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Twas the night before...

This is it. In just about 13 hours, our team's flight will be taking off from RDU headed to South Africa. It is odd, but I feel a complete sense of calm. Don't get me wrong, I am definitely excited about this trip, but as far as nervousness... I don't feel any. It is sort of like I told our Pastor tonight after Bible study, I feel like I am getting up tomorrow to go to work just like I would any other day, it is just that tomorrow instead of going to work in Buies Creek or Roseboro, I will be going to Cape Town. That sort of feeling lets me know that I am definitely doing what God wants me to.

Our trip to South Africa will neither be a short one or a direct one. Our flight leaves RDU and then heads to Boston where we have a short layover before hopping the next plan for a six and a half hour flight to Amsterdam. Once we make it to Amsterdam, its a four layover before taking the final grueling ten and a half hour flight to Cape Town. We leave Thursday at 1 PM and arrive in Cape Town on Friday night at 9 (there time, 3 PM here). So yes, round trip it takes a little over 24 hours, but man will it be worth it.
For those of you who know me, you know that I am a big guy, so being comfortable on these plan rides will be one of my biggest challenges on this trip for sure, but it is going to be so worth it when our team finally gets there.

As I sit at my desk here in my house (soon to be former house as I have to move out two days after we return from South Africa), I am attempting to not get to caught up in the excitement of the traveling, and focus more on the people that I will meet there. The individuals whom I will come into contact with, and as I try to imagine their faces, I attempt to see hope in their eyes. Hope that only comes from the knowledge of who Jesus Christ is, and what he has done for them and for me. I have seen God do some crazy big things throughout my life, and I am expecting nothing less on this trip. Yet even if it doesn't happen on this trip that is okay because we aren't called to do "big things", just to simply follow God wherever he leads us. That is what I and the rest of our team from Campbell are doing on this trip, following the call he has given to each of us, going to serve the people of Cape Town, and leaving the "big things" up to him.

Be Blessed!

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