Source: Pioneers USA, August 18, 2016
Central Asia is breathtaking in its scenic vistas and the hospitality of its people. Its history and spiritual need after centuries of being a crossroads also take your breath away.
In this second video of our Middle Ground series, our tour guide heads out of the city with Pioneers workers to visit a mountain village and a traditional jailo, or summer pasture, where a shepherd tends his flock. Rob experiences both the rich hospitality of a meal with his hosts and the unsettling reality of what it took to make that meal possible.
» Read full story or watch Rob Experiences Life and Death (nine minutes long).
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