Last evening nine of us gathered to pack duffel bags of supplies to take with us to the DR for the people of Altagracia. There was excitement in the room as we counted the bars of soap, sheets, pencils, crayons, chalk boards and many other assorted items. Each bag needs to have a complete list of contents and as we rearranged the items, due to bag weight limits, our scribe continued to patiently change the lists. Finally, victory! Bags packed and distributed to those who we see that they arrive next Tuesday evening at the airport.
Yes, it is only one week from tonight that 10 of us will depart from Sea-Tac Airport for the Dominican Republic. I am anxious, excited, hopeful, curious, as to what God's plan will be for me there and how my life will be impacted by this trip. I will be working with the children to teach about hygiene, trying to explain how germs that cannot be seen can make them sick. This may be a challenge but I am up for it and look forward to spending the week there helping as I can and making new friends.
Packing for this trip is a lot different than packing for the usual tourist trip. For our own personal trips we are packing as light as we possibly can and for this trip we are stuffing in tools, pencils, coloring books, sheets and every other sort of thing you can imagine to teach about germs. It has been a long time since I have even checked a bag on an airplane and one that weighs 50 pounds is even more rare! Tally-Ho!
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