of me those 21 days quarantined in Beirut … as Khalil has lost his precious wife(Micha) to Covid-19.  😦
Thankfully, I’m now resistant to this illness.  We are honored to have you support us in all this … truly privileged!

Nora and I cannot thank you enough for your hand in making all such things possible!
If you ever want to hear more, or need to see more of such proposals and reports; you’re always free to contact me for such.

Affectionately always   …
Daniel and Nora

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If your heart so moves, we would love you to join us in these advancements.  Relationships, prayer, financial, participation in trips, and more, are all intricate in this journey of trust and love each of us lives out in 2021.   Daniel and Nora

Global Hope Network International 934 N. Magnolia Ave.   Suite # 310 Orlando,   FL   32803-3840 407.207.3256   https://www.globalhopenetwork.org/about/staff/daniel-emig You are essential! You are thanked! GILPP – Geneva Institute Of Leadership and Public Policy – CLICK LINK HERE  The Geneva Institute for Leadership and Public Policy (GILPP) was established by GHNI to help national political leaders transform their nations toward freedom and sustainability. The vision for GILPP is to promote public policy created by enlightened and compassionate public leadership, bridging the gap between governments and those living in poverty. Help & Hope for the Hidden & Hurting As GHNI Lead Assist in C./S. Asia & C. Europe I work to: – be in & assess villages – develop people & resources – teach & further TCD – mentor – train leadership TCD – Transformational Community Development Bringing sustainability in: – Water – Food – Health-Wellness – Education – Financial Capacity Emig Family Dan & Nora Jonathan (23) Bryan (21) Eliana (19)

GHNI donations address: Global Hope Network International 934 N. Magnolia Avenue    STE 310 Orlando,  FL   32803-3840 (407) 207-3256‬ https://www.globalhopenetwork.org/about/staff/daniel-emig Thank you !!! Daniel and Nora

Christmastide Season and New Year ’21

“I believe that you, you and I, need to surrender and submit to this … ”     (Nora quote)

Friend!

15 days into my 21-day Covid-19(C-19) quarantine in Beirut, Lebanon, and part of a 31-day trip, Nora said the above.  Wasn’t she the one I was always asking prayer for, in my travels?  Yet, I was the one struggling through moments of pain-anger, stuck in a hotel room, wanting to bust out?  She turned a huge corner!  It was so refreshing to my heart.   Wow, were we glad to see each other again !!!

Thanksgiving found us C-19-prevention gathered as a family.  All hands-on-deck as each of us helped in the kitchen under the Commodore … Nora.
  
“Commodore” is no random word.  We’re learning a whole new vocabulary, as Eliana signed up for the U.S. Navy.  So hard to believe, our 19-year-old daughter, youngest of our kids, and last to leave home, ships off to Naval Station Great Lakes, 3 January.
 
Travel has been an eggshell-walk this year.  You may recall, we just got back from the Middle East in the Spring, some five days before C-19 era travel ceased altogether (escape, whew!).  Even that trip, entering Iraq, they took our temperatures at the airport twice.  October/November, we window-squeezed into Iraq and Lebanon, with much accomplished on the ground in both countries, only to have our last two days in Lebanon putting me into C-19 positive quarantine in a Beirut hotel (captured, got me!).

Looking back on 2020, and into 2021, we are amazed at accomplishments, amidst what sometimes seemed like our blunders and naive raw acts of faith and love.  It’s impossible to capture here, all that’s happened on the field, in our hearts, and in the hearts and lives of others.
   
Tamara, with her husband(Sam), are such examples of those we’re privileged to partner and serve.  War-torn(post) Armenia, in its darkest hour, has such a light as they.  Tamara, and her volunteers, have now:
* started a Community Center teaching sewing and postcard making
* built an outhouse and updated the Center
* taught and counseled many serving IDP (Internally Displaced Persons)
* distributed bread-making ovens to 10 homes and 25+ family entities
* gained closer proximity to IDP camps and teaching sewing skills there,
* organized distributions of blankets, hygiene supplies, bedding, and children’s school needs materials.

Tamara “gets” TCD-Transformational Community Development !
   
