Congo Team Itinerary

And they're off! The Congo team (Martin Schlomer, Cal Kierum, and Linda McCoy) departed SeaTac Airport this morning about 7:30 a.m.

Winging their way across the country, they landed in Newark, New Jersey shortly after lunchtime. They then boarded a 777 bound for Paris. (Their current position over the Atlantic, as this is being written, is shown at left.) They are scheduled to arrive in the city of romance about 8 a.m. local time, tomorrow morning (in the middle of our night). Please pray they are able to get good rest on the overnight Atlantic crossing.

If all goes well, after three hours in Charles De Gaulle Airport, they will board an Air France Airbus A-330 for the seven-hour flight to Kinshasa, the capital city on the western edge of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The team anticipates spending two nights and all day Friday with the EV Free Church mission in Kinshasa, before boarding a commuter flight Saturday morning to Gemena, a city in the northwest portion of the Congo and near their eventual destination of Tandala Hospital.

One encouraging answer to prayer for Cal: He had purchased a ticket for the Paris-to-Kinshasa leg but it was overbooked and he had no confirmed seat on this flight. He thought he was going to have to schedule an alternative flight. But Kim reports that the team left together from Newark, on the same flight, and that Cal had gotten a confirmed seat on the Paris-to-Kinshasa leg after all.

We'll do our best to keep you posted. If you have any questions or comments for the team, please provide them here by clicking on the "# Comments" link below.