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3/18/13

 Here I am 1 month prior to going to Kenya, and God knows what I have ahead. Here is how we began. As a Christmas Gift, Katie gave me the time, space, and home-holding ability to allow me to go to Kenya for 9 days in April. I can’t say enough about how she is absolutely coming along side and helping me lead and helping me be the man I am. I would absolutely not be who I am without her. Make no mistake that God IS working through her, to me. I thank Him, and thank her (not enough on both counts).


 The next step was assuring that work was going to be able to survive with me gone. Early January, I sat down with my boss, Mark, and he tells me he is going on a Mediterranean cruise the same week I’m going to Kenya. On top of that, we were waiting for news from a major supplier that we won a bid on their material. This is a significant source of revenue for us, so we have been on pins and needles until that news came in. Well, it came in for sure earlier this month, at which I approached Mark, told him I thought we’d be OK with the two of us gone, and have Chris and Eric and other guys running the show.


By this time, it was only a few days ago, and I had only begun to put “both feet in” for this trip.