the calendar

Wanted to share with you all our schedule and a little more about some of the things on it. Here's the calendar, although I can guarantee that things won't pan out exactly the way we've planned them!

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
September 12	13	14	15 Leave Albuquerque	16 Arrive in Nairobi, Kenya	17 Travel recovery, safari excursion	18 Return to Nairobi, prepare for the week
19 Church, buy supplies for the children	20 School, sports time, and drama	21 School, sports, drama, community outreach	22 School, sports, drama, community outreach	23 School, sports, drama, community outreach	24 Visit Compassion International	25 Sports, drama, evangelism meeting
26 Church in Korogocho, evangelism	27 Last day with the children	28 Visit Living Water Int’l	29 Leave Kenya	30 Arrive in Albuquerque	October 1	2

The morning after we get to Nairobi we'll head out with the Abungus on a short trip out of town - I'm looking forward to the time to get to know them a little better (or for the first time in Alisha's case), enjoy God's creation and get ourselves psyched up for the coming week...not to mention recovering from 9 time zones worth of jet lag.

A big part of our time after that will be spent in Korogocho with the kids living at the orphanage. We (well ok, mostly Justin) have put together a drama for the children to act out based on Mark 10:13-16, and we're going to be heading out to a field with them to play sports in the afternoons as well. To be honest, I'm pretty stoked for the sports part - just the chance to relax and have fun with the kids sounds great all the way around!

I was telling a friend about the trip and how we're going to get to hang out with 100 kids every day when it hit me...we're going to be hanging out with *100* kids every day!! And there's 3 of us, and we all have some definite introvert tendencies. Prayers for big doses of new energy every day would be much appreciated! Even more than that, pray that through the skit, sports, helping out with school and everything else, we would be able to show the kids that they are loved and valued by God. That if they trust Him, He will not leave them as orphans (John 14:18) but will come to them and be with them always. Praise God for His promises!