Well the team finally made it home! It was a long journey--fraught with baggage problems, sickness, delays--but after many hours we arrived back in Wichita on Saturday night, June 12th, about 10:00 p.m. I don't know about the rest of the team, but after being back home about a week, I'm just barely starting to get back in the swing of things. My mind is "bongo la la" or brain asleep. I feel like my heart and mind are still back in Africa, while my body is here in the U.S. trying to run on auto pilot.
It was good to see friends and family again and get back into our normal routines, but it takes awhile to process our experiences in Africa, and so it seems we are double-minded at the moment (but not necessarily in a bad way).
How was it?--everyone seems to want to know. And there is no short answer. It was wonderful, and eye opening, and shocking, and extreme. It was heart wrenching, sad, thrilling and rewarding. It was exhausting, uplifting, encouraging, and thought provoking. We will be sharing with you all more in the days and weeks ahead as we process what we've seen, heard, and learned. God will continue to teach us in the days ahead as we remember events, people, and circumstances. We only spent two weeks in Tanzania, but we bring home memories to last a lifetime.
Pray for the team members as we acclimate to our "life as normal" in the U.S. And pray also for Steve, Peter, Rachel Marty, Scola, Polycarp, and the other people in Tanzania that touched our lives while we were there.
We learned after we got back home that Polycarp's friend who was in the hospital passed away. Keep his wife and children in your prayers as well.
Asante sana (thank you very much).
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