Delayed for a day…but it could have been MUCH worse.

 

Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi, Kenya.

We woke up Tuesday morning to the news that there was a one-day labor strike happening with grounds crew workers at Lufthansa (the German airline we were going to be flying out of Nairobi into Frankfurt on the first leg of our trip.  After going to the airport and back, sending messages, making phone calls, and Pastor Gurath sitting on hold for over an hour we finally got confirmation that our flight for Tuesday night was in fact “delayed” 24 hours till 10:25pm on Wednesday. 

This, of course would cause us to miss our connection to our United Airlines flight back into Chicago. 

Jemima Sagala sent a driver to pick us up and take us back to her house to stay overnight. The Sagala family has been so generous to us throughout this whole trip. We thanked them for their kindness and we thank the Lord!

Well, things got really hairy for a while, but after 3+ hrs on the phone with United (and the agent telling us that it wouldn’t be till Aug. 3rd that we could get a flight home because of this strike in Germany! 😳) we ended up having to refund our flights and after searching and searching miraculously found flights that will get us back to Phoenix Thurs. night at 8:18pm.  So, a day later than planned, but it could have been much, much worse.

The United Airlines agent said that millions of flights have been affected by this strike. We were very fortunate to have found one. God was certainly watching over us! 

Please pray that our Wednesday afternoon flights back to America go smoothly. Hopefully, my next post will be reporting a safe landing back on home soil! 

-Pastor Luke