Going Back Home

Dear Family and Friends,

It's been a packed summer; time to go back to Africa for some rest!

We will ride with wonderful friends to Chicago on Sept. 7th. Our flight leaves at 10:15 p.m. for an 11 hour trip to Istanbul, Turkey. After a 2 hour layover, we'll fly for 7 1/2 more hours to Dar-es-salaam, arriving at 2:35 a.m. on Sunday. Then we'll sleep for a day and night and be up at 4 a.m. on Monday for a 13 hour bus ride to Mbeya, where the school's dump truck will pick us up for a 2 hour ride to the Idigima school campus and home!!

We would appreciate your prayers for our safe travel and renewed relationships at the school. There will be new teachers and new students with whom we hope to have spiritual influence.

We'll keep you posted as best we can throughout the year. We've decided to send blog notices once a month, so unless you log on more often, there may be more than one update waiting for you.

May God bless your ministries wherever God has planted you. Tell us how we can pray for you.

Love and hugs,

Gary and Joanne Grenell

Update arrived on 09/09/2013:  We have arrived safely in Dar (2:35 a.m.) and got to the hotel by 5:00. Slept until 10:30 and had breakfast. Lunch at 2:00 and tour with our escort of some of the downtown sites and water front. We will leave the hotel around 5 a.m. for our bus trip. No pics. Our traveling companions are from CO, WA and MI. They've all traveled Africa before, so not many surprises. We are all excited to be here and the opportunities God will provide.