We are now in Armenia...

Hello My Dear Friends and Supporters –
I wanted to let you know that I am now in Armenia. It was a long day of traveling from Chisinau, Moldova to Odessa, Ukraine. We left on the bus at 7:00 in the morning and arrived around 3:00 in the afternoon. Our flight did not leave until 8:45 in the evening, so we set up shop in the airport. We sat around listening to music and reading our books. Around 6:00 in the evening we attempted to go through customs only to find our flight had been delayed. At 8:30 in the evening we finally started the journey through customs again. We finally boarded our flight around 11:30 at night and we arrived in Armenia around 4:00 in the morning on October twenty-sixth. It was quite the day. =)
We are now in Armenia. We are resting from our journey and our learning about a community development plan called Community Health Evangelism. This program looks at health from physical, emotional and spiritual aspects. Members of the community are trained on the program, create a committee and then train others in their community. The idea behind the program is to get people in villages to think about solutions to the issues they face. These issues may be lack of fuel, lack of clean water, bad backs or toothaches. It encourages them to look for the cause of the problem and then come up with solutions using local resources. The trained members are also to visit homes in their community to discuss problems and solutions. At the root of everything is the love Christ has for us and to share this love by meeting people’s needs. Our role is to inform, train and help share the vision of this program to the Armenian Kurds.
After our training days and rest we will begin to help build houses for Armenians who lost their home twenty or so years ago in an earthquake. They have been living in FEMA style trailers since they lost their home. Then we will use our Community Health Evangelism training to train the Ysidi Kurds. Lastly we will help build winter kits for those who lack enough food for the winter. For the last part of our trip we will head to Georgia and work with the people displaced from the war.
Please continue your prayers as the team and myself begin this last part of our journey.
“The amazing grace of the Master, Jesus Christ, the extravagant love of God, the intimate friendship of the Holy Spirit, be with all of you”. 2 Corinthians 13:14