God's Provision
I sure did not expect to write so frequently, but this has been a busy 2 weeks! First we had 2 fundraisers, and then Sunday evening, just as I was getting to relax, stress came back in the form of plane tickets.
I wish I could share the whole story, but it is so confusing I'm still not real sure what happened. So the short version is this: Pastor and I had put our group's plane tickets on reserve Saturday because the prices were rising. Then we noticed Sunday that the price had actually jumped up $100! But our reserved tickets were the cheaper price, $780 (that was blessing #1). So obviously it was time to buy. We had reserved the tickets in separate groups. I bought the 9 tickets I reserved no problem. When Pastor went to buy the 6 tickets he reserved, it had been canceled. Enter confusion, chaos, long hours on the phone with customer service, and anger. And then blessing #2 in the form of a customer service advocate who saw our case through and Tuesday morning we were able to buy the last 6 plane tickets at our originally reserved price ($780 and not $875, thank God!)
In other news, we officially have 18 people on the Belize team! This is beyond my wildest dreams (which was 15) and way beyond Pastor's realistic dreams (9). I remember being so nervous and torn up about how expensive this trip is, thinking it would severly limit the size of the team. Instead we have a team literally twice the size of last year's (at more than double the cost). God's provision is seeing us through each and every step of this trip.