Team Blog

Pastor Joseph

We spent a morning talking with Pastor Joseph, who is from the capital city of this country. We learned some surprising things!

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Lessons Learned

Yesterday, my young friend Abe (who is only 22, but grew up in this city) took me to Amna Suraka, the site of a prison that was used by Saddam’s regime as a part of his genocide program against this people group.

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Stories in Pictures

In the last few days we’ve been to the BUH-zar, joined a restaurant full of Muslims for Iftar, and visited the site of an ancient church from about 1500 years ago.

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Low-level Alert

We hadn’t been here half a week, when the people that were in charge of us, met with us and told us we had come into this country on a low level alert, but now it had gone up a notch.

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Saturday Night

I’ve known about this preaching assignment for a few months now. In our team meetings last winter, we decided that before Easter we would preach from the Gospel of John, and then after the Easter weekend, we would begin a series from the book of Ephesians.

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First Impressions

Karen and I arrived here on Sunday, May 12 and it was immediately apparent that we were in a whole new world. Here are some first impressions, along with a few photos.

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