Preparation

For the past year we've been working as a team preparing for a two week trip to help Bob and Brenda Boston in their church planting efforts in Asuncion, Paraguay. We're now in our final countdown - just thirty three days until we leave - Passports, Visas for Paraguay and tickets have all been obtained, and final payments made to the Christian and Missionary Alliance Short Term Missions office to get the funds down to the Bostons. Brenda's active blog has inspired me to blog from our perspective on the trip.

God has done a lot of work in preparing us for this trip, and pulled down some big barriers - whether he provided an easy path to get to the Consulate General of Paraguay office in Los Angeles to obtain visas, raising the funds for the six of us to make the trip, and even sending me to Sao Paulo Brazil on business a week ago, allowing me to check out the airport and assure the team that the international connection there would not be particularly challenging.

Tomorrow is our final fundraiser, a barbeque catered by Texas Roadhouse Barbeque.