Travel to Spain

Well as many of you know, I am off on another trip with another team. This time I am in Villagarcia, Spain. We have arrived safely, and I wish I could say the same for our luggage. Unfortunatly it is still somewhere over the Atlantic. We are told it should arrive some time tomorrow afternoon. Please feel free to pray about that as all of the material we need for our drama and other ministry items are in those bags....as well as we won't mind having some clean clothes.

But today the story I want to share with you is our amazing adventure of how we got here in the first place. When we left Port Huron we only had seats for six of our 12 team members on the first flight from Detroit to Chicago. So we arrived 3 hours in advance to make sure we all got on the flight. We checked in and were given boarding passes, but still only had 6 people with assigned seats. So we went to the gate early and I asked the lady who was just finishing up loading a flight if she could help us make sure we had seats for everyone. When she pulled up our itinterary she told us our flight was overbooked and she couldn't be sure we would all get on it. But the flight she was loading was going to Chicago and she could fit six of the team on that flight so that we all got there before our connecting flight. That was great...she got seats for 6 and then asked if we wanted her to try and put the whole team on the earlier flight. She was able to get all 12 of us on the earlier flight. Total God thing, but we didn't know how important that would be just yet.

So we land in Chicago ahead of a big thunderstorm. We get our boarding passes for the rest of our connecting flights and eat some dinner. A huge storm rolls in and you can hardly see a few feet outside the window. Crazy windy and lightening. Storm blows over, our flight is still planning to go out, but a bit later....But the Detroit to Chicago flight that we were suppose to be on was delayed until 6:30. The plane for Madrid was long gone, from the gate by that time. God knew we all needed to be in Chicago early or half of the team would have missed the Spain flight.

Soooooo....it's not over yet folks....we get on the plane to Madrid and push away from the gate....two hours late, but we have a four hour layover so no problem....But....we are in line to take off and it's a bit backed up because of the earlier storm....we are number 48 in line to take off. How long does it take for that many planes to take off you may ask.....well over 2 hours. So now our four hour layover is gone and we will be pushing it to make our connection.

Get to Madrid, yep, misssed the flight. Stand in long line for over an hour to try and get on the next flight....12 people on one flight....what are the odds. Well they are good when God is involved. All 12 got tickets on the next flight to Santiago. Amazing!

When we got to Santiago...our luggage was not to be found...not surprising, but they were able to locate it and said it was in route to Spain and would make the connection and be here around 1pm tomorrow and then they will deliver it to us by about 4pm. That's the plan anyway.

Tomorrow for church we are going casual as each of us brought pj's and a change of clothes in our carry on.

Thanks so much for all of the prayers. We had safe flights, we saw God's hand in the details and we are also getting to learn valuable spiritual lessons on patience as we wait for our luggage. Isn't God just so awesome to provide all of that for us.

Starting tomorrow a different team member will be sharing with you about our day. Until then....this is Ann writing for the Spain 2010 team.