March 18th, 2016! Oh the adventure.......

Hi Everyone, this is Karen

Well, we have had a mighty interesting day to say the least!

We started our morning off by finishing up projects around the Rehoboth campus and at the food pantry. Kathy and Erin’s team did chapel time at the elementary school and the kids really enjoyed their songs and skits.

After lunch we cleaned our dorms and loaded up the vans to head out for Santa Rosa for our stop for the night. Someone at the school had recommended that we stop at the famous Perry Null Trading Post in Gallup to look around. We had debated on whether to take the time to stop and when we left Rehoboth we really hadn’t made a decision. At the last minute, we decided to pull in. It was truly a God lead decision! Just as we pulled in our break line broke and the breaks went clear to the floor. The driveway had just enough of an incline and our fast thinking driver, Nita, put it into low gear and we were able to get stopped. Thank God for his loving protection that were weren’t moving on down the highway when the breaks went out!

We waited with the nice people at Perry Null’s while we waited for the tow truck. We had some pretty interesting company while we waited. A few of the locals tried to engage in conversations with us but let’s just say between the spit baths they were giving out and the slurred speech we were not exactly sure what they were trying to tell us. So after the van was towed, we made two trips to haul everyone to Golden Coral to eat dinner while we waited on news about the van. Turns out after searching all over town, we couldn’t get the part needed to fix the van until Monday.

So we had quite a dilemma, we were 5 seats short of loading into the other vehicles so we had to make the decision for some of us had to stay here in Gallup until the van can be fixed. We loaded up all the kids with four brave leaders and sent them off to Santa Rosa so they could stay on schedule and get back so they could be at school on Monday. I am sure they were thankful for that decision.

So here we are that the Days Inn, Ryan, Sierra, Emily, Nita and myself having an extended mini vacation well, all of us but Ryan, while we wait on the van. As I write this the kids should be quickly approaching Santa Rosa to stop for the night. Ryan is always telling us that when we embark on these trips that we must be flexible and be ready to change plans and schedules at any given moment. Well, today was sure one of those days.

But through all of the trials we’ve had today, God has kept us in his favor. All the kids left in good spirits. We are all safe and sound and had an awesome week and are going home (some later than others) with full and changed hearts.

Please keep us in your prayers as we make our long journey home.