June 26 and 27

Tuesday, June 26th,Wednesday, June 27th and Thursday June 28th
Day of Travel

Praise the Living Lord! Our strength comes from Him. As I write this it is 7:00 a.m. Kansas City time and we are all sitting in the Denver airport. Yes, I said Denver.

Tuesday we were all up early, we ate breakfast, checked out of the hotel and went to the market to shop. It took us 2 hours to get to the market as the traffic was awful, and we got to shop for 45 minutes. Then we went back to the hotel to get our luggage and for a final interview from a newspaper called “This Day” . We said our farewells to all even the hotel staff, which we grew to love. Then we all piled into the cars and headed to the airport. Wow, talk about traffic to get there and when we arrived at the airport it was wall to wall people and cars. I have never seen anything like it. We got to the airport to check in and Pastor John and the security got us through customs, and we praise God for them helping us. It was very overwhelming. After we got through customs we went back outside for farewells to all of the leaders and pastors who had come to say good bye and pray for us. It was very touching. We established some great friendships with them. Then they took us through the crowds and we hugged and kissed Pastor John, Lizzie, Bee, Grace, Janet, Peter, Ade and the Elder goodbye. We will miss them all. They were all so wonderful to us and we all hope that we can someday welcome them to the states in the same manner of hospitality. Then we left them and went on to stand in the long line of 500+ people that were loading on the plane. Unbelievable!!!!!!! So we are on our way at 9:50 p.m. their time and 3:50 a.m. our time. We get to Amsterdam and get on our plane to fly to the states and then we arrive in Detroit and our flights are all cancelled due to weather and no one to fly the planes. So we sit in Detroit and wait. Finally last night after not having no sleep for 48 hours we fly into Denver and we are late catching our flight to home. So we all slept on the floor in the Denver airport and now we leave this morning Thursday at 6:55 A.M. and hopefully we will be home soon. We are all exhausted but good in spirit. We look forward to seeing you all soon so we can tell you all of the stories and you can see the sights. God Bless and keep looking up.

In His Love,
Jacki and all,