Having Arrived Safely in Rwanda...

Well, after 36 hours of travel we have arrived safely in Kigali Rwanda. We left Kansas City Saturday night at 5:00 p.m., flew to Chicago, then London. After a nine hour layover at Heathrow, we left the UK for Nairobi (Kenya), Bujumbura (Burundi), and finally Kigali. It is amazing how humanizing a shower is after all that time.

Kigali is beautiful. Breathtakingly beautiful. I am seeing all kinds of friends I met at last year's gathering in Uganda, many from the United States, but many more from Africa, Europe, Central America, and Australia.

We have six people from Jacob's Well at this gathering: Beth Mercer, Philip Lesniewski, Ruthie Harrison, Ashley Cleveland, and Laura Lesniewski (I'm number six). Take a minute and say a prayer for Ruthie if you would. Her luggage didn't make it through. Hopefully it is simply delayed, not lost. Being this far from home without any of your own things is not great.

I will be posting often I think. The hotel has free wireless. It is slow so that means few if any pictures, but I can post those later.

Amahoro!

Comments

[Ginger]

Hi, so glad to see you all made it safely, and we're praying for Ruthie and her bags right now.

Mike says to tell Philip he'll be happy; John Lester of the Red Sox just no-hit the Royals. Boston won 7-0.

I'll be keeping up with you guys via your blog.

g

[Larry]

Now I know Phil is tall, but you really don't need to count him twice!

[Tim]

Thanks, Ginger. And good catch, Larry. I meant to say Laura Lesniewski. Will adjust accordingly. ;-)