Well, I'm sitting at Melissa and Jolyn's house in Moshi, Tanzania right now. Two girls from Cali that are living here working with GCM. Moshi is at the base of Kilamanjaro and the view of the mountain is amazing today. It's still all like a dream. I thought once I got here it would all kinda hit me...but its still sureal. It took a looooong time to get here. With the traveling, layovers and delays it took about 48 hours. While we were waiting in for our plane to Tanzania I got to know this lady from Tokyo that works with World Vision. Her name is Mami. She had a pretty bad cold so I prayed for her and God totally healed her. It was awesome. We're running on very little sleep but we're all feelin great. We're staying at a nice little hostel next to the compound we came to check out. We had a great breakfast at a Lutheran hostal accross the street from where we're staying. The weather is beautiful. It's like low to mid 80's and sunny. The wildlife is amazing. The people are very nice. We'll be here for about 3 days while we handle our business. What we are going to encounter in Bungoma sounds like it won't be quite as nice as things are here. I'll see if I can track down a phone somewhere so I can give you a call Mom and Dad. I love you all. My sinus infection is better but I think my allergies are acting up which isn't helping things much. Thank you all for your prayers. God bless.

Greetings from Kenya...

We landed in Nairobi about 9am Sun, which would be 10pm Sat at home. We went to pick up our tickets to Tanzania and the guy said they are no good. Said we have to have a printed ticket or something. Jason was handling the mess while Nathan and I were getting to know some of the locals. Anyway we ended up having to pay for 3 more tickets which was a real bummer. Hopefully we'll be able to get a refund on the others. We're just killing some more time here in the Airport till out flight at 5pm. I've developed a horrible sinus infection during the trip so pray for that please. It's left my head spinnin a little. Forgot my usb in my bag so no pictures yet. Hopefully when we get to our next destination I can get a couple pics up.

Waiting...

Hey. So we've made it to London so far. Jason's got Wi-Fi here. I think its like 5pm. Nothing exciting happening so far. The plane ride was about 10 hours and wasn't too horrible. My back was killin me though. Well that's it. I could try and stretch this out with some embelished stories and witty banter but I'm gonna go walk around instead. Here's a couple of pics. Nevermind...I tried to upload something and I guess it didn't work. I not sure what the problem is because it's all in Dutch or something. Maybe next time.

Wednesday, Jan. 23rd

Well, I'm gonna give this a shot. I've never blogged before, so we'll see how this works out. I'll try to update this as much as possible, if at all possible. I don't know what's going to happen once we get there but it sounds like there will be internet cafes in the city (Nairobi I guess). There's only a trio of us going on this trip. One of the main purposes of the adventure is to lay some groundwork for a rescue center in Bungoma, Kenya that Global Children's Movement (http://globalchildrensmovement.org/) is going to build. As many of you know I've been waiting for this trip for a long time now. The Lord told me 2 1/2 years ago that I would be going Africa. Since then I've recieved so many words about what I'll be doing, where I'd be going and so much more. It's almost a little surreal now that its finally here. Lemme see...God said I'd be going to Kenya...(check)...and Tanzania...(check). He said that I would be building an orphanage and working with kids...(check and check). I'm going to have to review all the prophesy so I remember them all and recognize things when they come to pass. Please keep Jason, Nathan and I in your prayers. It sounds like Kenya isn't the safest place to be these days, unless God's got your back that is. Just ask the Lord, he tell you what to pray. Well, I've still got some stuff to do so I'll pop back in later...I hope.