Well, the big day will be here tomorrow. Our team meets at FBC Port Neches at 11:30 am, then we load up and head to Bush Intercontinental for our afternoon flight to Lima- suprisingly enough, SE Texas Regional Airport is not an international airport and we have to leave from Houston :). We fly on Continental from Houston to Lima and usually arrive in Lima around 11:30 or so, then we have to wait in the Lima airport until the first LAN Peru flight out to Juliaca - we usually catch that flight around 5am. From Juliaca we take ground transportation - a bus or vans- farther up the mountains until we arrive in Ayaviri. I have some specific prayer requests for our travel -
1- that we will have safe travel in the air and on the ground
2- that we will not have any overweight luggage we are allowed one 50lb suitcase and one 20 lb suitcase
3- that ALL of our medicines and eye glasses and the dental equipment arrives in one piece and it all clears customs in Lima without any problems.
There is a 72 hour "juelga" or strike that has been called for a city in the same district the Ayaviri is in. A strike usually shuts down ground transportation. The strike started today, so it will probably not affect us getting from Juliaca to Ayaviri, however our Peruvian translators are supposed to meet us in Ayaviri on Friday and we need to pray that they will be able to travel and meet us.
Steve Travis, our team leader, also sent out a prayer request this afternoon that our prayer partners would pray for the people of Barrio Panamerica and Barrio Mariano Melgar. Pray that they would be receptive to hearing "The Story of God from Creation to Eternity", that they will be born again, desire to profess Jesus as Lord and be part of the body of Christ in a local church.
I should be able to post regular updates during our trip, there are several internet cafes near the hotel we are staying at.
Thanks again for your prayers. Our whole team appreciates it.
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