Greetings from #214 English Village, Erbil, Iraq. As many of you know, after much thought and prayer, Eric traveled to Iraq in September '08 with a private equity group called The Marshall Fund. After being here for two weeks, helping with a business plan to re-open a food processing plant in Harir, Iraq, and understanding the heart of the people involved in this project he decided that this was where he would like to be. Nearly 93% of all food in Iraq is imported. With the opening of this food processing plant they hope to start the process of rebuilding Northern Iraq's agricultural business...and develop a market in which they can compete with imported products. Eric has been living here since the first week of October and has found the work to be very challenging, exciting and rewarding.
On March 17th, after Eric was home in Nashville for a week we left together for the journey back to Iraq. On the way we stopped in Pittsburgh to visit our son Peter and his wife Tina and then on to Suffolk, VA to visit our son Jesse and his family and to help Abigail celebrate her 6th birthday and then on Sunday the 22nd of March we departed the great USA from Dulles airport . We were able to spend 3 fabulous days in Florence, Italy on our way, a day in Vienna, Austria and then on to our home away from home in Erbil, Iraq. It is my hope with this blog to give you a picture of our life here, the wonderful people of Kurdistan and the ability,by the Grace of God, to choose Joy in this journey to a very interesting part of our world.
On March 17th, after Eric was home in Nashville for a week we left together for the journey back to Iraq. On the way we stopped in Pittsburgh to visit our son Peter and his wife Tina and then on to Suffolk, VA to visit our son Jesse and his family and to help Abigail celebrate her 6th birthday and then on Sunday the 22nd of March we departed the great USA from Dulles airport . We were able to spend 3 fabulous days in Florence, Italy on our way, a day in Vienna, Austria and then on to our home away from home in Erbil, Iraq. It is my hope with this blog to give you a picture of our life here, the wonderful people of Kurdistan and the ability,by the Grace of God, to choose Joy in this journey to a very interesting part of our world.
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