D-Day

It's Thursday night (almost Friday morning!) and I have one more night of work before I am off for a few weeks to be in Thailand. People keep asking me if I am excited, and the answer is definitely yes. More than anything, it feels so surreal that I will be boarding a plane in a few days to go to the other side of the world with 24 other crazy (the good kind of crazy) people!

The journey to get to this point has been so full of God's providence and blessings! Throughout the entire fundraising time period, our team was ahead of most all mission teams. We had an abundance of supporters who came through for us time and time again! About a week ago we where still about $7,000 short... and it seemed that in a days time it all came in. Praise the Lord! While we can breath a little easier now (well, some of us anyway!) we still must not let our guard down. Prayer and preparations in these last few days and all during the trip are still vital for the fruitfulness of our endeavors.

The official status of our journey presently stands as follows:
Meet at Lancaster Evangelical Free Church at 1:00 PM to pray, say our goodbyes and load up on the vans.
Drive to JFK airport and prepare for departure.
Travel for a billion hours (ok, so maybe that's exaggerating) to Frankfurt, Germany.
Have a layover there for a few hours - hopefully recharge the laptop!
Travel for another billion hours to Singapore.
Have a short layover there and ogle at the world outside the airport from the windows.
Finally a short flight from Singapore to Chiang Mai, where we will go to our guest house!

Please be in fervent prayer that we make it through security, boarding, flying and luggage transfers with no difficulties! Another good thing to pray for would be good health and that everyone is well rested and not exhausted from the long flights! We need to not only keep up our spiritual health, but our physical and mental health too!
An extra prayer you could put in for me would be a focused heart and willingness to follow where the Spirit leads. While I am excited to go on this trip and minister to the Thai people, as well as to our students, I have a lot going on back home without me! When I get back from Thailand, I have 6 weeks until my wedding... and there's a lot to do between now and then! I don't want to let that distract me from my work! =)

While I can't guarantee updates every day, or even long, detailed ones at that, I am going to try my best to keep you all posted! There is about an 11 hour time difference, so keep that in mind! In addition to that, I am sure there will be many nights where all I will want to do is sleep and not blog. Please be patient with me! ;)

Thank you all for your support in so many different ways! We wouldn't be in the middle of packing and preparing to leave if it wasn't for you!

Făn dee! (sweet dreams!)