Plane friends etc

The first part of this post seems more like notes, which in fact it really is.  I had to record in "notes" throughout the time in Africa since I couldn't get on line to record my growth through Africa.

This is the next to last post I plan to record.  I hope those of you who have read these will email me at vvickery@gmail.com and give me your impressions.  If I can speak to some Sunday School class, or if you would like to meet James Oonyu from Uganda November 8-15, please let us know.

Contact Karen at admin@eafc.net to get on the schedule.  I really, really hope you will.  If so, the time I've spent on this exercise will have been time well spent.

I DO want God to be glorified through these efforts and for benefit to come in the lives of those who read them.

Plane friends
Aaron Wible from Fort Worth. Goes to Univ of Okla and wad on the plane with us from London to Dallas.  His team had been in South Africa.
Melissa Owen is his mother, Cindy and Susan are his aunts. Susan is married to AW Greer, Stacey's Dad ( who was in school with our daughter Susan)
His mother and aunts went went to Prep
His mother is 54.  You learn a lit on a nine plus hour flight home.

Chase is from Shreveport. Goes to Dallas Baptist but went to Louisiana Tech. On this trip he was in Sierra Leone when we were

Alfonzo and Rocio sat by me.  They Are from Guadalajara, Mexico. We had fun becoming friends with our fragmented knowledge of each others' language.

These trips don't end when you leave the countries.  There are opportunities to bumble with your Spanish, write on a napkin in an attempt to share the Gospel. There is sharing of information with other missionaries, a team of 12 from the University of Oklahoma. These are sharp committed young people.  Their church is a part of the Antioch Movement that is worldwide, seeking to expand in the 10/40 window. I will have to look them up.  This team has been in Cape Town and even worshipped yesterday in Tim Sprowson's church, His People.  ( Tim's parents live in Malawi and are good friends of ours) Aaron has close family in Jackson.  Chase joined our discussion and the two of them realized they too had friends in common.  Chase had been 2 weeks in Sierra Leone, church planting and teaching the people to grow a plant rimona, ( I am sure I have misspelled this)  supposed to be a super food for nutrition. 

 Once again Peggy found someone else interested in knowing more about her worm vermacomposting.  I think I too could do this, will try anyway.

I have also talked with young communications majors,  these young people are really a quality group.

I have stayed busy all day, and yet the hours creep by. Three hours til Dallas, 2  1/2 waiting in Dallas, and one hour home.  But once we stop in Dallas, we are on US soil and it feels good.  Going through customs can be a bit of a hassle, but all in all we feel the wind at our back by then.

Time will tell whether meaningful relationships develop from random conversations.  Maybe we are to all remain passing blurring memories in each others' minds, but maybe, just maybe God has something else in mind.  Especially I would love to see that with Alfonzo and  Rocio.  

PS. Alfonzo told me there is place on the Internet that translates for you, and sure enough I found it and have emailed him.

PSS. I only thought 2 1/2 hours, then a brief layover, and a one hour flight home.
" My ways are not your ways, says the  Lord". 
Now, however I am home and will continue to process this incredible experience .