Kenya, Confirmed

Some of this may be a repeat but I wanted to get it all out in a post...

 

So last week I sent a check for my flight for Africa and then got word from Tonya, the girl I was planning to spend my second week with that she wouldn't be there then. What?!?! What in the world was I going to do in Africa for week two? I wanted to panic, and well, I did a little, but I knew that God had something else planned and I just had to trust that He would reveal it to me. I had a few other contacts in Uganda, none that I knew well, but great ministries I would love to work with, but God just didn't give me a peace about contacting them. I waited and I prayed.

 

Rewind to two Sundays ago during church a video played showing pictures of all of Brook Hills missionaries and we prayed for them. I was in all three services so I saw this three times. A picture of a family I helped with their taxes last year came up. I was convicted when I saw their picture because I had not been praying for this week family. They are serving in Kenya with three young children. They NEEDED prayer! I contacted him the next day about helping with their taxes again and they were very grateful for my help again. A few days later is when my original Uganda plans fell through. The next day God laid on my heart to come to them. They don't know me. I don't know them. (Other than tax related correspondence). But I wanted to be obedient so I contacted them about coming.

 

Several days later (felt like eternity to someone who likes to plan every minute of her life) they responded that they would love for me to come for a visit. They said that I didn't need a specific "reason" but that a visit would be great. Thankfully I learned from JT Turner how to be flexible on the mission field. As a planner I really want to know what I will be doing in Kenya but that's not always how God works. He wants us to be open to whatever comes our way. In Guatemala that meant going to Jerusalem instead of Tabitha House one day and working construction in the dump In Africa, who knows what He will want me to do.

 

I contacted the travel agent about changing my flight and found out she had already booked my flight to and from Uganda. Oh no! I had no idea she had booked it, as the $1,800 was still in my checking out! So, basically I had to pay $100 to change my departure flight from Entebee to Nairobi. This isn't terrible news, though, because my original return flight required an overnight stay at Heathrow Airport which would run me between $120-$150 plus food (depending on currency conversion). Now that I will be leaving from Nairobi I will still go through Heathrow but no overnight stay. Praise the Lord! So the only real added expense is my flight from Entebbe to Nairobi. This will be $355. I have not booked this flight yet but will in the next week or so. I will be staying with the family so I won't have any "guesthouse" or hotel expenses. I will give both "hosts" money to cover my room and board, though.

 

Sorry for the novel. I just wanted to give the full story. More to come...