"Flight of Destiny"

Praise the Lord!  The team has arrived safely in the Dominican Republic, and it has been our smoothest trip to date.  

Last night, family and friends from the church gathered to send off the team with prayer and praise.  After a brief night's sleep at the church, we set off for the Philadelphia airport at 3:30am.  God cleared a path ahead of us in an incredible way with a wonderful sister in Christ at Delta Airlines.  Lurene, our new friend, opened up a special section to check in our entire team and we arrived at the gate just in time to board our first flight.  Both our flights today were uneventful and we arrived in Atlanta as well as Santo Domingo on schedule with all luggage in hand.  During our flights, the team caught up on sleep and stuffed themselves with tiny airline snacks.  Cameron has logged the most hours of shut eye so far and and Kai has set a high academic standard by completing a large chunk of her summer reading on the flights.  

We were not the only ones sporting matching mission trip shirts in the airport today.  In fact, there were four teams headed to do the Lord's work on our flight to Santo Domingo.  Diego, who leads our work projects here in Juan Thomas, referred to our plane ride as a "flight of destiny."  Since Adam, Jeremy, and Tiffany all spent years in the South, they quickly lapsed into southern drawls when speaking with the teams from Mississippi and Georgia. 

Jeremy is leading our team through 1 John this week and we'd love it if you could read along with us as you pray.  Today we read 1 John 1:1-10 and we reflected on the importance of recognizing our sin in order to fully appreciate what Christ has done on our behalf.  

We are so grateful for the prayers covering our team, both those at home (special thanks to the parents on the morning conference calls!) and those here in Juan Thomas.  Our team plans to pray 'round the clock as we work.  We have been especially blessed by the beautiful examples of fervent prayer set by Miriam and Maria.

It has been a long day of travel, so we're heading to bed early.  Feel free to leave us comments and we'll be glad to share them with the team!  (Pictures coming soon.)

We wanted to end this blog post with an authentic Spanish send off.  Unfortunately, neither of us paid enough attention during our elementary Spanish classes, so... El Goodnighto!

--Written by Adam and Tiffany

P.S. We hoped to post this last night, but were unable to because of a power and generator outage.  Thanks for your patience.