Today is the day,

We're Off to Great Places, We're Off and Away!!

After a bitter sweet emotional send off from our church family this morning we will once again journey back to India!!  Bitter because our beloved friends and would be travel companions, Lora and John (better known to us as Mr. and Mrs. HeadBuck), had to cancel their plans due to health issues.  
This saddens us as we will miss them immensely, 
but more so we pray for renewed health and patience during this long process. 
(even though Lora says never pray for patience :)
Sweet because we feel so much love!

Yes, some of us have our PJ's on as the Sunday between
Christmas and New Years is always designated as
Jammie Sunday at our church! :)

So what does this mean for us; well, we're on our own.  
Our small group just got smaller as it will simply be our family traveling this time around.  Although the dynamics of the trip will be different, we are confident that it will still be meaningful and valuable to both our family and the ministry.

We are incredibly excited to see all the Indian children and people that we hold so near and dear to our hearts, as well as all the new additions to the buildings that have taken place since our last visit in 2013.  
We look forward to this opportunity to share with you all the good works that are being done to improve the day to day lives of the people in Madhavapatnam and the futures of the young "shine brites" who attend Marshall School.  We will do our best to make regular posts on this blog and invite you to follow along by either signing up on the right for updates or manually checking in at your leisure.  Also, we'd love to hear from you so feel free to leave us a comment after our posts.

Again, thank you to all who's love and support 
has helped make this journey possible;

you are in our hearts as we travel and always!!!!

Namaste'

~Jenny

Big Bob, Emma, Jo, Loobie, and Sophie too!!

p.s. In case you'd like to see what our travel plans look like,
this is what it takes to get to and from Madhavapatnam...
fyi, India is approx 12 hours ahead of WI time

Sunday Dec 28 – Leave Kewaskum 3:00pm

Sunday Dec 28 - Leave Chicago 8:10pm 

Monday Dec 29 – Arrive Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates 7:30pm

Monday Dec 29 – Leave Abu Dhabi 9:40pm 

Tuesday Dec 30 – Arrive Hyderabad India 3:10am

Tuesday Dec 30 – Leave Hyderabad India 8:55am 

Tuesday Dec 30 – Arrive Rajahmundry India 10:15am

Tuesday Dec 30 – Leave Rajahmundry India with Novahu on bus

Tuesday Dec 30 – Arrive Village of Madhavapatnam approx 1:00pm 

  

Thursday Jan 8 – Leave Rajahmundry India 2:30pm

Thursday Jan 8 – Arrive Hyderabad India 4:00pm

Friday Jan 9 – Leave Hyderabad India 4:25am

Friday Jan 9 – Arrive Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates 7:15am

Friday Jan 9 – Leave Abu Dhabi 9:30am

Friday Jan 9 – Arrive Chicago 2:50pm

Friday Jan 9 – Home Sweet Home