We had a good trip to Washington D. C. today. We are staying in the beautiful home of Rosette and Bryan Brown and their two beautiful children. Wayne and Carroll Brown -who we served with in Tanzania many years ago, are here and it has been a wonderful afternoon. The traffic was terrible coming up for the Fourth of July Weekend. Bryan and Rosette provided a "delicious meal" for the group going to Africa tonight and we enjoyed meeting the "group". Eleven of us will meet at the Airport in the am. We leave here at 5:30 a.m. Thank you so much for your prayers for all of us. We pray that we will be a blessing to the children of the Mercy Care Centre. Also, continue to pray for our meeting with Daudi in Arusha. He is the little boy that we have been sponsoring for the past 2 years who lives in Singida.God Bless each of you and thank you so much for your prayers.
See you soon.
LOVE,
The GreenesLee Ray, Beth, Sarah and Lydia - Africa 2007
This is a place that the team going to the Mercy Care Centre will be posting details and thoughts on the trip. Please keep them all in your prayers as they work with the children of Mathare Valley in Kenya.
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Good Morning! We're happy (and relieved) to report that this year’s departure (at least from this side of the security gate!) was easy and painless. Half of the group left our house at 5:45 a.m., drove to Dulles in non-existent traffic, secured the assistance of two porters almost immediately, met up with the other half of the group at the ticket counter, and checked in all together ahead of the rush. Ethiopian Airlines' computer system was down, so Wayne worked out an arrangement where most of the bags were checked "as is" (regardless of weight) and only eight were charged as additional baggage. What a blessing to bring all that has been donated to the MCC kids! In total, check-in took less than 45 minutes (some who have gone on the trip in the past may be able to recount tales of less efficient experiences)…the group must have someone Upstairs looking out for them!
It was great fun for us to host this year’s group for dinner last night. Bryan and I enjoyed the tangible excitement, bountiful and high-spirited laughter, and the instant formation of a joyful and affectionate delegation. Our children enjoyed having Sarah and Lydia as their “grown-up” friends! :o)
Last night, someone in the group asked about the quotes we put in your journals, and I apologize for getting distracted from printing out the compilation. We pasted it in below so that when you get home, you can print out this post and have it for future journaling. Maybe someone else out there will enjoy the inspiration, as well.
THANK YOU for all that you’re doing these next few weeks! We wish you SAFE travels and a WONDERFUL experience,
Rosette Millora & Bryan W. Brown
Journal Inspirations:
"Value of a Journal. A sentence now; a sentence last year; a sentence yesterday. Tomorrow a question comes that for the first time brings together these three and shows them to be the three fractions of [a] Unit."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Associate reverently and as much as you can with your loftiest thoughts. Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid. Thoughts accidentally thrown together become a frame in which more may be developed and exhibited. Perhaps this is the main value of a habit of writing, of keeping a journal—that so we remember our best hours and stimulate ourselves…Having by chance recorded a few disconnected thoughts and then brought them into juxtaposition, they suggest a whole new field in which it was possible to labor and to think. Thought begat thought."
Henry David Thoreau
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Let us not love with words or tongue, but with actions and in truth."
1 John 3:18
"What good shall I do today?
What good have I done today?"
Benjamin Franklin (questions he asked himself regularly first thing in the morning and last thing at night)
"Every one helps his neighbor, and says to his brother, 'Take courage!' "
Isaiah 41:6
"For mortal to aid mortal—this is god; and this is the road to eternal glory."
Pliny the Elder (Natural History)
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do...
Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover."
Mark Twain
"Recall the face of the poorest and the most helpless man whom you may have seen and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate will be of any use to him. Will he be able to gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny?"
Mohandas K. Gandhi
"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right things, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up."
Anne Lamott (Introduction to Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life)
"If I can stop one Heart from breaking
I shall not live in vain
If I can ease one Life the Aching
Or cool one Pain
Or help one fainting Robin
Unto his Nest again
I shall not live in Vain."
Emily Dickenson
"The first hope in our inventory—the hope that includes and at the same time transcends all others—must be the hope that love is going to have the last word." Arnold J. Toynbee “Conditions of Survival,” Saturday Review, 1964
"To travel hopefully is better than to arrive."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"Only that traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better."
Henry David Thoreau
Judie, et all- I am so proud of all of you. Your news is both heart breaking and heart warming! I know you will make a huge difference in the lives of these wonderful children.
Love, Rita, Gladys, Virginia
the Greenes
i am not sure I am doing this right. Glad to get you notes. Sounds like the blessings are bountiful. Praying for God's continued blessings.
Shirley Sorrell
We are sending our love from Midlothian VA to all of you and the precious children! Purnell, I saw your pictures and I was excited for the children knowing that they will love you so much! I can't wait to see the jewelry made from the bottle caps! Prayers and love are sent your way.
Love,
Beulah Bean
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