Z Team has Arrived!

Early this morning eight jet lagged women arrived safely and in good health in Pretoria, South Africa.

Our journey has included two ten hour flights and a whirlwind two-hour tour of London resulting in eight major cases of jet lag.

To our amazement 14 of our 16 bags made it through. The wonderful blessing is that these two bags included missionary donations and did not have any of our personal belongings.

Johan and Christa Combrink, our gracious hosts, are making us welcome and preparing us for the next leg of our journey with wonderful food, comfortable accommodations and insight into the culture of the African women to whom we will minister.

Photo by Suzanne Carlton

Send Me!

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple. And they were calling to one another: "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory." Above him were seraphs, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.

"Woe to me!" I cried. "I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty." Then one of the seraphs flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. With it he touched my mouth and said, "See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for."

Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" And I said, "Here am I. Send me!"

Isaiah 6:1-8