On Our Way!

Here we are in the Frankfurt airport! We are in the middle of a long layover...14 hours! The good news is that we only have 3 hours left before we depart for Dubai, the next stop on our long journey to Maputo. Thank you so much for all your prayers for our safety. (Please continue!) The boys, all three, are playing hacky-sack right now.

Thanks to Sally and David for taking us to the airport!

Note to the Book Babes: used the Starbucks card to send us off at the Portland Airport yesterday morning! Thank you!

Cathi

Von Voyage Prayer Send Off

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We were so blessed by the wonderful send off from our dear church family and friends. Wow!

The Mad Dash!

Dearest Friends:

The mad dash is on! We have six days left before our departure date. All of the loose ends are coming together, we have the "mock" packing of our bags scheduled, and our tickets in hand, visas, passports, and ipods almost uploaded. Now, we need to finish packing up the apartment, deliver our vehicles to their babysitters, and make a hotel reservation for our last days in Corvallis.

We have been overwhelmed by the out pouring of love by all of our friends and family. We are leaving Corvallis in that "party mode" that so typifies our lives. THANK YOU for your love and friendship! You will be in our thoughts and prayers.


Jerry

Book Babes

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My dear book loving friends gave me a Bon Voyage party. I will miss our meetings very much, but will attempt to keep up with the books being read!

Cathi

On the Countdown!

Here is the first post on our RTW (Round The World) blog. After a year and a half of planning, we are almost on our way. The house has been sold, our stuff put in storage, jobs finished up, the global contacts made, insurance acquired, our itinerary finalized (for the first half of the trip in any case.) As a family we will be maintaining two blogs, one regarding family happenings (this one) and the other one covering the progress on our non-profit organization (http://onbelayministries.blogspot.com/). Please leave comments regularly! We miss you all already and we haven't even left yet!

Here is our itinerary:

July 30 – August 21 MOZAMBIQUE Maputo (Christian Academy of Mozambique)
August 21 – September 7 SOUTH AFRICA Cape Town (YWAM Soccer)
September 7 – October 6 UGANDA Entebbe (Show Mercy International Orphanage)
October 6 – October 22 KENYA Mombasa (World Venture)
October 22 – November 18 KENYA Eldoret (Open Arms International Orphanage)
November 18 – Dec. 18 ITALY Rome (Team)
NETHERLANDS Amsterdam
GERMANY Ahrensburg
AUSTRIA
December 18 – Jan. 2, 2008 UNITED KINGDOM London
January 2 – February 1 MOROCCO Marakech (Set-up Medical Clinic)
February 1 – February 21 INDIA Pune (Deep Griha Society humanitarian aid)
February 21 – March 21 THAILAND Krabi (ESL Keera-pat International School)
March 21 – April 15 CHINA Chongqing, Beijing
April 15 – May 7 NEW ZEALAND Christchurch
May 7 – June 7 AUSTRALIA Melbourne (Kangaroo Grounds Building Project)
June 7 – July 31 PERU Lima
BOLIVIA
CHILE Santiago
July 31, 2008 USA Portland, OR