Well, like I said before, Me and two other people were the original leaders of the trip, college kids leading college kids. It was scary for me, but I had to do what I had to do. Then, God called in the relief pitcher, Dan Rieke. Dan was our interim College pastor until we received our new college pastor, Nate Stuart. Dan came in and took over and did everything in just a week, and what seemed to take three people multiple weeks to do, he did in one. Amazing. After having all the plans ready to go it was real easy to relax and just wait for the trip to start, but it was at that point that it all changed. Two days before we left for the trip, I got some information from Don Mutton, who is in charge of the singles ministry at HFBC, saying that Dan and his wife Lauren were not going to be able to go. Back to stressing out.
Then I get some new info with good and bad news. Lauren being sick could not go still, but since she was getting better Dan was going to be able to make it. So, not stressing out as much. But again plans never seem to go according to plan. I get an email on the day before we leave that Dan can not make it because Lauren was no longer feeling good. Not only were Dan and Lauren not going we were going to miss two huge leaders, and now Nate has to step up and we would have to get a new leader that no one really knew. Stressing out again. If that didn't seem enough. We were going to travel be vehicle and our original plans was to take two twelve passenger vans, but a couple days before Dan said that there were none in the Houston area that were available. So, the plans changed to driving three Sedans, but that fell through because there was only two leaders that could drive. So... We had to settle with one sedan and one ford explore for 11 people. Stressing out a little bit more.
If that wasn't enough Nate was in Georgia with the church staff on this big conference and his plane got delayed and he was not going to be able to land in Houston until 2:30 am and we were leaving at 5:oo am (not enough sleep for a 15 hour trip). So, we pushed the time to leave back to 8:00 am, and while paul and I were telling the news to everyone that was going on the trip more news comes. Ricky, who I was really excited to get to know more on this trip, wouldn't be able to make the trip because he had Bronchitis. Trip is now down to 10 people. This is starting to get ridiculus.
I have never gone through anything like this, and I have gone a lot of mission trips. Nothing compares to this. I felt that the Devil was really trying to attack this trip, and it wasn't just me that felt this. Many people in this group felt the same way. Why would he not want things to go according to plan, why?
To Be Continued...
