We're HOME!!!

Hey Everyone, we made it home! It was more of an adventure than we would have preferred, but we made it.

British Airways - in all of their competence - somehow managed to come up with a discrepancy in the baggage that took them 2 hours to fix in London. The result of this was a missed connection in Seattle for our flight to Portland. Alaska/Horizon has flights between the 2 cities every half hour, but it was 4th of July weekend, which meant their were no available seats.

So who wants to spend the night in Seattle? No hands go up. I then started hitting the rental car counters to find out who would rent us a couple of large vehicles to go one way to Portland. Ended up with Avis - and picked up a Ford F-150 double cab pickup and a Cadillac DTS. Ken drove the pickup, I took the Cadillac. Unfortunately, the Caddy didn't have a bench seat in front, so that left us with only 10 seats for 11 people. Lance valiantly chose to wait and standby for a flight at 11 pm.

So we headed out on the last leg of our trip. I woke up at 5 am London time Sunday morning. By the time we headed out of the Seattle airport, it was 4 am Monday London time. By the time we got to the Ridgefield rest area on I-5, it was 6:30 am Monday London time, an I was one tired puppy! Got out of the car and the cool air revived me enough to make it on home.

There is much more to say, much more to process. I'm not going to promise daily updates to this blog, but I know that we're planning on getting everyone together again in a couple of weeks, at which time I'll add more comments.

I would like everyone to know, however, that this trip had a profound impact on everyone. As for me, I have a mission and objective. It includes a specific passage from James, 2:14-18:

What use is it, my bretheren, if a man says he has faith, but he has no works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, and one of you says to them "Go in peace, be warmed and be filled" and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that? Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself. But someone may well say "You have faith, and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works".

I have much to do.

I pray that God will bless all who have been reading this blog, and especially my brothers and sisters in Africa.