Heading Home

This is the view outside our hotel room. I’ve looked at that tall unfinished cement building this week and wondered why it was never completed. I wonder also about those who live in the homes below and their unfinished dreams. It breaks my heart as we get ready to leave, knowing there are so many more who need our help. But for today, God has asked us to be part of one mother’s dream to give her daughter a hope and future with a family who would love her and take care of her in a way she never could. I can’t wait to tell you more about her story.

We are getting ready to leave for the airport now. Just in case you want to know where we’ll be for the next 24-48 hours, here is our itenerary:

Saturday (Ethiopia)
Leave: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia @ 1:35am – 7 hour flight
Arrive: Frankfurt, Germany @ 7:35am – 6 hour layover
Leave: Frankfurt, Germany @ 1:15pm – 7 hour flight

Arrive: Wash-DC @ 3:45pm – go through customs

UPDATE: Leave: Wash-DC @ Charlotte at 9:50pm which puts us home by midnight we hope!
flight delayed getting here so we missed the flight to Charlotte at 5:05pm

Saturday (Charlotte)
Arrive: Charlotte @ 11:28pm (United 7261)

Andrew just asked if we could all pray together. It was so precious! Then when we were done he asked me to email and blog and facebook our friends to ask them to pray. I think he’s a little anxious about this very long part of our journey to get home, and he’s concerned Aster will be crying. Right now she is sound asleep and hopefully she will be for a while.

We’d all treasure your prayers. My biggest concern is our 6 hour layover (can’t leave the airport because we don’t have visas for Germany) so we are praying God will bless us with something really good that helps us pass the time – like sleep, a movie, good food.

This has been an amazing and faith stretching yet God revealing week. I can’t wait to write and share with you all of the things God did and tell you about all of the people we met. We prayed we would see Jesus in Ethiopia and we definitely did!!!