Ready, Set, GO Kenya!

The day has come and we're ready to roll! The team left the Brookhurst Community Center via shuttle this morning before 10:00, complete with Hany, our young Egyptian Christian driver. We had lunch together inside LAX, and now we're waiting for our boarding announcement.

It's exciting to think that by this time tomorrow we'll be in Nairobi! We believe God is going to use us in some special ways. We don't believe we're the ones who get the greater blessing, or that this trip is mostly for our benefit, for what we can learn. We will, indeed, learn much, and we will be blessed. But make no mistake, we're not making this trip for our own enrichment! We believe with all our hearts that God can and will use us across cultural, language and ethnic barriers at a point in time to impact others for eternity. And we want to be ready for those opportunities, so please pray that we will be aware of them and will be willing to step up and meet the challenges.

Shelly watching our plane get ready

And pray that we will see God's hand working in ways that we may not have known to this point. We want to be stretched and used by Him in work and in fun, when we're anticipating and when we're not, when we're charged and when we're beat. In season and out, as the Apostle Paul put it.

Let's do this!
Update: our flight to Amsterdam arrived with no problem! We're now waiting for our connection to Nairobi. Everyone made the first leg like champs and we can't wait to get where we're going!