Although Gary & I have had the opportunity to travel around the world and have seen many contrasts of life, I have never actual done an officially called “Mission Trip” – God recently provided me that wonderful opportunity and what follows over the next several writings is a summary of my trip to Mbita in Kenya, Africa. Dates from June 18 – July 3, 2007. For those who may be new to reading my reports, I try to include links and photo’s so that as parents you can use this as a tool to introduce your children to different parts of the world – using this as an educational tool as well. :) Learning can be so much fun and exploring God’s creation gives us a greater appreciation of Who He is. Hope you enjoy the journey as much as I did in taking it.

Monday June 18th: Around 11 a.m. our Team of 14 bid farewell to family and friends at the Charleston airport for our 12 p.m. flight to Detroit. Between us all we had 28 checked bags full of teaching supplies and those liquids we couldn’t carry on board and then 14 carry ons that also had to be ‘checked’ plane side. Along with all the others boarding the flight that day in a relatively small aircraft – we were delayed about 45 min. because it became necessary to unload and re-load all the baggage so it would fit. Could it have been those 42 bags we all brought? Anyway we did make it to Detroit in time to make our connection to Amsterdam arriving there early Tuesday morning, June 19th. We had ample time to have a Nile Riverwonderful cup of coffee before boarding our 8 hour flight to Nairobi. After an uneventful flight over a good portion of the African Continent with a great view of the Nile River we and landed in Nairobi, Kenya, Africa Tuesday night June 19th around 7 p.m. Tired but glad to be at least closer to our destination. Given the hour, arrangements were made for us to spend the night at a ’safe place’ – can’t actually remember who ran it, but was certainly not the Marriott and we’re not sure how ’safe’ it was but will leave it there……..

Kenya Report – Part II