Packing and Praying

Tomorrow the team meets to weigh and tag our luggage and to continue to pray over the trip before we depart on Friday. Prayer requests for this last stage of preparation:

• safe & smooth travels
  "He led them in safety, so that they were not afraid..." Psalm 78:53
  
• that we would not fret but would entrust ourselves, and the myriad details involved in pulling off this departure, to God
  "...do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God" Philippians 4:6
  
• wisdom and forbearance in whatever circumstances arise in transit
  "Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others." Philippians 2:4
  
• that the busyness and excitement of these days of preparation wouldn't distract us from abiding in Jesus
  "Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me." John 15:4
  
• health (a number of us are recovering from pretty bad coughs)
  "But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us." 2 Corinthians 4:7