Ready To Go

Our team is assembled, we have our visas and our plane tickets and are excited to step out to see what God has in store for us in the Amazon this year. We will pack our suitcases on Tuesday, May 26, and then board a Peoria Charter shuttle to O'Hare in the evening of May 27. We will overnight near O'Hare and then fly to Miami Thursday morning, May 29. The evening of May 29 we will fly to Manaus, Brazil, 3 degrees south of the equator. Our hope is to have our heads on pillows by 5:00 AM Friday morning to catch a few hours of sleep before we begin the day in Manaus.

Our plans are to be in Manaus through Sunday evening and then depart for the jungle on Monday morning. We do not have a final destination identified yet but believe that it will be up the Rio Negro from Manaus. We will live on the Discovery boat in the jungle for the week and return to Manaus late Friday. While in the jungle village, we hope to help build a church, do VBS activities with the village children, give clothing to the families in the village and do crafts with the women. We also hope to have a small medical clinic as one of our team members is a physician.

Our team will board a plane in Manaus for Miami on Saturday, June 7, and continue on to Chicago for a very late Saturday evening arrival at O'Hare. We value your prayers for our team as well as the pastors, missionaries, friends and translators (Portuguese is the native language of Brazil) who live and work in Manaus. Please also pray for the people in the jungle village where we will work - that many would come to know Christ as their personal savior.