Life

11-1/2 days... That's how long I've been in Africa.

Perhaps because of jet lag, perhaps a short circuit between my ears, but it seems like I've been here a month, or two, or three... more on that later.

Before I left America, several people said something like this to me, "keep us updated." So after 10 days of keeping you in suspense, (or not) here is another post. 

I'm here to help at 2CBN. A TV station, so naturally I thought I would be doing stuff with media, video editing, camera work, etc...  Well, since I've been here I haven't touched a video camera, and I haven't done any video editing. But nonetheless I'm helping with the TV station. How? Making playlists... That's basically the schedule... what goes on the air, and when. Its pretty simple, but very important.

Tonight I asked Daniel what I would be doing long term. He said he wants me to perfect the process and work flow of making playlists, and pass that job on to someone else. That's exactly what I intend to do. How? I do not know. But I will do it. Because I don't believe that God had me travel 9126 miles just to make playlists.

"Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might..." (Eccl. 9:10) I think everyone has, at one time or another, wanted to do something great. But a baby doesn't start learning to walk by running a marathon. They learn by taking that one step, and then another, and another, until you can hardly keep track of them. I'm starting small, not necessarily by choice. But that's okay, God knows best...

On a side note, last week Daniel and I went to Mombasa, to take pictures at the wedding of one of his friends. We rode the overnight bus, which was interesting. Mombasa is on the coast, so I got to see the Indian ocean for the first time!

Back to what I started back at the beginning. It doesn't really matter how long it seems I've been here. I'll be here until God sees fit to put me elsewhere.

Thank you for all your prayers and support. Please keep praying for 2CBN and those involved with it.

Africa!

I'm here! The flights went very well, I was able to sleep some thankfully. Its not every day you have 2 nights in 24 hours!
I landed in Nairobi yesterday at about 12:35 local time. I met Titus(one of Daniels friends) and had no trouble getting my visa and luggage. And praise the Lord, customs went fine! I was through in less than a minute! (that doesn't happen very often so it was a real blessing!)
Traffic going home from the airport was quite the experience! I wouldn't survive if I had to drive here! Maybe sometime I will post some pictures of it.
I was very thankful when we got home to Daniels apartment! It was like Christmas for Daniel! Got his new computer and a bunch of other things for him and for the studio. I'm so glad I could bring so much stuff that is needed. (tripods, computers, hard drives etc.)

Thank you for the prayers for safe travel! I'm a little tired today but I don't seem to have too much jet lag. We'll see how the day goes.

Here are some pictures from the trip over.

I'm not sure how the pictures are going to work because this is the first time posting from my phone. The first picture is of the clouds coming into Nairobi, I love African clouds! Second picture is of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from the airport. Third picture is from the flight to Nairobi from Addis.

On my way!

I still can't believe its happening! I'm currently in The Washington Dulles airport. My plane left portland 22 minutes late, but thanks to a healthy tailwind we weren't very late. I was a little worried because I only had 43 minutes in L.A. to get to my next flight. But Praise God, I walked off the plane, figured out where my next gate was, walked directly there and started boarding! (It was kind of a long walk, but I was really only in that airport for maybe 20 minutes.) I was able to sleep for 2-3 hours on that flight. I have 1-1/2 hour wait until the next flight starts boarding.

I'm very tired, but I've been enjoying myself so far. Thank you for the prayers!