North Africa Trip - Day Two

Mission trips always involve a little bit of adventure, and this trip has proved to be no exception! After a fairly uneventful day one, we landed in London's Heathrow airport behind schedule. Already having a tight connection flight, we hurried through the airport until Tim and Ben were met by some resistance at the security checkpoint (in all fairness, they both look like pretty shady characters). I rushed ahead to find our gate, which just happened to be a 15 minute BRISK walk away. By the time I arrived all the other passengers had boarded. I pled with the gate official to give us a bit more time as the three ladies in our group arrived. Finally, he told me that he was shutting the door in 60 seconds, and I had to decide if we were going or staying. I told the girls to go on ahead and told them if the guys weren't here in time we would catch the next flight to N. Africa...in 3 days! But fortunately they came running around the corner with only seconds to spare.

We arrived on time in NA with 10 of our 12 checked bags (not bad for this trip). We then rented an additional car and headed down the winding, treacherous, mountainous road to our missionaries house. This too was not short on adventure since the majority of the trip was in the dark of night and the natives are not great at sharing the narrow one-lane road.

However, all things considered we had a great trip out and look forward to resting horizontally tonight! We were greeted with homemade chicken noodle soup and brownies, and got to spend some fellowship time with our missionaries and their beautiful kids! The men are headed out on a 3 day hike in the morning, so I will not be blogging for a few days. The ladies will spend some time in the village meeting and fellowshipping with some of the friends our missionaries have been developing relationships with. We are looking forward to a great week in which we know God will use us to bring glory to his name! Please continue to lift us up daily as we seek to serve alongside our missionary friends in spreading the love of Christ in a dark part of the world!

-Craig