Our family's heart is filled with the hope of our calling in Christ Jesus and we want to share! Our home town and now Hope Clinic is where we are called. We want to share our adventure with you!

Monday, April 21, 2014

FOUR DAYS AND COUNTING!!!

Many hands make light work!  We gathered as a team last night to pack our 14 bags (50# each) full of medical supplies and goody bags and soccer balls for kiddos we meet. Sutures, laparascopic "accessories" to go with all the equipment that's waiting there for us, medications, gloves, and an almost immeasurable amount of other medical items were packed in these 14 bags.  How we will wrangle them, keep account of them all, get them ALL up on top of a land cruiser for our 9 hour drive from Liberia to Guinea is yet to be seen...definitely an item on our prayer list!



Lots of medication, much of it donated by Medical Teams International, as well as by YOU...those who gave financially to our trip were a part of enabling us to buy even more supplies that Hope Clinic needs!  Thank you!

Weighing in at 50.87 lbs, and hoping they don't charge us for the few extra ounces...we squeezed every ounce possibly into those bags!


We have a total of 11 bags like this...


and 3 bins like this...plus we each have a carry on and a back pack to take on the plane.  We are locked and loaded!

And...Rachel is on the mend!  For those of you who don't know, Rachel (our 15 year old team member) had a burst appendix last week!  She is a week post op and we are continually praying that she does not experience any secondary infections so that we can ALL travel together.  Another matter of prayer.  We are grateful this didn't happen during our 11 hour plane ride!

So here are the details for this week...
We leave The Dalles this Friday at 7:30 am to go to PDX.  We fly out at 11:45 am to Detroit, then to Paris, then to Monrovia, Liberia.  We will spend the night there at a hospital compound and then drive the 9 hours or so to Hope the next day.  All together approximately 36 hours of travel time!

Pray for:
1) safe and seamless travel
2) rest
3) healing for Rachel
4) calming of any fears
5) safety from ebola!
6) protection for all the baggage, ease through customs
7) opportunities to share Christ even as we travel
8) our friends at Hope as they prepare for our arrival
9) the people of Guinea that we will have the pleasure of serving and loving once we arrive
10) our family members we are leaving behind, for comfort for us all.

WE ARE ALL VERY EXCITED! THANK YOU FOR JOINING IN OUR ADVENTURE!
We'll keep you as posted as we can!
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6 comments:

  1. Grandma MathisenApril 21, 2014 at 9:24 PM

    Praying for the whole team, as you obey the call to go and serve Him and the people of Guinea. May your joy be full because of Jesus and all He has done for us! Love you very much!

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  2. UnknownApril 22, 2014 at 9:34 AM

    What a wonderful mission Dawn! I will be praying for you...asking the Lord to provided wherever you need it! God Bless your work! Jenell

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  3. UnknownApril 24, 2014 at 2:03 PM

    If Nothing else, you guys are going to get buff toting around all those huge bags of medical supplies. Good thing you have Krae going, if Mattie had to carry those you would never get there. Love you guys. Viao Con Dios my friends.

    Ryan

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  4. judiaroseApril 26, 2014 at 5:17 PM

    Hi, all, glad to hear you made it to Liberia safely. About Kels games today. Lost both. First game Kel had first hit in 2nd inning and played very well. Good hitting by him and good throws to 2nd for outs. Lost 9-5. Second game they kept up with them but lost 6-3. I think we should have won this one. Varsity won both of theirs. Miss you all. Love Gma

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  5. judiaroseApril 27, 2014 at 7:26 AM

    Hi, again, not sure if Cade's team was playing or if it was all stars but they won both their games on Sat. am.

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  6. SivadderfMay 3, 2014 at 11:04 AM

    I remember how absolutly wrong the royal treatment felt. I finally had to accept it as generally unchangable and trust the Holy Spirit to communicate my great joy in serving people that have so llittle. Try to focus on God's great process of equalization -the living love that is the "fruit" gift that flows from the indwelling of the Spirit. I envy you all and thank God that you are walking right down the middle of His perfect will,.What joy unspeakable!
    Fred

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