In Washington DC

We got an early morning start. Shuttle van picked us up at 4am! And guess who was on the van with us - Dale and Carol Schlack. Small world.

We are in DC right now. In fact I (Brian) had an opportunity to meet the man (Obama) while here. And you can see Palin lurking in the background.

We hit the flight to Addis Ababa at 8:30pm Eastern Time. Then we are in for a 16 hour flight. We spend the night in Addis before heading into Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi.

Denise and I were praying together last night. Almost 10 years ago, I was scheduled to go to India to teach pastors. I was scheduled to depart in October 2001. You can do the math. 9/11 hit and grounded many international flights. The trip was scrubbed. Now here these years later, God has not forgotten that desire of my heart. The opportunity to teach less fortunate pastors has arisen again.

Rich and Marla are busy working on their script for the puppet ministry. They are trying to memorize a lot of the puppets' lines so that they can give a good example of what this ministry can be. They will be teaching that session on puppetry in English.

Our sign says "Africa or Bust." We're headed for Ethiopia first.