I've been reading your posts, thanks! I agree and have been praying along those lines myself. Please read below from Andy's message to me this afternoon. No wonder we were up last night in prayer, Jeri Lynn! As he says, not to be alarmed but now is the time to pray!! I spoke with him also as he was getting on the plane to Nairobi and he sounds fine. If there is aproblem, then he said he'll call. I'll keep you posted, or call by phone if necessary for important updates. Trusting the Lord in all things today and not to worry about appearances.

FROM ANDY:

"There has been some trouble in burundi today. nothing to be real worried about. Stephen said that the rebel group FNL which I assume is seeking some role in the nations government or so it seems has always had a few little disturbances in order to keep people aware of their interests and to move toward peace negotiations. Well the peace talks fell off this past week so in order to push things along now, they dropped a lot of mortar bombs around the area. Stephen said that his neighborhhod was fine but about 15 people were killed last night in these various bombings. He said that in all the time he has Americans to leave, but to lay low for a while to see how things develop.

Stephen seems to think that things are going to calm down although they are expecting more tonight, again so that the rebel group can get the peace talks back online.

He and I talked by phone and emailed each other and the plan is that I will proceed to nairobi. If Kenya Air is taking people to Burundi then I will go and he will pick me up. If for any reason the airlines refuses to fly to Burundi (worse case scenario), then stephen gave me his dad's cell phone number so that I might call him in Nairobi and get some assistance. I would of course stay in Kenya if the airlines will not take anyone there, but if it should be worse and make it impossible to get there, then I will look very seriously at going to Uganda to Silver.

However, the situation sounds a lot worse than it is and I will probably go to Burundi and proceed as planned using wisdom on all my moving about."