Kenya / Sundan Team Departure Day

On this day we will set out from SFO at around 8 in the morning and after a short stop in St. Paul MN, we will be landing in Amsterdam for about a four hour layover before finishing the trip to Africa with an 8:30 pm arrival on the 26th. There is a great scene in the Lord of the Rings where Frodo and Sam are walking away from Hobbiton and they come to a place in Maggoty’s field where Sam stops and says “If I takes one more step, it will be the farthest from home I have ever been.” This is certainly true for me.


I would ask God that as we set out that I might be filled with the freshness and wonder of new places. May I start to receive the gift of new eyes with which to look back and see the places I am comfortable in. May I see the beauty of otherness and under it see commonality of humanity. May God’s love for the whole of the world fill me and an appropriate sense of the smallness of my world view take hold of me.

- post submitted by Jon Tacoma