Less Than 3 Weeks!!!!!

Hello Friends!

It hit all of us that by this time in 3 weeks, we'll be in South Africa! Time is flying by so fast!

On July 11, we all went on a little adventure that Susan and Danielle planned for some team bonding. It was a surprise for half the team that we would be taking public transit to LA! Most of us attended first service at Newsong when Susan texted us all the address of where to meet.


It was the train station. Upon getting there, we got the schedule of the different forms of public transit we would be taking, only to have to throw it all out because the train was delayed by 30 minutes!


We ended up taking train, metro, and bus to get to our secret location, Addis, an Ethiopian restaurant! We got there around 2:30, so we were pretty hungry and ordered way too much food, but it was all very delicious :)

Trying to get back home was very fun... we missed the 4 pm train so we waited for the 5 only to find out that too was delayed until 6:15! So lots of waiting and talking happened. All in all, a tiring day but it was great getting to spend time with each other. Definitely previewed us all to what our 21 hr flight is going to be like!

This past Sunday we had our weekly meeting sans Danielle, Susan, and Tyler :( They were greatly missed! Janet was gracious to bring us yummy Maggianos pasta and salad as well as delicious cookies. Peter led us in our continued reading of The Hole in Our Gospel. We had a good discussion on the poor and how the church responds as well as what God wants from us. We also took a time to write out 5 things that we were thankful for and it was cool to hear what we each wrote. We have a very gracious God who has blessed us all tremendously! Janet and Dianne shared their testimonies with us, thanks guys for opening up about your lives!

Our most urgent prayer request is for God to provide for the team financially, but we are getting closer to reaching our goal! Even though only 9 of us are physically going, we know we have so many of you who are the ones sending us there.

Thank you all for your love and support!!

Jen