Update #5 Central Asia

Thursday:
We started the morning off with worship and prayer time in a place called the Upper Room in the city. The Upper Room’s service was done local style (everyone sitting on ground) and included worship and praying scripture over the city and villages around the area.

Next, the team split up to go around the city to meet people. Josh and Dominic met a young local man, walked four miles and spoke two hours with him, eventually leading to a deep conversation about Jesus and the gospel. After that, the two boys became friends with their taxi driver and got invited to eat a national local dish with him.
Girls had lunch at the Moose Coffee (a local favorite) Then went shopping for the back packing trip and items for the house and met some great people along the way.

Lastly, for dinner we decided to make a simple dish of Chicken Nuggets and Rice and debrief with our fieldworker.

Friday:
This morning Deb, Dominic and Hannah were not feeling 100%. As advised by their field workers, they decided to stay back from the Friday activities and backpacking weekend. They had a restful day and are in full recovery.

The rest team went back to the upper room for more prayer and worship. After that, they pulled into cars and headed up the mountains for a full backpacking experience. We will be giving a full update once they return back.

Saturday:
Us in the city had a restful morning and went to grab bread from the local “bread hovel” that makes the best “non” in the neighborhood.

We were then invited to a local house church service by one of the field workers. This house church was filled with prayer, worship through music, reading of the scripture, and small group discussions.

After church, we went to a popular cafe recommended by our fieldworkers. Dom and Hannah order a “burrito” that was definitely just a wrap they served with sour cream and salsa.

Finally, we needed to make a trip to the grocery store for a few items and the workers there were the most helpful people we have encountered yet. Through the use of broken English and lots of Google Translate, we were able to get almost everything on the list! ( a really hard challenge so far) they even bagged our groceries, haled a taxi for us, and wanted to take us to a second store to help us find the rest of the items on our list.

We are taking the evening to rest, but are all in good health and excited to hear about the adventure the rest of our team has been on.

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