The Update

Dear Friends and Family,

It has been far to long, and that is totally my fault. I can know for sure that it's been to long because I had to go back and read what the last thing I told you guys about was. Well, please allow me to catch you up.

on the 23rd of April thousands of Turks converged on an island in the bay of Istanbul to walk up to the peak, which is a good 5-7 Kilometer trek all the while praying or dragging a thread behind them on the final assent. Me and the rest of the guys on the team were on the island along that final assent stage playing music and drama/puppet shows. Watch this wonderful video put together by Kenneth ( a guy here with us for the summer) to get a better idea of what exactly happened here and what we did.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaXRLMgQ3DU&feature=youtu.be

The next thing I should tell you about is the trip to Ankara with the Puppet show called "The Suitcase Sideshow" We spent a total of five days in Ankara, they looked something like this.

Saturday morning: Performed the show once in a children's fair at the international church
Sunday: Performed for sundayschools at Kurtulus church
             On the street
             In a park ( although we had to just hand out flyers inviting people to the church because there was a concert going on in the park at that time.
Monday: Performed on the Street
               In the park again
Tuesday: Performed at Kurtulus church at their "invite people into the church event"

A few highlights/interesting events along the trip were:

• Very little leg room on the over night bus to Ankara
• Performing for children and seeing their reaction as well as their parents reaction to the gospel message.
• Experiencing persecution at the park on Monday when a man walked up and blocked the stage with his body and started yelling at us. This man was so disruptive that the Turkish from the church that had arranged for all of our performance called the police to remove him, sadly the when the police came the were totally in competent and didn't remove the man at all. When the man from the church confronted them on this he discovered that the man who was disrupting our show was actually a on duty undercover police man, and he outranked them so they did not intend to step in. Despite the fact that we had previously attained permission to do our show their we had to pack up
• staying with a bunch of Turkish believers and being encouraged by them.

Recently I've been very excited about how outreaches have been shaping up. The summer has warmed up and we are now taking our instruments to the streets, and engaging people that way. We have a world Champion Illusionist who has joined us for a week and has a incorporated his testimony into his act, we are truly blessed to have him working with us. He will be joining us again when we go to Kyrgyzstan for a tour on the 14th. We will tour in Kyrgyzstan for two weeks.

Recently I had to step out of the country to fix a Visa problem, it is a little complicated and I won't be explaining it on the web. So I spent the last weekend in Vienna looking around and staying with a friend of a friend there. It was a great time, although the weather really wasn't that great.


                                                               This is the Historic Library

 

And this is the Natural History Museum, there is a very similar building across from this one which is one of the many art museums in Vienna.

I've got to start packing for Kyrgyzstan now, I have a load of laundry in the washer now and I have at least one more load to do after that. Please Pray that

• God will be glorified on this tour
• That we will all be safe and not get sick
• That God would strengthen us for the road

Thank you so much as always,

God Bless

-Peter Davis