John's Mission Trip

John left this morning for a mission trip to the South Pacific--Guadalcanal Island in the Solomons, east of Papua New Guinea. These photos are from this website. They look sort of "'way back in time," but the photos John took on his last trip there are similar. It still looks so lost in time. You might remember from history studies (or, if you are old enough, from the news stories) of Bloody Ridge. The last time John was there (in 2000 or 2001), he and Randy English preached in a church building up on Bloody Ridge. John has studied a lot about World War II, and it meant a lot to him to be up there.

This is John's first mission trip since 9/11--the last was in July 2001--and he's glad to be back in the groove of things. He'll be back home on February 6.

This morning, JT and Luci and I took John to the airport. Bryan stayed home, but got his hugs in before we left. Yawn!

Luci was not very happy saying goodbye to Daddy. She wants to get on a plane, too.
True feelings come out on the way home--or maybe it's just Luci's silliness!