Safe and Sound

Well, we arrived in Warsaw late last night, travel weary and relatively healthy. Door to door, we traveled for 27 hours. We praise God that through all that, we all still like each other, we had no major bumps in the road and even David is doing okay!

Here are the details: We flew out of LAX around 4pm on Thursday. Our flight to Heathrow was just over 10 hours. David slept for at least half the flight. The rest of us at least tried to sleep for half the flight. I think I (Chrissy) had 2 hours of actualy zzz's. We arrived in London around 10am on Friday morning and had a LOOONG layover there. That was fine with us... until it got longer... and longer. Our flight from London to Warsaw was delayed, thanks to thundershowers in London. When we finally got on the plane, buckled up and ready to fly, the pilot got on the intercom and told us we'd be sitting on the runway for at least an hour and a half. He said it with a perky voice, as if he were saying "Guess what, folks? We're going to bump you all up to first class!" But that's definitely not what he said. So we waited.

Heather and Kenji took David and played with him so Larry and I could try to sleep. (Ten minutes here and there really add up!) After 2 hours on the runway, we finally took off. We made it to Warsaw around 8:30pm. We worked our way through passport control, baggage claim (all bags, carseat and stroller are present and accounted for!) and customs, and then walked out of the airport, breathing fresh air for the first time in over 24 hours. We spent the night at a hotel near the airport. David was only up once in the middle of the night. (Thanks for your prayers regarding jet lag. He's doing great!)

This morning, our friend John from PROeM picked us up and we made it down to Zakosciele by lunch time. Phiew!

I always reach a point on these trips when I start asking myself "Is it really worth all this 'suffering' just to get there?" (On this trip, that point came just before we landed in Warsaw.) After all, PROeM would get by just fine without us. But of course, that's not the point. God could get along just fine without us too. We don't do these things because He needs us in Poland. We do this because we believe we can best glorify Him right now in Poland. I think that's worth a little suffering (Phil 3:7-11).