Proverbs 16:9
In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.
Proverbs 19:21
Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the LORD's purpose that prevails.
We met at the church this morning at 11:00 a.m., loaded up the van and went to the airport. We successfully got all our bags checked and made it through security checkpoints. Unfortunately, the first leg of our flight met with some delays.
Because of weather problems in Chicago (we heard tornadoes) our plane arrived late to Wichita. Then once on the plane, there were some wind sheers reported which led to additional delays. When we finally departed, we were about 2 hours behind schedule. We ended up missing our connecting flight from Chicago to London; it left about 5 minutes before we made it to the departure gate. Therefore, we are spending the night in Chicago, and won't be leaving until tomorrow (Friday) to fly to London. Basically, we are one day behind schedule, but should be arriving on Sunday morning instead of Saturday morning in Tanzania at the same time of day as originally planned.
We were blessed by the fact that a church in Mulvane, KS blessed us in the last couple of weeks with some additional funding and supplies. We were able to use this additional funding to help pay for our unexpected expenses of a hotel stay. Also, we have a nice hotel in Chicago with plenty of hot running water, free wi-fi, and sleep number beds--a nice prelude to our expected accommodations in Arusha.
We ask for your prayers as we are currently scheduled to have to split up the team to fly on three separate flights from Chicago on Friday. Obviously, this is not ideal. John is calling the travel agent again tomorrow to see if there is any way that we can all get booked on the same flight, but with 8 of us, and it being a holiday weekend, we don't anticipate this being a realistic possibility.
God is certainly teaching us patience and flexibility and that He is always in control and that we are not!
Mungu akubariki, Bwana Asifiwa
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Tracking you flight on the internet. Looks like you got out of Chicago late but thats about par for the course for O'Hare.
Still trying to make contact with your contact in Africa to get the Skype contection finalized.
Praying foy you all.
Travel safe.
Bill Lindsay
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