Tickets Purchased, Inoculations Received

Karen's preparation for Honduras reached two more milestones: 1) yesterday we purchased her airline tickets and, 2) today we drove into in Zanesville where Karen received her "pre-field" inoculations and a flu shot! We also stopped by WalMart here in town to pick up some bug repellant, a rain poncho, and hand sanitizer. Gotta keep the germs, bugs, insects, viruses, and rain at arm's length down in the Honduran villages. Her anti-malarial medicine has been ordered

Unfortunately, as hard as she shopped--Karen wasn't able to find any snake, tarantula, or scorpion repellant to take along.

It turns out that Karen will be flying to Honduras on her own as Carlos (MAG's Director of Pastoral Ministries) wasn't able to get a seat on the same flight as originally planned. Carlos is now scheduled to arrive a day earlier and, Lord willing, will meet Karen at airport in San Pedro Sula...otherwise Karen's going to receive a crash course in speaking Spanish and looking lost in a foreign city and an unfamiliar culture.

Karen heads in to receive her inoculations.

Me? I'm spending my time updating MAG's ministry brochure; developing documents to use as tools for expanding MAG's financial support structure; and becoming more familiar with MAG's administrative guidelines, ministry facts and figures, and Standard Operating Procedures. It's not quite as exciting as preparing for two weeks in Honduras...but someone has got to do it.

Thanks for your continued prayers. We're needing every one!