For those of you who are detail oriented (like me)...
I leave Charlotte at 605 AM on Friday (pray for poor Cindy driving me to the airport at 430 AM!) I meet up with the other four in the team at Dulles, then we have a 12.5-hour flight to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Unfortunately, I won't have time there to visit so many dear friends! Another 4-hour flight takes us to Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi. We'll arrive at 1220 PM Saturday local time (620 AM EDT).
We'll be staying in a guest house at the African Bible College in Lilongwe. Sounds like a beautiful campus. We'll have the remainder of the weekend to rest, worship, and prepare for the first day of training on Monday morning at 830! We expect 20 participants, who we think will all be community workers with our partner, Live, Love Malawi (check out their website or their Facebook page.) The training schedule is very tentative, particularly because this curriculum is brand new. We're scheduled to run from 830-430 everyday, and we hope to have dinner with the participants most nights, which will be a great opportunity to develop relationships. We should wrap up the training by Wednesday 8/27 or Thursday 8/28.
Hopefully we'll have time for a little R&R Thursday night, then we're back on a plane Friday at 110 PM local time (710 AM EDT). Unfortunately, my return connections are horrendous, so I don't arrive back in Charlotte until 630 PM on Saturday 8/30 - almost 36 hours later!?!
Our team has been reviewing the new curriculum in preparation, and we have each been assigned the lessons we will facilitate. I'm really excited about a couple of the lessons I'm doing, and will share about the experience after I return - no matter how it goes!
Be on the lookout for another post before I leave, as I have some pre-trip thoughts that I want to share - then I probably will not have the opportunity until after I return. I'll try to do a quick Facebook status and/or email update once in a while. Thanks for your prayers!
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