Hello from temperate springtime Central Asia! It’s been cool and breezy and even rained recently — probably for the last time before next winter. Wanted to ask for your prayer and thanksgiving for a few things: Nepal Next Week My CW Area Director has asked me to join him on a visit to a CW team in Nepal — and [...]
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Potluck Party for Central Asia
Interested in Vox’s connections to Central Asia? A friend of E? Never heard of him? Great, if you answered yes or no to any of these questions, or any other questions, we have the event for you. A potluck party at Space12 to celebrate Central Asia, E, and the present combination of the two. There’ll be succulent kebabs, large-format prints [...]
E’s Update: Epiphany, Hospitality, Hearing
Happy (late) New Year from Central Asia. Last week, the foreigner community had a service for Epiphany, the tradition celebrating the arrival of the royal astrologers and their gifts to the feet of the toddler Messiah. We talked about the history a bit—apparently the best research finds the astrologers to have been extremely literate and wealthy Persians, specifically Kurdish (or [...]
E’s Update: Live at Liturgy
Join us this Sunday (Jan 16) at liturgy as we’ll get a chance to hear from our beloved friend E, who’s back in Austin for a little while. He’ll share about his time in Central Asia, the joys and challenges that he’s faced and what’s next in his journey when he heads back over there. [Photo by evanistan @ Flickr]
E’s Update: Great News
Hey dear friends, Greetings from the USA. You are all well I hope. I have to apologize for recently not being as good about keeping everyone in the loop as I maybe had been in the past. With all the crisis work and travel I just sort of zonked out. So here’s what’s going on. I promise it’s anything but [...]
E’s Update: Temporary Return
Hi dear friends, You are all doing well I hope. The reason I’m writing is because I’m about to leave the country for a time, indeed far before I imagined I would. The choice wasn’t mine per se, more of a team-wide consensus that, given the many local security situations that have cropped up over the last few months—culminating in [...]
E’s Update: Eid-e-Qorbaan
Hey guys, So! Things are still crazy busy! But I did find time to make an Eid visit a few days ago. For those of you unfamiliar with the word, Eid-e-Qorbaan (Dari) or Eid-el-Adha (Arabic) is the holiday commemorating the time when Ibrahim’s imminent slaying of his son was substituted by the ram caught in the bush. So people slaughter [...]