Getting ready to saddle up once more, travel begins today!

We leave today for our Fall trip to the Nairobi slum of Kawangware to do a vision clinic.  The 5 of us are all excited to be working with our friends and veteran volunteers there at the Lutheran Church.  The team was commissioned last Sunday.  In the picture below, from left to right are myself, Sandra Dorn, Diana Zoch, Dr. Robert Zoch and of course, Pastor Kevin, who will be joining us this time.

Pastor Kevin describes our trip to the congregation before praying over the team for a safe and effective mssion

We typically have flown out of Austin for between $1200 and $1500 on British Air and gotten to Nairobi by way of London.  This time, we jumped on a deal with Air France and it was on;y $768 round trip, but we do need to fly out of Houston and our stop in Europe is in Paris.  Even with long term parking, this price made the drive to Houston worth it.  I will be reporting back as often as possible, our layover in Paris is only 2 hours, so it may be hard to get work out that we are safe until sometime Saturday morning Austin time.  We will be 9 hours ahead, so noon in Austin is 9pm in Nairobi.  We all have a strategic plan to sleep on the first flight as much as possible and then try to stay awake from Paris to Nairobi, to help make the 9 hour adjustment.  Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers as we hope to reach several thousand people with care for their eyes and the Good News that is the reason we do what we do!