Dan and I and a team of 20 others, including 12 medical professionals, are headed to Burundi on our first-ever e3 Medical/Church Planting trip. Dan has gone ahead of us and has been sending updates via Twitter. If you don't already follow @daninreallife, it's easy to sign up for a FREE account at www.Twitter.com.
Here's what Dan has twittered so far. First one is most recent. Scroll down to the bottom of this post, and read the updates in reverse order to get a good idea of what Dan has been up to for the past 4 days!
- Visited government clinic. They have no one to help. Who cares more for the people? Church or government?
- Visited church medical clinic in Burundi. They have helpers in color-coordinated uniforms to fetch water, register patients, pick up trash...
- All new church sites visited. Please pray for government permit for medical clinic & tax free status for medicines.
- In Burundi, repeat of yesterday, find new church sites & see medical clinic. 1-change, did zipper check before I left.
- Missions teaching me about spiritual battles. Spent awake time reading Bible, praying, singing. In your face demons
- Poolside breakfast after sleepless night in Burundi. Coffee, please.
- Thank you Jesus! a/c just came on in my room. Love miracles. Quick thermodynamics calc: room temp should achieve 78 in 11 hrs. I'll take it!
- Midnight in Burundi. Fell asleep early...Oops. Now wide awake...Bummer.
- 20 oz fried fish fillet w/chips last pm; celery soup, toasted ham & cheese sandwich w/fried egg tonight; +all fruit is in season. Luv Burundi.
- Sitting on the patio in steamy Bujumbura waiting for dinner, surrounded by 1000's of mosquitos. God have mercy on me, please.
- One new church is along the river full of hippos. The only wild animals left in Burundi are hippos, crocs, monkeys. Survivors
- Visited new church sites & clinic in Gatumba, Burundi. Met w/church leaders, clinic manager...then noticed my zipper was all the way down
- Losing bug bite contest in Burundi. I've got 7 bites & only 1 fat, bloody mosquito has died.
- Horrible neck, arm & chest pain before I left for Burundi. No pain at all now but @berryman has neck pain before she leaves for Burundi??
- Hot night last night, cheap hotel manager in Burundi has my a/c set in the low 80's...just like I do at home...never mind
- 5am in Burundi: got to sleep in lumpy bed last night. It was awesome. Better than airport & airplane. God is good!
- Falling asleep waiting for my food in Burundi. Forgot what a miracle "fast" food in USA is
- Back to the hotel for dinner. Hotel has guests & bar has a popcorn machine. Oh how far Burundi has come since the end of the war
- Pastor's meeting along Lake Tanganyika at sunset. Fires flickering on the beaches; the city lights from the Congo beginning to twinkle. Ahh.
- Spent night in airport to save $100, spent next night on plane, when I arrived the Burundi made me take a shower before our meeting
- Showered (cold), shaved & feel human again. Sitting on the patio by the pool at the Source de Nil in steamy Bujumbura drinking coca-cola
- Left for airport at noon from Phoenix to Chicago to Washington to Rome to Ethiopia arrived in Burundi - 3pm 51 hrs - 9 time zones later
- On plane in Rome half way from DC to Ethiopia
- So far all 3 flights have been completely full.
- Chicago was cold, DC was cool, felt good. Ethiopian airplane HOT as PHX. Oh well
- On the plane! Remembered my mileage card & got to pre-board. Life is good.
- Leaving USA, for a while I'll only be able to send & post. I'll miss you guys. Hopefully internet 'on' in Burundi. Hopefully phone 'on' too.
- African hospitality: because I'm a man & tall, I've been escorted to the front of the line & offered food by African travelers
- Checked in @ Dulles. Spent night in airport (that was uncomfortable). 1 more long day & night & day of travel to Burundi.
- Midnight in Washington, now what do I do?
- Boarded 1st flight to Burundi for medical & church planting mission. Flight is FULL.
- Cool benefit already. Airport has NFL games. I don't have them at home.
- Oh Yeah! Burundi Medical Mission 2009 is underway. Advanced team is in airport waiting for a llllooooonnngggg series of flights!
- Just finished duct-taping Walmart duffle...ok, for sure, last trip for this bag...almost out of tape
Start here - scroll up from here, reading in reverse order!
