Saturday, February 15 and Sunday, February 16

Saturday

We are all a bit nervous as we gather at Detroit Metro.  We already are aware that our flight to Newark where we are to connect with Chet Henry and our flight to San Pedro Sula will be delayed by 2 1/2 hours.  The rumor is "Weather" as the cause but we are confused by that as it has been a few days since we have seen snowfall in Detroit.

We are told to board anyway as Newark is a hub and will have more options.  Good news. It wasn't snowing in Newark either.  But, bad news, they really didn't have any good options for us since they hadn't yet recovered from their Wednesday storm.

We finally figured out that if we could drive to the Philadelphia airport, we could get a Sunday night flight to Houston and a Monday morning flight to Honduras.  Not a great solution, but when you have awesome traveling companions, lemons become lemonade.

Peter and Julie remembered that Princeton is within an hour of Newark, AND that some great friends of GPMC live there.  Yes, we are talking about Gordon and Nancy Mikoski.  A phone call to them while we were finalizing our flights was all it took.  By the time we were on the road to meet them for dinner, not only did they have plans to take in some of us, but they had already found lodging with friends for all the rest of our group of eleven.  We enjoyed a great dinner from the "not-to-be-missed" Hoagie Haven, a wonderful night of catching up with dear friends, and an inspirational devotion on the Beatitudes from our own Joe Reed.

This morning brought a tour of Princeton, an adult ed class on the geography of Palestine from Gordon, and worship at Pennington Presbyterian, which is the church Nancy now leads as head of staff.  We enjoyed our visit very much and feel blessed by this detour.

As I write this we are in the air on Sunday night on our way to Houston.  Our overbooked vouchers for this flight and the one tomorrow have become real tickets with seat assignments for ALL of us and we have high hopes of being in San Pedro Sula by noon tomorrow.

Thanks for all you praying for us in Grosse Pointe.  Tonight, we are feeling blessed with great friends - at home - and on this flight - and in Princeton - and waiting for us in Honduras.

We trust our next posting will come from Honduras!

Sue Acton 

   Sue, Joe, and Chet worked for 3 hours in Newark to figure out how to get us to Honduras.

   Peter and one of our hosts and old friend, Gordon Mikoski.

   Nancy and Anna Mikoski, our gracious hosts.