I hit "ENTER"

Okay, this morning (1/1/08) I did it......I hit "ENTER". It is always a little scary to buy 5 airplane tickets over the internet and get to the point where you have to hit ENTER. Not because we have any misgivings about confirming our trip......it's just that that's a lot of money and I triple-checked everything to make sure the dates/times/cities were correct!

So........we now have confirmed plane reservations for our trip to Honduras. We will fly out of Indy on Sat Feb 16 and arrive in Tegucigalpa that same day at 3:47pm. We will return on Thursday April 3 departing from San Pedro Sula at 11:49am and arriving in Indy at 10:02pm. Flights both ways connect in Houston with plenty of layover time for customs, bag transfers, etc.

Hard to imagine that in less than 7 weeks we will be in Honduras. As I sit here on New Year's Day it is snowing outside! Today's high temp in Tegucigalpa is 74 degrees!

So far it still looks like we will be spending much of our time in Talanga with the kids at Proyecto Manuelito....so that's good to know! We are really looking forward to it.

Specific prayer requests :

1) That Ellen will have great success working with the public schools (Alex, Nate) to get their assignments in advance so they don't lose any ground during our trip. The kids will spend time each day on school work.
2) That our finances/fundraising will all work out okay.
3) That as we work through the logistics in the next 6 weeks we can avoid too much stress and keep the real reason for this trip in the forefront - glorifying God.
4) That everything will be okay at work while we are gone.
5) That our kids will continue to have positive attitudes about this trip (they are doing great so far!)
6) That through our preparations we will show God's light to others who might be moved to get in to mission work locally, nationally, or internationally.