His ways are higher than ours.

I often tell groups that we pray through the planning of a trip, but once we get on that airplane, God takes over and sometimes the plans go out the window.  Such has been the case this week.  God has had much bigger plans than we have had.  Now that we cannot go to Nepal until Tuesday, the Lord opened the door for us to preach at a church tomorrow morning, then head straight for the airport and fly to Cambodia on Sunday afternoon.  Then we will spend 24 hours in Cambodia and use some remote control airplanes to do an outreach with a missionary there.  We will get back in Bangkok on Monday night, just in time to catch the first flight out to Nepal on Tuesday morning.  We have since been able to roll our flights back leaving Nepal to help make up for some of the time lost due to the plane crash.  So, a trip that was going to introduce FliteTest to Nepal has opened the door to make an impact in 3 countries instead of 1. I guess God has bigger plans than we do.  Praise the Lord for that.

Making Lemonade out of Lemons

Well, we are still stuck in Bangkok as they work to open up the airport after the crash. We are praying we can get to Nepal soon. We had to fly the person meeting us in Nepal to Bangkok because he ws stuck in India and they wanted him out of te country. They require special visas in advance. However, we made lemonade out of lemons. We were able to take part in an English program through one of our partners that we support and Lee was able to share his testimony with a group of people at the meeting. God has His plan and His timing. 

It’s Official. 

You know it’s official when they have a sign waiting for you and your own kiosk at the airport hotel. We are not leaving today as they work to remove the plane from the Kathmandu airport. You could tell it was not a normal situation when all of the Thai Airways personnel were running around frantically trying to figure out what to do. They have take very good care of us though. 

Delayed!

Well, we aren’t going to make it to Kathmandu on time.  They had us loaded on the shuttle bus to board the airplane here in Bangkok and then unloaded all of us back into the terminal.  Apparently there was an accident on the runway at Kathmandu where a Turkish Airlines plane skidded off the runway.  They are waiting to see when they will be able to open flights back up to Kathmandu.

http://www.breakingnews.com/item/2015/03/04/photo-turkish-airlines-plane-skids-off-runway-at/

We’ll keep you posted.

48 Hours in Saigon

We made it back from Vietnam and are in Bangkok waiting to head to Nepal tomorrow.  Here is a gallery of pictures from Vietnam.  Cory took some of these pictures.  It was great to see Vietnam and the various projects we have there.  48 hours in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) is quite a whirlwind tour.  We were running from the time we hit the ground until the time we flew out.  It is awesome to see all of the fruits of the labor there and to see the vision and potential ahead.  There is a great opportunity in Vietnam and I’m so excited to see what is in store.  I love the people and am so grateful for our friends there.

Motorbike City

Just got back from Vietnam, I’ll post an update with some pics in a second blog.  However, I wanted to share a video I put together of the motorbikes (motorcycles) in Vietnam.  There are 6 million of them in Ho Chi Minh City alone!  This is definitely the main mode of transportation here. I did portions of the clips in slow motion so that they were easier to see.  Enjoy!

Cambodia in Review

We had an amazing trip to Cambodia, the people are so wonderful.  It was humbling to visit the genocide museum to see what Pol Pot did to the people here.  It was a blessing to see several of our MANNA kids now in nursing school.  It was an honor to be a part of all of the great things going on here in Cambodia and to meet many new friends.  We visited our nutrition centers in Phnom Penh and Kampong Thom Village.  We also got to spend the evening at our orphanage in Kampong Thom as they put on a special program for us.

From Orphan to Nursing Student

Last night we got to meet up with several people that Cory knows from previous trips.  In the picture above we have Bemol, Marah, Kim, and Rith.  Marah was an orphan at our orphanage in Kampong Thom Village and Kim was at our nutrition center for 9 years.  Now they are both first year nursing students at a nursing school in Phnom Penh. Really awesome to see the impact in their lives.  We gave them MANNA hats that we had printed in Bangkok. Today we travel to Kampong Thom Village to visit the orphanage and nutrition centers they grew up in.

Dimapur India – How Great Thou Art

God’s timing is so perfect.  Our flight out of Dimapur was delayed by 2 hours, which allowed us to go to church with the children from our Girls Home.  It was a huge blessing.  They asked Cory to preach the morning message.  To see how Komuni is training up these children is a tremendous testimony.  Below is a video of the church singing How Great Thou Art in Nagamese.  The church has members from 12 different tribes from NE India.  It is pretty awesome seeing the diversity.

Pray for us as we head off to Cambodia today.