Our Response Team Arrived Safely

Pastor Joel and the rest of the team arrived safely in Rwanda yesterday, around 2:00 pm our time. Thank you for your prayers. Below is a picture of Joel and Mark Coughlin (another pastor) checking in at MSP Airport.

From Steve Fredlund... "Our trip is off to a perfect start with everyone meeting at Eric and Nicole's (except Carol who met as at the airport on her way from another trip!).  We packed, ate, and starting talking about Our Response and the trip (what a fabulous team).  We arrived at the airport with perfect timing (actually ran into Bob Johnson at the airport who is one of the Our Response board members and original travelers in 2009).  The flights & layovers all went perfect from Minneapolis to Chicago to Brussels, Belgium and finally arriving in Kigali, Rwanda the evening of October 20.

We met Charles who is World Vision Rwanda’s Donor Liaison to U.S. Donors; he will be with us on the entire trip and is just fabulous.  Several of us also enjoyed some Rwandan cuisine while sitting on the outside porch of our Kigali hotel.  All of us are working on our gizmos to keep you updated and to say hi to the ones we love.  I was able to video skype Chris, Ryan & Annie and call Tracy.  Even when I am in Rwanda, I have a rad family!

Will get to be soon as we are getting up to have breakfast, meet with National World Vision Rwanda staff, go to the Kigali Genocide Memorial, and drive to the hotel near Kigali where we will be staying.  There are a couple pictures to show a bit of our trip, but certainly many more will be coming!  Thanks for your prayers and encouragement on our journey."