Be Flexible

One of the things David Nimmons told us at our last Kenya meeting was to be flexible. We got an email on Tuesday night that our flight for next Thursday, June 11 has been canceled by Delta. I guess I could have checked the Atlanta paper but decided to read the Daily Nation from Kenya.

Seems this direct flight from Atlanta to Nairobi, Kenya with one stop in Senegal was a brand new flight just added by Delta. They recently opened an office in Kenya in anticipation of this new venture. A government official from Kenya had come to the US and met with the Kenyan ambassador to the US in Washington DC. They were about to board a plane for Atlanta on Tuesday, June 2, for a big to do to launch the very first flight when Homeland Security told them the flight had to be canceled. It was so sudden that neither the US Ambassador in Kenya nor the Kenya government was notified of the cancellation. It actually showed up on Twitter first, I think.

Seems there had been a terrorist threat by someone who said he would shoot the plane down with a shoulder mount missile launcher. About 7 years ago some al Qaeda (sp?) guy tried to shoot down an Israeli airliner in Mombasa in southern Kenya. Although he was not successful, a building or something got hit and 15 people died.

So now Delta is working to reroute us through somewhere so we can still go to Kenya next week. We are BELIEVING it WILL happen. This is God's trip and He will work it all out as He sees best. So I am still preparing, packing, getting ready for one of the most adventurous trips of my life. Can't wait to see what God will do.