Pizza and Waffles in Bangalore

An email from Brad:

Team India is in India. We arrived safe and sound with all our bags and our spirtis high early Thursday morning. We met Prem and were quickly given a crash course in Bangalore traffic, which was quite the experience. Thursday was our jet lag catch up / get settled day which was much needed. On Friday we were able to go to Asha Kiran for a tour and meet the children. They were all very welcoming right off the start, it was avery warm welcome and we are all very excited to get to take part in the amazing things God is doing there. On Friday we also met a guy named Nick from England who is also working at the school. He will be joining us on our adventures and so far as made a very good, alebit foreign, addition to our team. Other than that we have just been trying to adjust to the culture and time difference. So far the food has been very mild (we've had pizza and waffles even) and for the most part we've been able to stomach it all. Prem is giving us a tour of Bangalore later this afternoon which should be very cool. Our team prayer requests would be that we could just be fully utilized at Asha Kiran and we could make the most of our time here as we search for our place in God's great plan. We are very excited for the upcoming weeks and look forward to becoming more aware of God's kingdom and workings so far from our home. We thank you for all your support.

Brad / Team India

Turkey update from Jamie...

The trip here was the longest one I've ever take on planes. We started in Seattle, our plane was supposed to leave at 9:25pm, got delayed until 11:45pm. So they tell us we won't make our connecting flight once we reach London to get to Istanbul. They reroute us through Frankfurt, Germany but, once we get to London, we realize the flight to Isantabul has also been delayed a couple hours so we would have made it. Too late to change our tickets because our flight to Germany leaves so soon. So, we get on another plane and head off again. Once in Frankfurt, we are informed we will not be able to get to our plane to Istanbul in time as it is in another terminal. So British Airways put us up in a hotel for the night. It was a pretty nice hotel near the airport. We didn't get to see much of Frankfurt though because it was almost midnight by the time we got to our hotel and we had to leave again at 5:45am to catch our next flight. It was Mary's birthday that day so we decided to celebrate by searching for cake or some sort of food, but all we found was the hotel bar which was only serving drinks. So we drank some "coke" and went to bed for a few hours. We made our flight to Istanbul, although the process of making sure our luggage was coming with us sent us on a wild goose chase all over the airport. We got to Istanbul around 11:30am to find they had only lost one of our 8 bags. At one point in this airport I heard "Mr. Jamie Paxton, please come to the information counter" coming over the loud speakers. I assumed that was Verna trying to find us. She did and took care of our luggage problem, then proceeded to book our next flight to Denizli. Unfortunately, this flight wasn't leaving for another 6.5 hours, and then got delayed 45 minutes more. BUT - we finally made it to Denizli, and had to take an hour bus ride to get to our house. That's a long story. Sorry if it's somewhat boring. Right now I'm sitting in our house in Denizli. It is so nice. We are spoiled. I can't wait to start working with Bill and Lydia, the family that is starting the business here. We met them last night and I really like them!I'll try to get some pictures on here at some point. Yay Turkey!

India has arrived...

Here is an email I recieved from Prem (their host)

Hi Brandon,
The team has arrived safely as per the schedule. They are all in good spirit. Today they are relaxing and having some orientation in the evening. Tomorrow they will visit the school and from Monday they will have some sort of routine. We are also planning for their outstation trips during the week ends before they leave

Prem James

Also, a funny story. Brad Fulkerson's mother called me last night wondering if I had heard about the team's arrival yet. I said I had. But then I had to call her back and apologize because I realized that I was thinking of Serbia and Turkey, and that I hadn't heard from them yet. Well not 60 seconds goes by after hanging up with her when lo and behold, a call from Brad the man himself saying they'd arrived safely! What timing! My apologies to Mrs. Fulkerson again. :)

Pray for Serbia

Drew called today. They are having some troubles cashing their traveler's checks. Pray that they would find a place that accepts them.

They Made It!

I recieved a call from Krista today. They made it and are now, finally, at their final destination. All I could hear was laughter in the background so it sounded like they were all good... probably the tired giggles if you ask me!

Turkey is stuck!

Well, Turkey has had quite an adventure. When they checked in last night their flight from Seattle to London was delayed 2 and a half hours. Therefore they were going to miss their connection in London. They had to re-book flights and go from Seattle, to London, to Frankfurt, then finally to Istanbul, arriving two hours late. Well, they got to Germany and their flight out of whack again. Now they are spending the night in Frankfurt and will be arriving in Istanbul at 11:25 am tomorrow, (the 14th). They also have to get their flight from Istanbul to another part of the country changed. In total they will have a day to a day and half of more traveling then planned. Pray for rest!

France has arrived!

I recieved a call from Riley. Shes says they are safe and sound on the ground in Paris. They are a little tired but ready to start practicing French!

Serbia has arrived!

Email from Drew:

Brandon,
We arrived in Serbia around 2:00 this afternoon (it is now almost 10). We just finished with the EUS (college ministry service). I believe that we are going to try and give you a call soon but just in case we can't tonight we will get back to you in the next day or so.

Team Serbia

World Deputation 2006 is officially underway! Both France and Serbia left this morning! They are now enroute to their final destinations. Pray for safe travels.

The next Team to Leave is Turkey. They leave Monday night at 9:25 PM on British Air.

India then leaves Tuesday at 12:10 PM UNITED.

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