Nine of us met in Milwaukee at the airport at 8am this morning and headed out. Our first stop was Chicago OHare where we met up with our other team member, before boarding a 2.5 hour flight to Houston. We are now breaking for dinner before we catch our 6:25pm flight to Managua, Nicaragua, set to arrive at 8:40pm local time (9:40pm CDT as they don't do daylight savings time). We will make our way through Immigration, pick up our bags and get through Customs before meeting our host and heading to the hotel for the night. Early tomorrow we will take a van up to Chinandega where we will spend the next week! The team is excited and ready to roll! Pray for continued energy and patience as we get in late tonight.
What an incredible trip it has been so far! I'm sitting in the outdoor lobby of our hotel this morning, processing all of the things the group has said over the past few evenings in our debriefing sessions. We haven't had a lot of time for blogging because our evening meetings have gone long due to very good discussion! As I sit here, I am trying to process all of the things the team shared as well as my own emotions from this trip. As team leader, my first responsibility is to for the safety of the team and the administrative tasks of the trip. But every trip I go on brings new waves of emotion as I interact with the people we come to serve. This team has been incredible as well. Our evening debrief sessions have been full of raw, honest thoughts and reactions, both joys and sorrows, as we work with the same group of adults and children each day and go into their homes to install water filters. Today is our last day on the project and our last day with these people. W
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