Hi Everybody!
Here are a couple of updates. The first I wrote yesterday when we first arrived:
Saturday AM (8.11.2007)
Well...40 hours later and we're here in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. It's about noon (we're 9 hours ahead of you) and most or the team is resting and in about half an hour we'll be having lunch together. It's been a long, tiring journey to get here but God has been so good to us. All our airline connections, accommodations have gone well (Kenya Airways has misplaced Dan's luggage so prayers for that would be appreciated). Paul, Bridget and I went to see Josh McPaul during our layover in London. Josh is the college pastor at First Pres and contracted malaria while he and his team of college students were in Uganda for 6 weeks and had to be hospitalized while he was in London on his way home. Josh is rapidly improving and I hope he will be on his way home in the next few days. We're all taking our malaria pills (asking each other, "Did you take it?" every morning) and will be covering ourselves in DEET. We haven't seen many mosquitos here in Rwanda. We're off to Goma midday on Sunday.
Thanks for your prayers!
Tim
Sunday AM (8.12.2007)
I'm sitting with our team at breakfast at the Gorilla Hotel in Kigali. It looks like everyone (including me) had a great night's sleep! It was hilarious at dinner last night. I watched people's eyes glaze over as each of us "hit the wall" of tiredness. When we got back to the hotel here in Kigali I think everyone immediately went to bed and slept a good 9 hours. We're off to see the Genocide museum here in Kigali that tells the horrendous story of the massacre that took place in Rwanda in 1994. Then were off to Goma (by van) where we'll be staying for the next 9 days. I'm really excited to get to Congo and begin the work we've been called here to do. I'm sure the main "work" that will be done will take place in us. Please pray for that and that God would help us make connections with the people of Goma.
Thanks again for your continuing love and support. It means everything to us.
Grace and peace,
Tim, Bridget, Dan, Naomi, Ryan, Mellisa, Paul, Sarah, Timo
Here are a couple of updates. The first I wrote yesterday when we first arrived:
Saturday AM (8.11.2007)
Well...40 hours later and we're here in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. It's about noon (we're 9 hours ahead of you) and most or the team is resting and in about half an hour we'll be having lunch together. It's been a long, tiring journey to get here but God has been so good to us. All our airline connections, accommodations have gone well (Kenya Airways has misplaced Dan's luggage so prayers for that would be appreciated). Paul, Bridget and I went to see Josh McPaul during our layover in London. Josh is the college pastor at First Pres and contracted malaria while he and his team of college students were in Uganda for 6 weeks and had to be hospitalized while he was in London on his way home. Josh is rapidly improving and I hope he will be on his way home in the next few days. We're all taking our malaria pills (asking each other, "Did you take it?" every morning) and will be covering ourselves in DEET. We haven't seen many mosquitos here in Rwanda. We're off to Goma midday on Sunday.
Thanks for your prayers!
Tim
Sunday AM (8.12.2007)
I'm sitting with our team at breakfast at the Gorilla Hotel in Kigali. It looks like everyone (including me) had a great night's sleep! It was hilarious at dinner last night. I watched people's eyes glaze over as each of us "hit the wall" of tiredness. When we got back to the hotel here in Kigali I think everyone immediately went to bed and slept a good 9 hours. We're off to see the Genocide museum here in Kigali that tells the horrendous story of the massacre that took place in Rwanda in 1994. Then were off to Goma (by van) where we'll be staying for the next 9 days. I'm really excited to get to Congo and begin the work we've been called here to do. I'm sure the main "work" that will be done will take place in us. Please pray for that and that God would help us make connections with the people of Goma.
Thanks again for your continuing love and support. It means everything to us.
Grace and peace,
Tim, Bridget, Dan, Naomi, Ryan, Mellisa, Paul, Sarah, Timo
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