Colombia

Ah how cute












Caty and another son












Jeremy and lina and cindy














Quite a group

Waiting outside Monteria airport

Great trip

Well we had a wonderful time at the beach it was fun and relaxing and the food was amazing. We couldn't go to EnJambre today because it was a Holiday it was a celebration of Peter and Paul the Saints not the Beetles. I think I speak for all of us when I say we can't wait for tues. when we get to go to Minister to the people of EnJambre. The relaxing is fun but the reason we came is to serve the people so we are ready to get started.
thank you for your prayers
God Bless,
Shane

we are here

we have been here all day and it has been wonderful we are all staying at the same house down town this year. That is great for the group meeting together but the problem is we have no WiFi so we are going to have to search for places each day that we can get on-line. Our reception from the people here has been amazing visited EnJambre today and the building looks great and it was great to see the children. Tomorrow they are taking us to the beach. We are looking forward to that but we are also looking forward to getting started with our work in EnJambre. We feel blessed to be here. We hope you will pray with us.
thanks, God Bless,
Shane

we are here

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

Preparing to Leave

Yahoooooooo, its time to get the final packing done, time to head to the Church to load my stuff and everyone elses junk!!!! I think we will have 7-8 hugh bags of donated clothes that we are taking, THANK YOU everyone who dontaed these will be going to a great cause. Please be praying for our trip. We fly out of Wichita tonight at 6 through Houston then at midnight we fly all night to Bogota, change planes and will be in Monteria by 9 am sat. Cant wait we will see all our friends and especially the kids in EnJambre by 2 pm tomorrow afternoon. Please be praying for Andrea as Shane posted earlier.

Thanks Dennis

Pre trip prayer

One of the members of our trip (Andrea) was in a car accident she is fine but the accident totaled her car. She is now going to have to decide whether she can go on the trip to Colombia. please be praying for her wisdom in this decision. We would love to have her go because she is very familiar with the area because she spent a whole summer there, and she also serves as one of our interpeters. We'll let you know how it turns out.
God Bless,
Shane