“We traveled so far away, that if we had gone any further, we would have been on our way back!” That is how I have described a journey that very few have the opportunity to attempt, but that I recently had the privilege to make. As part of a two-man team, Terry Sharp and I were invited to participate in demographic research and observation of the Zaza people. Not only were we to discover where the Zazas
were living, we were also to look at the role their language plays in their life. A question we were answering for ourselves was, “How can Long Hollow be a part of evangelizing the Zaza people?” Oppressed over many years and assimilated into the Turkish culture by the Turkish people, the Zazas are a people group that has also 5