My flight itinerary

Here's my flight itinerary:

Depart - Feb 13 - 1:30pm
Des Moines (DSM) Northwest Airlines 3762
Arrive - Feb 13 - 4:19pm
Detroit, MI (DTW)

Depart - Feb 13 - 5:35pm
Detroit, MI (DTW) Northwest Airlines 68
Arrive - Feb 14 - 7:35am
Amsterdam (AMS)


Depart - Feb 14 - 9:45am
Amsterdam (AMS) Northwest 8449 (KLM)
Arrive - Feb 14 - 10:15pm
Cape Town (CPT)

Please pray that me and my luggage arrive safely!!

January Newsletter

Hello, my friends!

Good news!! We made it!! I am at 100% of upfront expenses and monthly pledges!! I have been released to the field and have purchased my plane tickets. I leave February 13^th! This would not have been possible without your generous giving! Thank you to all of you who have supported me with your pledges and with your prayers through these many months of training and fundraising!

Last month I completed my last required training at Mission Training International (MTI). It was three weeks of intense cross-cultural training. I learned so much that will be invaluable when I get to Cape Town, but the best part was hanging out with fellow missionaries for three weeks. We really bonded and I know I came away with some lifelong friends! See earlier blog entries for more info!

The downside to all this is the many goodbyes I have been saying and will continue to say until I leave! November 19 was my last day of work at SimplexGrinnell and though I don’t miss having to be to work at 8:15am, I do miss my co-workers, many of whom have become good friends! Then I moved back home to my parents house in Washington, IA that weekend, so I am missing my Des Moines buddies. No more small group meetings, no more work projects, no more karaoke, wow, I miss y’all so much! I stopped in Lincoln, NE to say goodbye to my friends there. And then there’s all the family goodbyes! This is harder than I thought, but it’s great feeling your love and support; I will carry that with me as I go!

Please continue to pray for me as I prepare to go these next three weeks and for my safe transport to Cape Town. Also please keep in mind that though I have reached 100% of funding, this is just the bare minimum that I need. The more you give, the more I am able to give to the programs in Cape Town! So please continue to give as you feel led. I am putting together an email prayer network, so if you want to receive these prayer requests and I don’t have your email, let me know at bobbi381@yahoo.com. I know these next two years are going to be an exciting, yet challenging ride; I’m so glad I have all of you backing me up!

Love and God bless you!!

waiting for info for visa....

Hello Friends!

I haven't posted in a few weeks, so I thought it was time I updated y'all! I've been released to the field!! This means I can go ahead and buy my plane tickets and apply more my visa. However, some of the info I need must come from Cape Town and I have not gotten that info. So....I can't apply for my visa and have held off on purchasing my plane tickets. The waiting is making me a bit crazy, but I am trusting in God's timing....perhaps my arrival needs to be delayed for reasons unknown to me....perhaps I have more prep time needed here in the States, more time for goodbyes? Anyway, this is all God's plan and I trust that he will get me to Cape Town at exactly the right moment. That being said, I would appreciate your prayers that I would hear from Cape Town soon and get the ball rolling for my visa and can purchase my plane tickets! For those of you in Des Moines, I wanted to let you know I'll be there the weekend of Jan 19-21, I hope to see as many of you as possible! I'll post as soon as I have more info on exactly when I'll be leaving...until then, God bless you all!!