Colombia Day 1

The Global Impact team from Firewheel Church has arrived! We made it through an early flight to Miami, an afternoon flight to Barranquilla and to the Hotel Majestic and out to dinner with all of our Firewheel team members.

The trip itself was a journey. A long layover in Miami was a bit tiring and the flight on Avianca Airlines to Barranquilla left late, but was a smooth flight with some added "smoke" effect from the AC in the plane.

Customs in Barranquilla is a crazy experience. You stand in one line to get stamped as incoming to the country, then go get your luggage to stand in another line. That line ends with having your luggage scanned and a determination of whether you will need a more "comprehensive" search through your bags. If you want any information about this process, ask Pastor Doug, he was pulled out for about a 30 minute inspection of his bags, specifically a box of Evangecubes, where they looked at each of the 50 or so cubes before letting him into the country.

After an exciting and unusual ride from the airport, we got all 70 of us checked into the hotel and got our luggage sorted and up to everyone's room.

We had some wonderful conversation over dinner with some of the national translators and some great Colombia style food. You can certainly tell that the nationals are very excited that we are here and ready to maximize using us throughout the week.

Tomorrow morning we start with a team meeting at 7am and worship at one of the local churches.

Keep us in prayer throughout the week. This is going to be a wonderful week and God has some amazing plans for us.

I will post some pics tomorrow. The internet connection is a little slow from the room.