anticipating adventure... in ethiopia!

in 6 days i'll be on my way to ethiopia. yeah, that's right... ethiopia. and to be honest with you i don't even know how to prepare. i, mean, besides pack my bag, get my shots, snag a visa, and pray. it's not as if i can simulate the smells, the sights, the emotions.

i'm going over there with a team of 8 people and we're going to "build a wall"... or so we intend. there is a school there, bright hope school, that we've been supporting (we as in journey church). we've helped fund a well (a huge deal), a garden, chicken coups, chickens, chicken feed, and wall material. this wall is going to surround the school compound and property.

bright hope is in the middle of a nasty neighborhood in addis ababa. therefore, the wall is needed for protection. and that's where our team comes in. all i know about the building process for this wall is that the ethiopians do it old school. dig a trench. crush rock for cement. that kind of thing. again, how can i prepare for such a process? (i'm bringing work gloves and i'm doing lots of push-ups and crunches).

obviously, i don't know much. but what i do know- i need your help. and it's simple, really. could you pray for our team? think about our team? send good thoughts to our team? whatever it is you might do, could you do it for our team? because my hope is that we humbly enter another culture and another country and somehow make a difference... thanks in advance!