Saturday, April 25 just after 3:30 PM –
Dudlley and I are 5 hours and 57 minutes into our trip – and awaiting our boarding call (in an hour) for Singapore Air to Singapore (via Moscow) and sitting here in Houston (been here since 11 AM)…. Just practicing for our 2 – 10 hour flights… - o’yeah, then the short flights to Medan, Indonesia and then on to Banda, Aceh – total trip time… roughly 36 hours from Dallas - whooowhooo!!
We are pumped! We got thru checkin and security with our 2 bags of clothes, etc and two bags of tools. We were ready to explain, but nobody asked…. Just as we were checking in to Singapore Air, a friend of Dudley’s from Frisco, called out his name. Josh, a 26 year old weight lifter – boxer – arm wrestler – and various other body strength abilities – is on our flight (we are safe!) enroute to Thailand to continue his professional career in kick-boxing. Josh has a wonderful heart for the Lord, with a bent on beating on people in a cage….Our trip has taken it’s first very interesting turn.
- Banda Aceh Playground
- The tsunami of 2004 was the result of the second strongest earthquake ever recorded. The province of Aceh in Indonesia was the hardest hit area of any in southeast Asia. Over 125,000 Acehnese were killed and that many more were missing. Compassion Frisco was formed as a humanitarian agency to work among the tsunami survivors. Mayor Simpson and the city council sent a proclamation to the mayor of Banda Aceh declaring our city's sympathy, and affirming Compassion Frisco as an organization wanting to provide long term service with partners there. Compassion Frisco was birthed out of Preston Trail Community Church. Over the past four years teams have gone to work with partners on the ground there in wholistic community development, empowering women, medical care, trauma counseling and athletics. For the next two weeks John Taylor and Dudley Raymond will be in Aceh to oversee the installation of complex playground equipment to be installed in a new park in Banda Aceh. The equipment was bought and shipped to Aceh from the states. Pray for them in these efforts.
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