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Thursday, March 11, 2010

Off to Chile! Well plans have been forming and finally I’m off to another adventure. As usual, detailed planning is not the ‘word of the day’, and instead its all about “flexibility” and “openness to serve”. Vanessa and I (a good friend of mine from Brazil) are making South America unsafe for a few months, with our first stop being Pichilemu, Chile. We originally idyllically planned this as our first stop, thinking a nice visit to my brother on the coasts of the Pacific would be a good, slow way to immerse ourselves in Spanish-speaking Latin America…In other words, we planned a mini holiday before the real work was to begin doing volunteer work in Bolivia.
Well, what do you know….I booked my flight on Wednesday, and Ness on Friday, and on Saturday of the same week we tune into the news that an 8.8 earthquake hit Chile. What??!!! Needless to say, we were as shocked as everyone else, and our plans have thus taken a quick turn.
SO, as I type I’m at the airport in Madrid, Vanessa is to be en-route shortly, and if all goes according to plan (?) we will meet my brother in Santiago tomorrow, from there heading about 4 hours down the coast. There, we will promptly be set to work I’m told, to help out however we can with relief efforts.
What a turn of events! I sincerely hope that in the coming time we can serve the people effected by the quake in whatever capacity, and that we will be put to good use. But needless to say, we are sorely feeling our inadequacy for any such task at this point. Let’s see how God choose to guide this journey, as all planning is obviously not in our hands anymore J.
I will try to post updates on my blog, so if your interested, check it out every now and then!

1 comment:

  1. Wow, that is quite the turn of events! Too bad for the holiday, but awsome you get to serve this way. I'm sure there's a lot of impressions lining up for you there. Take care and much blessings!

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