Here I am sitting in a coffee shop at Heathrow Airport...we spent a good chunk of the day seeing London...we took the train downtown and took pictures at Buckingham Palace, seeing Big Ben and Westminster Abbey, and enjoyed a beautiful summer day in London...it was great to stretch the legs and walk!
Many students enjoyed fish and chips in a pub for lunch and now we are getting ready to jump on our flight to Lusaka, Zambia...traveling this far really isn't easy on you, but you have this sense that it is worth the feelings of fatigue and the long stretches of time to get to Africa and see a very different world and what God has called us to see and experience...
We will be on the next British Airways flight for over 10 hours...you can pray for the ability to sleep for long stretches of this flight and for students to feel well physically as we jump right into our Zambia experiences...Thursday in Zambia will be a full day, where we will learn about some extraordinary things being done in response to those suffering with AIDS with a US funded program called Rapids and we plan to play our first soccer match, tired legs and all...
We can't wait honestly to get to Africa...in many ways, the travel there is a pretty challenging part as expectations and nerves are real at this point...I am looking forward to seeing old friends when we arrive in the morning and being cared for and getting to know the stories and enter into the lives of our Zambian brothers and sisters...
We love you and miss you...your prayers are indeed needed and difference makers for us over the next 10 days...
For the 27 of us in jolly old England (28 when Trent meets us tomorrow in Lusaka!)
CHIP
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