Can you believe it? It is snowing! Here I am one day away from leaving for Liberia and the temperature is in the 30's and it is snowing. Wow! I'm not quite ready to go from cold temps like this to the 90+ degree weather we will have in Liberia.

Ernie Perry, Darryl Hunnelley, and myself depart tomorrow afternoon at 3:55 PM for Liberia. We are not quite sure what we are getting ourselves into. We will arrive in Monrovia, Liberia (the capital city) late on Friday evening. Stay there in a hotel that night and then travel (5-6 hours) over some of the worst roads imaginable to the city of Ganta, where we will be teaching pastors and ministry leaders at their annual convention.

We are not even quite sure how many people will attend? The last count we had was that it may be as many as 450-500 people. We are not sure what our hotel will be like or what kind of restaurants they have? Oh, well. Hopefully, the hotel will have internet capability and we should be able to post some notes and pictures on a daily basis. My backup plan is to find out from our host who will pick us up at the airport if our hotel will or will not have internet. If it doesn't, I will have them take us to a cell provider and buy a "data stick" and a card with some airtime on it and use that to connect to the internet while we are there.

I emailed my Lead Like Jesus handout to our host in Liberia yesterday and asked him to make copies for all those who will be attending the conference. He emailed me this morning, told me that he did not have any problems opening the file, and will get copies made for us. He concluded his email by saying that he "was anxiously awaiting our arrival". We too are anxiously awaiting to see what God has in store for us in Liberia.

Thanks in advance for your prayers. We will need them. I will try to keep you updated on a regular basis and should be able to post and update once we arrive in Monrovia on Saturday evening.

God bless!

Fred