One day before departure!

It's hard to believe, but I see three bags packed to the gills and still "stuff" to go in them. I'm down to final things of importance - a picture of Jill and Jodi, devotions kept over the years that could be used in teaching, the flash drive, the magazine pictures from the choir and WOTOs, and the familiar travel pocketbook with important documents.

The flight departs Atlanta and after a 15.05 hour direct flight, arrives in Seoul the next day at 5:10pm. Rev. Kim will meet me at Incheon Airport for the 2 hour drive south to Taejon.

Anna Choi, who will be my assistant, has emailed her excitement and after we eat breakfast she's bringing the next morning, she plans to show me the campus, grocery store, how to sort the trash (they have it so refined you even sort soft and hard plastics!), the laundry, and how to operate the washing machine since all the buttons are in Korean. Basic things first!

There have been times today when clouds of anxiousness have crept in - Am I really going to be able to teach the university students how to speak English? Can I teach even basic missiology? Will I be able to do all they want me to do? Then, this afternoon when going through my Bible, the notes from my talk at Pittman Park UMC when leaving for NYC and GBGM fell out. The last lines read: "I do get scared wondering if I'm really going to be able to do what it is He's so perfectly orchestrated up to this point. Oh, I know the answer, but there is apart of me that still wonders - that worries. But I'm confident in one thing - I know this is right - I know I'm supposed to go - and I earnestly seek your prayers as a new door opens." The same is true today!

Stay tuned for news from Taejon.
Jeanie