Crunch time!

Well, its less than a week before I travel to Paris and then Bangui, Central African Republic for my first ever mission trip. This is on behalf of Integrated Community Development International, a non-denominational ministry involved in well-drilling, orphan care, and education in the Central African Repuplic. I plan to journal the trip on this blog providing I have occasional internet access in Bangui. We will be staying at a guest house and working on finishing out the first building of the orphan care center in the ICDI facility. Hopefully, there will be other outreach activities we can be involved in during this time. Other than myself, there will be my good friend Vernie Abbitt, Ray Hottle, Karl Kaylor, and Eric Yordy. I'm not sure who from ICDI will be there.

We leave on Friday, October 21 and fly to Paris where we spend the day Saturday. We then fly to Bangui Saturday night arriving in the morning Sunday October 23.

At the end of the two weeks in Bangui, we all travel back to Paris November 6. While the rest of the guys enjoy a couple of free days in Paris, I will be flying to Zurich for an HPCP workshop the week of November 7-11. I fly back via Paris on November 12. That puts me back in Phoenix late in the evening Saturday November 12.

Unfortunately, when I received the plane tickets for the trip yesterday, they did not reflect changes made to accomidate my trip to Zurich. I quickly sent an email to the travel agent and he responded quickly. They will be on this first thing tomorrow morning.

Feel free to drop me a note on this blog or email me at ljoh3106@cox.net .