Two more days...

...and we are all excited! I just packed 40 bars of chocolate flight- and melting prooved together with all the other small presents for the Wiedenest missionaries. And while working on this, I just finished everything and packed my stuff also.
This picture is from last year; Roland on the left helped a lot initiating the Mendok Project. Sam and me (Dameria) have the great privilege to help to get it into practice.
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Only 4 more days!

This weekend I passed the Frankfurt airport twice and there was this prickeling feeling in my stomach... Now it is not long anymore till the trip starts! These last days it got more and more important for us to really prepare this trip in prayer. Tonight we met with friends and prayed, it was both good and encouraging. Now we are really excited and full of expectations what God will do... What He already did: do you remember the story with the chocolate for this children's home? We not only got 40, but one hundred bars of chocolate! I love these simple littel side stories where God schows His greatness through small little things. And this great God is on our side!

Half of the Team...

Mendok's school in Lupra

... struggles really bad with their health and the other half is filled up with work until their head. This sentence of course is put into a different perspective if one is aware that the team only consists of two people :-) But anyhow we are thankful for every single prayer.
Until we can post new pics there is one again from Mendok's school in Lupra, more than 9.800 feet high. We are so looking forward to meet our friends there. Only 12 more days till the plane leaves...

German Chocolate and other things

Only 15 more days... and by now we start to think about such things as packing lists, what dates we have to confirm, what we have to get done. For example to buy toothpaste. Because we don't take a lot of things, we told the people of the Wiedenest Mission that we could take smaller items to Nepal for them. One of the young women, who works in a children's home in Nepal, asked us to bring 40 bars of Ritter Sport chocolate as farewell gift for her kids. Ritter Sport is a famous German brand. And because this company is located in South Germany (where I am from) I called there to ask. Thankfully they donate the 40 bars to us.
Please pray for health for us - at the school where I work almost everybody seems to be sick and I don't feel well at all today.

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Our Travel Route

to Nepal leads us via Oman - but we are not worried by the news you here these days about this little desert state next to the Arabic Sea. We will have a layover in Muscat, the capital city, both at the trip to and back from Nepal. Right now there are no demonstrations there. But to be so close and directly connected to this part of the world makes me not only think twice but also pray for the situation in the Arabic World right now.
Yesterday a friend of mine pointed out, that all the countries where the people raise against oppression and for democracy these days are all located in the 10/40 window. This summarizes countries - except Northern America - who are not reached with the Gospel and where Christians most of the time suffer prosecution.

Grafik: Word for the World Radio, April 2006

The term "10/40 window" is applied to the location of these countries between the 10th and 40th northern latitude. About 97 % of all unreached people groups live there and 82 % of the poorest of the poor as well as the main part of all Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists (source: Velberter Mission e.V.). Not only Oman, but also Nepal is located in the 10/40 window. For me this is a new challenge to pray for the people and the Christians there!

Travel Nerves

Is this the right English word? I'm not sure... there is a similar one in German that means that you can't wait to start your trip... and it starts in 42 days. The preparation for the travel gets more into detail. We booked the flights in Nepal. There is a Christian family in Pokhara who owns a small hotel and a travel agency. Phil, the owner, is a friend of a family from our church and also of Herbert from Forum Wiedenest. Phil does all the travel issues for us; we will also stay with them when we are in Pokhara. Herbert will be in Nepal ahead of us and he will get in contact with Mendok's family again so they know for sure the dates when we will pick them up.
"Real" news will be posted here at April. Which doesn't mean we stop posting, to check the blog is worth it anyways.

Update

After the "cash chek" yesterday we found out that we have an overage at the finances for the project. That means we have more money than we calculated for all the costs and expenses. Good news indeed!
Anyhow people keep asking: "Can we still donate something?" This results in the question: what happens with the money that will be left after April? The answer: we for sure will spend it on the people of Mustang. Maybe through another outreach, another help project or through whatever God puts on our hearts.

We are totally overwhelmed and thankful and very, very excited what God has in store! And we will re-name this blog into "the adventure called Mendok Project" :-)
At the moment we are busy with travel preparations and arrangements - booking lodging and inland flights - and we are thankful for each prayer (see right side).