Today I received some very sad news from home...a sweet little 2 year old girl named Alivia Rachel Haughery went home to be with the Lord after a tough fight with Luekemia. Her grandparents, Bill and Cynthia Haughery, are dear friends of ours, and my heart is aching as I cry out to the Lord for His comfort and strength for this family. Even if you don't know them, please pray for James and Emily (Alivia's Daddy and Mommy) and for both of their families as they grieve the passing of this precious little girl. We rejoice for little Livi, who is pain free and no longer struggling to breathe, and is resting safely in the arms of the Saviour, but her loved ones are aching and hurting from a great loss. Thanks for your prayers.
Beth
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Here is the luggage story and a soccer story from my brother Doug -
After 3 days of communicating with South African Airways officials we were convinced that our luggage had actually arrived at the Lusaka airport and equally convinced that they had no plans to deliver it to us. So, we left at 5:00 AM and headed to the airport. At 10:30 AM we arrived at the airport and nobody seemed to know where we should go or who we should talk to. Finally we found a closet-sized room with a small sign ‘South African Airways’ on it. We explained our situation to a man behind a desk and he took us to a place where some luggage was. After telling him our luggage was not there, we followed him through a series of 2-3 more locked doors and we were face to face with locked up baggage carts that you see moving from
plane to plane at airports.
He unlocked the cart for us and there were hundreds of pieces of luggage inside. We were told to try to find our seven pieces. Fortunately, after digging through many suitcases we found them. The amazing thing- the security officer with us never checked to see if we actually had the claim tickets for those baggages, and at the customs window a few minutes later they waived us right through. So after waiting several days to get our suitcases, we walked in and out of the airport, picked out 7 pieces of luggage and never had anyone check to see if they were actually ours! Doubt that would ever happen in the States!
Brent and I got to participate in a pick-up football (soccer) game the other day with some talented high-schoolers. They invited us back anytime so I guess we held our own, but the skill we saw from those bare-foot soccer players was phenomenal. Even though they were playing on a large field with regulation goals, they still set up bricks about 4 feet apart that are the real goals. They scored plenty of goals. Their ball-control skills are outstanding. These students are competitive and play hard - but the smiles never leave their faces. They play for the love of the game. It's one game I'm sure I'll never forget.
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