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North Dakota Family Church
5th World Tour: Events # 1 & 2
5th World Tour: ND's Kickoff Event #1:
* At the home of John & Keiko Foss
* Sunday, Dec. 3, 2006, Fargo, ND
* 22 participants
* Four Am/Peaces appointed
* Blessing ceremony held/ DVD watched
* The whole speech was read
Keiko Foss (who did a three-day fast to start off Ambassadors for Peace appointments) & Cindy Pfeiffer began their outreach earlier in the week reaching out to past contacts of good character, through prayer, that we felt would be appropriate to be appointed as Ambassadors for Peace. Many ideas started to open up. Keiko reached out to a minister’s wife, a young Kurdish couple Mahdy & Soham Bawary, a former Am/Peace’s daughter, able-type relatives, and community leaders; both Keiko and Cindy went to the city hall showing the DVD there. Both of us made individual appointments throughout the week.
Mahdy & Soham Barwardi, youth leader
We wanted to make Sunday evening special by reaching out to our longtime contacts: the Kurdish family that we have been connected to. In 1995 two Kurdish couples: Salman & Helema Barwardi & Annis & Khadija Yesin attended the Satellite Blessing in Minneapolis with Juergen & Cindy Pfeiffer. Salman was a military general for 19 years and worked with the US in the zone-free area during the Golf War. Likewise, his son-in-law, Annis Yesin was one of the translators who also helped the US military during the Golf War. This family has a long history of suffering in their home country of Kurdistan, Iraq. Many Kurdish families had their villages air-dumped with chemicals by Saddam Hussein’s regime; they had to repeatedly flee to the hillsides in the middle of the night to avoid exposure. Many still have adverse affects like stunted growth. Some had to flee through mountainous terrain carrying their children only to feel them die in their arms. Being in a well know position, this particular family had to buy other people’s identity to escape. They waited for three years in a refugee camp in Turkey until the US government could find sponsors for such a huge amount of refugees. In our area, the Lutheran Social Services sponsored the Kurds. They still travel back and forth to Kurdistan and are a beautiful example of a solid three-generational family living in close contact. By looking at the photo we can see families that are fruitful—having many children. They are truly desirous of world peace and feel very connected to our founder! Salman Barwardi is very proud of the fact that he resembles our Founder, True Father. During the 50 state tour, he danced at the entrance when seeing Father there. They looked very happy to be appointed Am/Peace!
John & Keiko Foss prepared their home beautifully, and each family brought dishes of food to share. For the weeks’ total, counting this Sunday, we have appointed 18 new Ambassadors for Peace.
Salman & Helema Barwardi
North Dakota Family Church
2986 Southgate Drive, Fargo ND 58103
701-293-9765 phone
701-232-2667 fax
