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Our Itinerary to PNG

 We are busy taking care of final details and packing, while trying to soak up as much family time as possible.  All are excited to be returning home, but saying goodbye to Carrie's family, who all live right nearby, is going to be hard. The young kids have had a great time getting to know their cousins better over these last several months, so they will be missed!

We hope to take off from Dallas/Ft. Worth airport tomorrow at 4:55PM. Lord-willing, about 50 hours later, we will be disembarking from our 3rd flight on Papua New Guinean soil!  Then a final flight up to our home in the Highlands, where we will begin a two week quarantine.  Here are more details on our itinerary (for simplicity, all times are in US Central Time):

• Depart Dallas/Ft. Worth: 1655  - Arrive Doha, Qatar: 0815 (about 15 ½ hours)
• 2 ½ hour layover in Doha
• Depart Doha: 1045  -                   Arrive Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: 1810 (about 7 ½ hours)
• 16 hour layover - we are going to be able to rest in the transit hotel that is in the airport!
• Depart Kuala Lumpur: 12:05 -    Arrive Port Moresby, PNG: 1910.
• Depart Port Moresby: ~2100 -    Arrive Ukarumpa: 2230

We would appreciate your prayers for all the paperwork to be correct and acceptable for the transitions to be smooth, for our luggage to all arrive with us, for the kids to travel well and rest well.  But, most of all, that we would travel with the love of Christ evident in us and that we would handle the unexpected with grace!

Thank you all for your prayers and love!

Here is a picture of our family from last week (thanks to photographer Micah Trostle):

COVID Tests NEGATIVE!

All 8 of our COVID tests came back negative last night! We are so grateful to have the paperwork hurdles over with and we are ready to get on the airplane for PNG tomorrow afternoon! Please pray for some of the other families who were going to be heading back with us that have hit some bureaucratic roadblocks. We've had a few people ask about our itinerary.  I'll post that a little later.  Thank you for all your prayers!