my passport arrived today!

i know, it's been a bit since you heard from me.  to be honest, last week was not spent thinking about kenya... a bit of a busy week on the home front.  today, i went out to my mailbox to find my passport :)  now, i am thinking about kenya again!!!

we had our meeting week b4 last with our team... 7 out of the 9 of us were there.  we got to see a more extended version of a video they have on 410's website, so that was nice.  crazy to think we could be in that video 66 days from now.  woo hoo!  we have a great team of us going.  we are actually meeting again this week and hopefully will be getting a bit more info to take home with us to read.  we still do not know exactly what we will be doing and won't until june.  they say that each 410 bridge mission trip will have its own unique schedule of work, events and activities as the needs of the 410 bridge communities vary from village to village.  one thing they do have in common though is building a bridge ~ not in the physical sense~ but a personal one through establishing relationships between our team and the kenyans we will be serving.  

i have been on several missions trips in the past.  the last one was in 1999 to romania.  i went with our local christian radio station, 91.9.  i do remember that flight being long... but not quite sure if it was around 18 hours in the air!!!!  that is what they say our flight will be.  almost a whole day there in the air and on the way back.  airplanes are not my favorite things... especially for that long!!  that could definitely be a prayer request for me.

we have come up with several fundraisers.... 

* our biggest one will be on saturday, june 6th.  we will be holding a huge yard sale... with food.  it will be a church wide missions event.  we have several teams departing this summer so the proceeds will be pooled together and split up.  we have a youth team headed out somewhere's (i say that because it was supposed to be to mexico... but i believe they are in the process of changing that one) and one to india and then ours to kenya.  so, if any of you readers have things you would like to depart with... keep hold on them and i will tell you what you can do with them soon.  ask friends and neighbors for their "junk" too :)  it will all be going to a great cause!!!!  

* we are also selling bruster's coupon books!  for just $10 you get $40 dollars worth of coupons.  just ask me if you would like one or two of them :)  we will also have them at the garage sale.

* photo shoot~  emma (one of my team members) takes family and children's portraits.  if you and your family need some awesome family or individual pictures taken... tell me and i can help you book a photo shoot with emma.  she charges $100~ with a 50/50 cut.  she gets half and i would get half for finding someone as well as helping her during the shoot.  since all of the money will go directly to sponsor us towards africa, it can be made out to Weddington Community Church!!!  

let me know if you can help us out with any of the above fundraisers :)  that would be awesome!