Sunday 1-10-10

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Our travels took us from the “Frozen Tundra” of Dallas to the Sweltering heat of Lome. I don’t think any of us ever thought we would see about 100 degree difference in temperatures within a 36 hour difference.

In Paris we became concerned as we were told that one of our bags may be MIA between the connection from Paris to Lome. We quickly set our concerns aside as we knew that we had no control over the issue and that whatever bags we needed would make it to Lome and indeed they did.

It was so great to see our friends from the past trip as they came to welcome us at the airport last night at 10 PM. Seems the only thing we seemed to “misplace” going through customs was some clothing and Jeff Knowles pocket knife. We gladly “exchanged” a soccer ball with one of the bag inspectors in Lome for our ability to go on through.

Samuel, Nakye, and Shalome were all waiting anxiously to meet us once we got though customs. It was so good to see those guys again….it seemed to many of us that we were just here a month ago.

This morning Dudley and Jeff Knowles attended church at Wuiti while Jonathan, Randy, and Jeff Gravley attended church at Hosanna. Church started here at 7:30 AM and ran through about 10:15 or so. It was so neat to see many of the parishioners that we saw last year. The children are as beautiful as ever.

We are about to eat lunch and then begin our day before evening service. We are truly grateful for all of the many prayers and support we have received. We also are especially grateful for the wonderful people who provided us financial support for this trip. Without your sacrificial giving this trip would not have been possible.

We already miss our families and pray for their well being during our trip. We are thinking and talking about you all constantly. Oh yeah….thanks to those for texting us the Cowboys Score! Wow! Way to go ‘Boys! Hopefully we can get on line today and read up on what we missed.

Keep praying for us and our travels to the North tomorrow.

We miss you all and send our love.

The Togo Team!