Challenge Challenges

You know that you are doing a good thing when obstacles keep popping up.  We leave in two days, and as most of my major projects go, it comes down to the wire with making sure that every little detail is thought of and taken cared of.  This one is no exception. 

Our team met last for a final preparation meeting, but after I found out that the shuttle that the conference provides from the airport would drop us off at the Convention Center.  Now, for those of you not familiar with our planning quirks, our group ended up booking rooms at one of the three farthest hotels from the Convention Center.  Translation, we would be hauling our luggage for 5-7 blocks to get to our hotel.  We all agreed that we needed to go with Plan B...Super Shuttle.  But as God would have it, He intercedes again to take care of that.  I emailed the transportation person, Jon Rees, this morning to let him know that we would make alternate arrangements from the airport to hotel.  Immediately, I get a response that they will drop our groups off directly at the hotel.  He's making an exception, since he can't see us spending any more money.  Praise God for our brothers at Challenge!

As I'm reading through the Challenge facebook page, I realize that the many difficulties we encounter are so small compared to what others are going through to get there.  Here's what one teen is facing:

Wednesday...Special Urgent Request - A Teen from India is planning to join us for Challenge as part of our GlobalFingerprints Initiative and other things. He has his visa interview tonight. Please pray that his visa is approved and he can join us on Monday.

Thursday...Just got word...Ravi was denied His visa. We'll trust God has His best in mind for Challenge and Ravi. Thanks for praying!!

Just a reminder to us that God challenges each of us in different ways, but no matter what, there's always someone, somewhere, that may be facing more difficulties than we are.  Our transportation problem was so small compared to what Ravi is facing.