Travel Day(s) - We've Arrived!

FSBCS South Africa Mission Team #4 in the PHX airport

After a LONG journey on Friday and Saturday, we have arrived in Pretoria!  Once we got Keith past the TSA in Phoenix, where he was "randomly selected" and privileged to spend some time in the Special Screening Room, we jetted off to Atlanta.  From there, we quickly switched terminals and boarded our 15-hour flight to Johannesburg!
We were greeted in the "Jo-berg" airport by Pastor Julius and a few helpers.  In addition to our personal luggage for our 12-day journey, we each also brought a 50 lb bag filled with glasses, sunglasses, bibles and books and pre-school ministry materials that we will be distributing (glasses) or leaving behind for use by Hope Baptist Church, so we needed a little help in hauling all of those items.  We were blessed in that we had no troubles with customs or security (outside of Keith's fun in Phoenix, which we're sure he'll tell you about if you ask him sometime) throughout this journey.

After a short ride to Pretoria, we checked into our accommodations and went out for a nice dinner with Pastor Julius.  Tomorrow is Sunday, so we will participate in the Sunday services at Hope Baptist Church in Sunnyside, Pretoria.

Note the clock on the right side of this blog that will tell you what the current time is in South Africa as you're reading. 9 hours ahead of Phoenix, so it is 11:30pm in SA as we're typing this.

Check back for more soon! 

Here are a few more pictures from today (click once on the pictures to enlarge):

 



Katie, Mel & Antoine enjoying a "short" ride









Keith claimed he was working on the
Passion Play script -- the high altitudes
must have been inspiring!











Boarding in Atlanta for the L-O-N-G one...



 



Mona, Kevin, Keith & our new friend Emmanuel at dinner