Iraq and Lebanon trips recently found us, once again, opening new doors, as we served in familiar places like refugee camps among Yazidi and in the Beqaa Valley among Syrians.  Children were able to start school, as we distributed basic education starter-kits for Yazidi children.  TCD education moved ahead as the team purchased and taught mechanical sets principles.  Our dear friend, Joseph, in Beirut, made it back from the brink of severe C-19, is now doing very well.  We are so grateful for his healing and restoration.
 
Another miracle … !
During my Beirut quarantine, minor-brief-cursory conversations began with Joseph, Mike (my colleague), another “anonymous Mike”(aM), and myself.  aM has political, relational, and external financial connections.  Joseph has political and relational connections.  Regular Mike and I have … well, limits in these areas.  Things happen when people of faith and love step out, just saying.  In five weeks, all the extremely complicated financial, logistical and relational pins fall into place to unlock the metaphorical lock.  As you read this, Joni&Friends, bent over backward to help us all expedite 1000 wheelchairs +++, which arrived via ocean freight in four 40’ containers in Lebanon.  I’m tell’n ya, this kind of crazy good stuff has been happening all year, in the Middle East, Armenia, and other places we work, smack in C-19 times and territory !!!
   
Nora and I cannot thank you enough for your part in all this, and in our personal lives. Good is happening and bursting forth and moving ahead, regardless of politics and social upheavals.
  
Typically, 20%-30% of our annual and additional monthly financial needs are received and/or added in these final days and weeks of each year.
If your heart so moves you, we would love for you to participate.  Relationships, prayer, financial, participation in trips, and more, are all intricate in these wild steps of faith and love we can all step into in 2021.

Affectionately always and a Joyful Christmastide Season and New Year to you …
Daniel and Nora

Global Hope Network International
934 N. Magnolia Ave.   Suite # 310
Orlando,   FL   32803-3840
407.207.3256  
https://www.globalhopenetwork.org/about/staff/daniel-emig

Posted October 28, 2020

Fellow sojourner …
while it’s not the news I or you wanted to hear, let’s all remain faithful in this and the journey ahead!  God is trustworthy.  
So here goes … 

upon entrance to the Beirut, Lebanon airport, en route from Erbil, Iraq on 3 October, I tested positive for Covid-19.  For confirmation, I was again tested and results were positive, on the 5th.  I have waited to relate any of this to you, wanting to insure all the tests were confirmed, and most importantly, that I could relate all this to Nora first. 

All precautions were in place, even to the extent of me getting tested 3x times in the USA before we left, and again in Sulaymaniah, just before we left Iraq.  All tests were “negative” for C-19.  

Teammates, Mike, Joseph, Khalil, all tested negative on the 5th.  

I am fine.  In all honesty, I feel great!  I have had no real symptoms, to date.  The Ministry of Health – Lebanon, has all travelers confined to a hotel room for quarantine.  I am closely monitored by a trained paramedic(a teammate), and have a temperature monitoring device on me always.  Joseph and Khalil are most gracious and provisional, in every way.  I have plenty of food, water, vitamins, etc..  The hotel room is adequate and due to Joseph’s connections and love, is only $23 per night.  I have plenty of work to do, and can accomplish all from the room, via WiFi. In that real sense, all is well.  

On the other hand, this is a really tough one, as this prolongs the trip, and I am stuck in a hotel room, alone, for the remaining stay.  
Thanks deeply !!!   

Since this update is already a bit long, I’ll just say that up until this Covid-19 hit, it has been an absolutely awesome trip, with lots moving ahead on many levels and areas!  Gratefully, we lost only 2.5 days of on-the-ground work, as Covid hit late in the trip. I will inform you much more in the next update, hopefully in only a few days.  

Until then … here’s a taste … in photos … 
     
How can we thank you enough for your interceding for us in so many ways !  

Our deep gratefulness and affections embrace you, as you do also to us  … 
Dan and Nora 

GHNI – Global Hope Network International 
https://www.globalhopenetwork.org/about/staff/daniel-emig

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Daniel & Nora
… Jonathan, Bryan & Eliana
 

TCD – Transformational Community Development Bringing
Help and Hope to the Hidden and Least
in villages, refugee areas, as we also bring sustainability in:
– Water
– Food
– Health-Wellness
– Education
– Financial Capacity