Eight, 50 pound bags are neatly packed and ready to go. Thank you to Toni, Deb and my Mom for your organization in carefully packing, weighing and re-packing, weighing and then re-packing one more time to get each bag to just under 50 pounds! While many of the contents in our suitcases include what we think are necessities for living in Liberia over a two-week period, the most important contents are those items that we take to share and bless our friends with. It's actually pretty simple - a bottle of lotion, a jar of Jif peanut butter, etc. It doesn't take much!
So, the team is off tomorrow. Dee and Josh leave home around 6:30 a.m. and the rest of us leave at 11:00 a.m. We'll meet up in Brussels by Sunday morning and then will catch the connecting flight to Liberia - landing around 7:30 p.m. on Sunday evening. While it's a bit of a hassle getting through immigration, collecting bags and passing through customs without paying bribes, real joy comes when we see the familiar faces of our friends anxiously waiting outside the airport. We are blessed.
Thank you all for your prayers and we hope to post soon upon our arrival.
The Lord will open the heavens, the storehouse of His bounty... to bless all the work of your hands. Deuteronomy 28:12
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