God is Good!

THANK YOU to everyone who was praying for our team after learning that our return flight had been cancelled last week. Going into the weekend, things were not looking good for us as our travel agent was having a very difficult time getting in contact with Delta. When she finally did, they told her there was no more space left with their partner airlines. [Gulp]. Our choices at that time were to either change the dates of our trip, or start all over and end up paying a lot more money for new tickets...money that we really don't have! The latter option could have jeopardized the whole trip. [Double Gulp].

Needless to say, the team was praying hard, and many of you were praying with us over the weekend. Meanwhile, our travel agent brought in the big guns of her travel agency and their sales rep for Delta...a somewhat extraordinary measure. Late Monday afternoon, our prayers were answered when Joel and I received an email with a new itinerary on KLM...FREE OF CHARGE! And this itinerary is a beauty in comparison to the original one. Instead of being stuck on the same plane for 19 hours, we will instead fly 8 hours to Amsterdam, then another 8 hours to Chicago. And we actually arrive 10 minutes earlier than our original itinerary. We were elated to hear this news (I felt like the happy little elephants in the photo).

So again, thank you for your hear-felt prayers. This is yet again a firm reminder that God is Good and Sovereign over this team and everything that is thrown our way!