Sunday-Calm before the Storm

Well, the rest of the team arrived last night, tired of travel. Unfortunately, their luggage did not. A delay of the Northwest flight out of Seattle made the connection in Amsterdam very tight. They made the flight, but their luggage did not. This all becomes very complicated, since they changed carriers and tickets in Istanbul.

The bottom line is that their luggage will not arrive in Antalya until 1:30am Monday morning (they arrived Saturday night) and we have to go to the airport to pick it up. They have been very good about it (better than I would have been), but I feel for them. I’ll head to the airport at 5:30am tomorrow to pick it up for them.

We went to the Antalya Union Church this morning, an English language church here. After, we went to lunch with Ben and Verna King for an orientation meeting.

After showing the next pictures, I don’t imagine I’ll have a hard time getting a team together in the future. This is where we had lunch.

This is us in front of the ancient Attilia harbor, the harbor Paul and Barnabas used on their first journey (perhaps others too).




We start tomorrow morning with the kids at Kepez and will finish our planning for day one tonight. Everyone is excited and a bit worried. Verna’s advice has been just to enjoy and love the kids. Keep us in your prayers—this is a new experience for us all.