We are currently in route to the Island nation of Tonga to attend The Navigators Pacific Island Conference! We will be about 6500 miles from home and will be gone for about 14 days! We left at 1:30pm from Chicago on Monday to get to LA. We left LA last night, the 3rd, and arrived in Auckland this morning, the 5th. We lost the 4th so hopefully nothing too important happened. :) We have a 9 hr layover in Auckland right now and we can see the ocean outside the airport window. Wish we could go outside but I'm not too worried about it because I know we will have a day here on our way back. And this is such a nice and comfortable airport to be stuck in!
We leave for Tonga at 3pm today and we will be there 5 days for the conference. We can't wait to meet and interact with Navigator staff from all over the Pacific Islands! And Mike Treneer, the international president of The Navigators, is the conference speaker which is always a treat.
After Tonga we will head to Fiji for 3 days to see campus, meet people, look at housing, etc. We are excited for this leg of the trip!
Our hope and prayer during this time is that God would bring more clarity to our situation with the visa complications, etc. Even more than that we hope to begin to build deep relationships with staff in the region and to further our heart and vision for the South Pacific.
Stay tuned for a detailed update when we get back!
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