And Away We Go!

Tomorrow's the big day! Mom and I are leaving pretty early in the morning to head to airport (Buckner made arrangements to fly me to DFW for our orientation day).  I'll get to meet my teammates and go through training with the other summer interns....then on Friday, we will all disperse from DFW to our respective parts of the world. =) My team and I should reach Nairobi later in the evening on Saturday.

Once again, I want to say "Thank You." Thank YOU. If you are reading this, YOU are an intregal part of my GOing. Thank you for your prayerful, emotional, financial, and physical presence during all steps of this journey so far. Please continue to pray! For these first few days of mostly travel, I have some general prayer requests; I'm sure I will have more and more detailed requests after I reach Nairobi and tour the orphanage.

PRAY FOR:

• My Teammates (Melody, Kenda, Delaney) and myself: Immediate team bonding; Likeness of mind
• Physical safety
• Spiritual health
• Calm journey - meet all connecting flights without problems, no luggage mishaps, rest on the plane, preparation
• Prepare the hearts of the Kenyan children and adults with whom we will come in contact
• Spirit-controlled tongues - that we would boldly proclaim the Gospel; we would speak words of kindness and encouragement to each other

That's a good start! I'm hoping that when we arrive in Nairobi I will have the opportunity to update rather quickly.  If you are interested in following this journey as it occurs, you can either check this blog occasionally, or subscribe to it. (On the right sidebar, down towards the bottom of the page, there is a button that says "Subscribe". You can have the blog post sent to your Google Reader or other reader options.

The Intern day of rest is on Saturday, so it is most likely that I will update about once a week on Saturday. =)

Again, Thank YOU. God has blessed me so much. I cannot but hope to be a blessing to Kenya!

Love,

T