And They're Off!!!

Hello Everyone, this is Randi. Shane was not able to get online this evening so he asked me to tell you about today's adventures.

First, I have to go back a couple of days. One of the members of the Colombia team, Andrea Holguin, was in a terrible car accident on her way home from El Paso the day before the trip. Her car was totaled, but praise God, she and everyone in her car was fine. She barely made it back in time to go on the mission trip...but we were able to stop by her house in Fowler to pick her up, then drop her off at her house in Haviland (where she attends Barclay College) to get the rest of her things.

We left Fowler at 1:00, then left Haviland at about 2:30. This still gave us plenty of time to be at the airport by 4:30 for a 5:55pm departure. As you know, Hurricane Alex has been causing some trouble in the gulf. When we arrived at the airport at 4:30 we discovered the 5:55 flight, as well as every other flight to Houston, had been canceled. The team began to wonder what they would do in Wichita with 100 lbs of luggage and no where to go. As Dennis talked to the people at the ticket counter, they found there was ONE more flight to Houston that had been delayed since 10am. It was ready to leave at 5:00 (it was 4:45 by this time) and there were 12 seats left!! The 11 members of our team checked in at record speed, chose one of their two check in bags to keep (this small plane did not have enough room for all the luggage) and they RAN to the gate. They all made it on the last plane to Houston.

It is amazing how God worked everything out perfectly. Unfortunately we have 10 bags of donations that will need to be donated elsewhere, but the team is on it's way. Thank you for praying, and please continue to do so. It seems that the devil is throwing darts at this mission team left and right, but it hasn't stopped them yet. I pray that God's will be done and that His Kingdom will grow in the next 10 days!!

~Randi