Life lessons...

Update on the missions trip! Yeah God! Yesterday, 24 leaders and students gathered together to begin training and begin to prepair our hearts for our missions trip to California. Friday started off awesome, and training went great! Everyone's bags came in under weight (bags needed to be 50 pounds or less) with Cori K., and Jamie P. have the lowest weight for the girls (both a little over 30 lbs.) and Drake F. having the lightest for the guys (13 lbs which is pure amazement). We spent last night in worship and prayer, and it was an amazing time where we could all feel God and His Spirit in the room around us.

Then this morning hit...and I learned a life lesson. We were scheduled to leave the church around 6:30am this morning (which meant a 5:45am wake up call for all the team) to drive to the airport and leave on our flight at 9:17am for Los Angles. A little after 6:35am we loaded up in 2 vans and headed to the airport. As we pulled out of the church, someone asked me the exact time that our plane left. I reached down and pulled out the tickets, and felt my heart come to a stop. The ticket said that our flight left MSP at 7:25am. I have looked a bunch of times at the flight, and for some reason have always seen the 9:17am arrival time in Los Angles as when we left. It was my fault and a huge mistake. As a group we began to pray like crazy, and as Nate K. called Delta to see what we could do, I felt like a fool. Apparently I need a lesson in how to read....

To make a long story short, or at least shorter, God worked some amazing things out for us. Delta was able to change all of our tickets to a flight later today (also waving the $50 per person transfer fee) and keep us all on the same flight AND still as a direct flight to LAX. We now fly on Delta flight 2321 that leaves MSP at 7:25pm tonight. The lady that helped us at the ticket counter could not have been more helpful. She bent over backwards to help us out. It was truly amazing after basically being blown off on the phone call Nate made to Delta.

It has been a crazy morning and God has been good. We are currently resting at Nate K. parents house near the MSP airport and taking naps as we get ready for the now night of travel that we have facing us. Thanks so much for the prayers! We needed them in a huge way this morning. Please feel free to contact me for more information if you want it. We will let you know ASAP with any changes that will now take place with our return flights (looks like some of our times are changing). Please continue to pray for us and that everything works out as we get to LAX and go through the car rental process.

Josh C.