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06-23-2007, 07:13 PM
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Philippine Trip Cancelled!!
Well, we had to cancel our trip to Mindanao, Philippines. We were supposed to leave a week from tomorrow, on our 29th anniversary. The State Dept. has issued another warning to Americans and Europeans to NOT go to the island of Mindanao. Evidently there is a holiday on July 4th called "Filipino-American Friendship Day" and it used to be a celebration, but now the anti-American sentiment on that particular island is so strong that they are expecting a surge of riots, bombings, kidnappings, etc. That would have been the first day of our conference there.
Our head pastor over there even wrote to me to tell us not to come at this time, and he usually ALWAYS tells me how safe it is in his city. He said even with armed guards, he could not guarantee our safety. SO......as sad as it is, I think we are going to fly to Manilla maybe later in the year, and fly him and his wife up to meet us there for a couple of days. They have never flown and have never hardly been off their island, so they will be excited about that. I hate it that we will not get to meet the other L & T pastors, but we felt like we just couldn't go at this time.
Then I get to thinking about Janice Alvear trekking through that jungle with the big snakes and the angry Indians, and I feel like a big CHICKEN!!! LOL!
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06-23-2007, 07:19 PM
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Well, honestly I haven't been able to be excited for you guys about this trip because I didn't have a good feeling about it......so, I'm a bit relieved actually!
Hopefully, the trip to Manila will work out for you later! God is control of all things!
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06-23-2007, 07:25 PM
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Originally Posted by rgcraig
Well, honestly I haven't been able to be excited for you guys about this trip because I didn't have a good feeling about it......so, I'm a bit relieved actually!
Hopefully, the trip to Manila will work out for you later! God is control of all things!
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You know, I couldn't get a good feeling about it either. We had several friends and family members who had called us in the past couple weeks saying that they didn't feel good about this trip, which always makes you feel great!! LOL! My main thing was I just could not get excited about it, and I always LOVE missions trips. I knew we were leaving soon, but it was like it wasn't really happening. Very weird.
I told Eddie that if God had spoken to him and said to go, that we would go anyway and He would protect us, no matter what. But if God had not told him, and we were just going because he felt like it was a need, then we should reconsider. He said that God had not told him to go; we had just had these pastors for 8 years now and had never met them and he felt like we needed some personal contact.
Anway, I put DVD's in the mail this week for them to show at their conference, of Eddie teaching. We did the same thing for Kenya this year. I hope they can actually find a DVD player in that remote part of Kenya!!
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06-23-2007, 07:27 PM
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06-23-2007, 07:42 PM
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I think you made the right decision.
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06-23-2007, 09:55 PM
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Originally Posted by rgcraig
Well, honestly I haven't been able to be excited for you guys about this trip because I didn't have a good feeling about it......so, I'm a bit relieved actually!
Hopefully, the trip to Manila will work out for you later! God is control of all things!
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I didn't feel real excited about it for them either since she had posted something a while back that sounded as though the area was not safe as usual.
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06-23-2007, 09:58 PM
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This is the second trip to the Philippines that we have cancelled! The first time we were supposed to go (which Tamor referred to) was in 2001. It became very dangerous at that time, so we cancelled our flights. We were supposed to be flying on 9/11. We would have been in a mess if we had decided to take that trip!! God knows best.
Our poor head pastor over there is going to stop believing me when I say we are coming to see them!!
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06-23-2007, 10:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Sherri
This is the second trip to the Philippines that we have cancelled! The first time we were supposed to go (which Tamor referred to) was in 2001. It became very dangerous at that time, so we cancelled our flights. We were supposed to be flying on 9/11. We would have been in a mess if we had decided to take that trip!! God knows best.
Our poor head pastor over there is going to stop believing me when I say we are coming to see them!!
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You know Sherri, I haven't had bad feelings about y'all being in the Phillipines - I have had bad feelings about the flight itself.
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06-23-2007, 10:08 PM
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You know Sherri, I haven't had bad feelings about y'all being in the Phillipines - I have had bad feelings about the flight itself.
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Hmmmmm......Eddie and I went to Savannah last week and wrote new wills, since ours was so outdated. This trip had really made me stop and think about a lot of things, but none of them were good.
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06-23-2007, 07:20 PM
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It sounds to me like postponing the trip is the wise thing to do. Hopefully it will work out for you to go later.
I don't think you're a chicken Just using wisdom in not putting yourselves in harms way.
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