welcome!

we are just a few days out from take off, and words cannot explain all the emotions at least i am feeling right now... excited, nervous, anxious, happy, etc.  i could go on, but i won’t.  anyways, i just wanted to put this together to be able to keep you, our people at home, up to date with our adventures.  i should be able to update this pretty regularly, but just in case for some reason i can’t get it to cooperate, i’ve put together just a regular blogspot address that if i have to, i can just update from there...  liberiaadventure2009.blogspot.com  so if this site hasn’t been updated, then i would check that one.

i would ask of you, to those who are into that kind of thing, to keep us in your prayers.  this is a big adventure that we are all going on, and i for one have been a little intimidated by it the past few days.  when it comes down to it, i know we are in good hands, though, which is reassuring.  please pray that our trip is effective and beneficial, that we will be able to show love to everyone that we come in contact with.  pray for grace and safety for all of our travels.  the journey there is pretty intense: saturday morning go from nashville to chicago to london to brussels.  spend the night in brussels and then off to monrovia.  pray that all of our luggage makes it there with us.  we all also had to have a lot of shots, so pray that they will do what they are supposed to do.  pray also for our group dynamic.  our team is just wonderful, but pray for us to be loving and patient with each other.  finally i would also ask that you pray for peace for all of yourselves, our friends and families back home here, who might be a little apprehensive about a trip like this.  (you may have responded “you’re going where?!?” at some point.)  it is going to be such an exciting trip!

thank you in advance for your thoughts and prayers.  your support means so much!  see ya’ll in liberia!

peace and love,

julia