Thank you for praying for the container packed.  Here is a portion of the letter sent to all missionaries who had items on the container.

Dear Colleagues,

I can’t believe it but the final box went into the container about 2:30 this afternoon!  That means everyone’s boxes are on this container!  Yes, your read that correctly, even those who were to be on the second container.  We had 7 people show up to help load the container and things went a lot faster  and tighter than I had anticipated.  Actually we had a surprise,  Thursday afternoon, Jo and I were at the warehouse moving things around and getting ready for today when we heard someone banging at the back door.  Jo went to see who it was and low and behold it was the driver for the truck with the container wondering where I wanted the container!  I couldn’t believe he was there and the driver said his dispatcher had told him he had called me and I said to bring the container!  I never received such a call.  So, we were a little surprised (pleasantly).  Friday, afternoon, Jo and I began loading boxes onto the container and had a good head start for this morning.  After breakfast with the people who came to help, we got to work and couldn’t believe how fast it went.  There was only one injury.  The fellow (a good friend of mine and professor at Cornerstone) tore a tendon on his arm.  Not sure what is going to happen or when he will have to have surgery for that.  Please be in prayer for Dr. Adams.

What does this mean for the second container?  Well, there is a lot more space on that container than we anticipated but not to worry, we have a lot of stuff the hospital where Jo works that has given us that we can fairly easily fill the container.  So, please don’t have anything sent as we need to take some time off before we leave.  If there is actually an emergency for something, please contact me and we’ll see what can be done.

This container will be picked up on Tuesday morning and head to port from there.  As soon as I have any information on what is happening with the container, I will let you know.

To view pictures of the packing, stop by the gallery and check out container packing.