One week from today we leave. It's hard to believe it's really happening, except for the pile of things accumulating on my dining room table for the trip: teaching aids, sleep masks for the plane, a feather boa, Bible study lesson plans. Pastor Eric's office is filling up with team supplies and suitcases full of quilts, Wisconsin memorabilia, and many other teaching materials.
We're getting our class teaching schedules, dividing into teaching groups, sending out prayer support letters and digging out the suitcases. Ice breakers, lesson plans, dramas, a cheese head hat, EAA posters, personal photo albums, all these things are being planned and packed. But they are all just resources that we are taking so that we can be flexible. Plans can be made, but as every person who has gone on a mission knows, things change. Schedules change. Situations develop that we have no control over. So we go with some trepidation, but also confidence in knowing that we are not a team of 8, but of 9. As the Chilian miners said there were not 33 people trapped down in the mine, there were 34 down there. God was with them, and he will be with us.
We ask everyone reading this to lift up your prayers for us. Where God's Word is being preached, that is where Satan works the hardest to stop it. Only through the prayers of many people will this trip be a success.
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Hey team - My mom clued me in on your trip coming up and it is so neat to read about the upcoming trip and see all the pictures you posted! I'm praying for health for the whole team and a safe trip, with many blessings to you and the people you will meet. Love from AK ~ Jennie (Morvak) Wendland
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