Big News About My Trip!!!

I have some very exciting news to share with all of you about my tirp to Poland.

I went over to Ayla's house last night to watch "Schindler's List" before we left for Poland. I get there, and Bob (Ayla's dad, the director of our trip) calls Ayla and I into his office and has us take a seat. His wife, Jane, comes in the room and they close both the doors.

I thought for sure something major was messed up with our trip. So, Bob looks at us and says, "Guys, I hate to say this...but the trip has been canceled...just kidding!" It was a good thing I was wearing my big boy pull-ups because I think I slightly wet myself!

After that scare, Bob got to the serious part of our meeting. Apparently, when Bob meet with the other directors, they planned out out trip with the camp, and made all the necessary reservations and what not.

Things were looking good, and we got all of our info and the who deal taken care of. But, what we didn't know is that the directors of the camp in Krakow (where we will be staying in Poland, also where the majority of the movie "Schindler's List" takes place) decided to swap their outreach week and their media week...and they forgot to tell us! Yeah, major mistake on their parts.

That mistake happened in January...which was 6 months ago. So, Bob got a phone call yesterday morning form the directors of the camp. They had been reviewing our itenary and all of our plans and realized that we were supposed to be there for the media week, but we were actually going to be there for the outreach week...which was a basketball camp...not much media in that!

The director of the camp felt really bad about what had happened, so he gave us a few solutions to our problem.

Our overall project has changed...we are going to be working with a local, more modern church, on producing some illustrational teaching videos...like the Rob Bell Nooma series. We will also be shooting some footage for the camp and producing a promo for them about all the camps they do.

The second part of the solution...the AMAZING part...is that the director offered to keep us out there for a second week...which will be the media week! He is going to pay for our room and board, and the price that it will cost to change out tickets.

This extended our trip from 10 days to 18 days!

Satan tried to make our trip fall apart, but God had a better plan for us! We are so excited about being able to stay for both weeks of camp. Such an amazing experience.

As of now, Ayla and I are the only two students who can officaly stay for the second week. The team from Arizona has to leave because of prior commitments, and we are not sure if our friend J.T. will be able to stay with us or not!

This is such an amazing opporutinty...and I am so excited to embark on it!

Thanks for all the support and prayer!

Enjoy the stories...

Alex