Prior Trips

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2024 has been a full year for SU. Three trips to Iraq have been completed, with a fourth about to start. SU made return trips to Kenya in January, and Pakistan in August, with both trips launching from Iraq. In addition to these in person trips, SU has been pouring help into their country partners in Kenya and Pakistan, along...

Summers in Iraq reach temperatures of 125. Most expats leave. We though travel there, in part due to annual renewals of both SU Kurdistan and our visas. But it opens up opportunities to join with our friends in Iraq who don't have options to leave. The theme of "family" was central to this trip, with a desire to strengthen the...

Nine breath-taking days. Just as the weather started to cool in Iraq, Eric and Karla left Iraq to go to Pakistan where there was both heat AND humidity. The focus was not the weather though, but to bring help, encouragement and assistance to three groups working within Pakistan.

People who work in Iraq say that you reassess your mission there at least once every two years. This trip to Iraq was that trip, specifically whether to continue to operate a base that offers housing to distressed and disenfranchised individuals.

2023 was a full year, with first time trips to Kenya and Pakistan, a return trip to the villages near the Russian frontline in Ukraine, and tremendous growth over seven months spend on two trips into Iraq.

The door to our van had just opened after we had travelled to the village of Krashakrivnov, and a woman excited cried out "I remember you!" when she saw me.