Greetings from the other side of the world!
This month we’ll be going out to a different city on the Asia side of Turkey to find an unreached people group and interview them, get to know their culture and by doing so, to see if this area of the world is ready for you know who! (I can’t say certain stuff in blogs/emails for the next month or two. Sorry for the lack of details!) What we’re doing is kind of important because our best friend can’t come back until everyone in the world has a chance to hear about him. We’re ethnographers and its sort of like we work for National Geographic. We’ve been told we’re the largest group (six people) thats ever gone out to this area to research and see these people. Basically we are determining if this area is ready or not for future efforts and if certain people should spend 7-12 years of their life translating our favorite book into the heart language of the people so that everyone can read it. We’re testing the soil and seeing if its ready to be planted. Its pretty exciting!
So please be in prayer that we would have favor with this people group, make great relationships, find a place to stay, that we’d be safe, use wisdom and get the answers we need.
Turkey is incredible and the people are very friendly and hospitable so we’re looking forward to what the next few weeks bring us! Apparently there will be lots of tea!
Also, we had some legit Turkish Delight the other day and now I completely understand Edmund’s dilemma in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Here is you’re dictionary word of the day…
Ethnography: The branch of anthropology that deals with the scientific description of specific human cultures.
