Faithful~

God is so faithful!  Chuck and I were presented with a dilemma.  The 10 seats for our trip to Zambia needed to be secured ASAP.  The security deposit was $2500.00 for all 10 seats.  Chuck and I had $500.00 and that wasn't even enough to secure our own seats!  We discussed this on a Thursday night, not quite sure what we were going to do.  How were we going to be able to get $2500.00 to secure 10 seats for a team that was not even complete yet!  Chuck had placed a call to Joey to ask if there was a possibilty of StoneWater fronting the security deposity and I reluctantly checked into the credit cards as an option.  Chuck and Joey played telephone tag for 3 days and the credit card option was not an option at all! 

Monday morning I went to the mail box, and guess what was in it?....a $1000.00 CHECK refund from our house escrow!  So we had $1500.00 of the $2500.00 needed.  Tuesday morning, my friend Beth from Mission Air Travel called me to check and see how things had gone over the weekend.  I told her about the check, but that we were still in the same place financially!  She then told me she had some news..her Kenya Airways rep had already reserved our seats, but we would need to get the deposit to her by the end of next week.  I was excited to know our price was locked in and our seats reserved even though we didnt have the full amount to send yet!  Then,,,, she told me she negotiated the deposit to be paid in two portions, $150 per seat now and $100 per seat due December 15. 

We had $1500.00!!!  Seats and price secured! Oh and we have 8 people committed to go!!  Our first information meeting....well, its this Sunday, November 21st!!!