Last year we were with Felix Rejser and Dansk Europamission i Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. Vi assumed that we would meet some Christian sisters and brothers who don't have as simple a life as we do - people who know persecution for their faith. We hoped that we might be of some encouragement to them, but it turned out the other way around: they were a great encouragement to us.
Former orphanage children get ready for adulthood
We experienced visiting Egehuset in Kyrgyzstan, which Danish European Mission donors support. In Kyrgyzstan you can orphanage children only stay at governmental Orphanages until they turn fiveemts years. Some can live With family, But others are standing on your own.Passionate people - filled with God's love - have set up a so-called transition home for eight girls from orphanages where they can live, Get peace of mind to takeand educatelens and get lots of love to get them ready for adulthood. Experiencing the well-being of the olde house was breathtaking.

Kyrgyzstan has a very beautiful nature that we experienced Up close and personalIn that wewas fed in a yurt-and traditional nomad tent. We were supposed to sleep there too, but it had gotten too cold. We watched Kyrgyz buzkashi- a competition where participants ride horses. It's pretty wild, but it's common i Central Asia. The sport can be compared to polo. Two teams compete to get a headless and legless dead animal into the other team's goal. It's usually a goat, which weighs approx. 30 kilo. Riders rush off on signal from the referee's whistle. One of them gets the dead goat off the ground at full speed. Riders from The opposing team tries to take the goat from him.
Help for drug addicts, alcoholics and prisoners
We also visited a rehabilitation center in Kazakhstanthat a church ran with support from donors of the Danish European Mission. It was for drug addicts, alcoholics and released prisoners, all in need of care, love and employment - but most of allto get to know Jesus. That place had great Favored by local authorities because of their good results. That's big in a Muslim country, where Christians are sometimes viewed with skepticism.
We also got a shake-it-together trip into the mountains. We were shuttled around in a special mountain bus on the trip. It was a very beautiful trip, if your heart wasn't in your throat looking down into the abyss next to the bus.

At one of the hotels we were visited by a Christian woman, who have been employed in one of Danish European Mission's projects. She Narrated. Bone about his life. Despite great persecution - even the murder of His father-in-law - she continued to show love to her neighbors. For three years no one would talk to her because she is a Christian, but as she continued to show them care, they slowly realized that she was not dangerous. She was alone in the village as her husband was in Russia to earn a living for them. What would I have done in her place? Such sacrifice and charity is hard to find in our part of the world.
In Kazakhstan, we met a pastoral family who had chosen to live in a very pollutet city, because that's where the people most in need of care lived. When it's winter, it's top layer i snowand Fatewhich says something about the pollution in the city. There are also great social need, and the church shares food parcels to the poor, widows, homeless and orphans. They really helped bring hope and joy. The Muslims ask: Why are you doing this for us? The answer is: We have experienced God's love and we pass it on.
We have only reproduced a very small part of our experience. For us, it was an experience of a lifetime.
Our guides were fantastic and took loving care of us during the trip.