W.O.L. 2016 Day 1 & 2: Philippines here we come

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Our Philippines Word of Life missions trip met up at Lansing Bible Church and headed out Friday February 5th at 6:30 AM Chicago time! We arrived to the airport with no problems! A big thank you goes out to our LBC shuttle crew! Hopefully they will be there when we get back! 🙂 Then we just waited of our highly anticipated departure flight.

Our flight from O’Hare left at 10:55 AM.

After about a 12 hour flight with Japan Airlines we landed in at the Narita International Airport in Tokyo Japan to catch our joining flight. We arrived in Japan at 1 AM Chicago time, but it was 4 in the afternoon in Tokyo Japan. Some of us rested while others explored the airport.
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After our layover and 5 hour flight we arrived in Manila Philippines around midnight their time, praise the Lord we arrived safely! Members of the Word Of Life staff were there to pick us up and drive us back to camp, where we grabbed a few hours of sleep before church on Sunday morning.

On Sunday we met the other members of our work team that we were meeting up at the Philippines:

Katie Aardsma
Gordon & Marjorie Broadbent
Allen Fugate
Derek Gladstone
Steve Neubauer
Gary & Kathy Ooserkamp
Mark Ooserkamp
Craig & Mary Porter
Tommy Schnoor
Randy & Collen VanProoyen

At Mountain View Church we were given the opportunity to sing 2 songs and Pastor was given the opportunity to preach at the Mountain View Church which most members of the W.O.L. staff attend.

After lunch on Sunday we met up with the Executive Director of Word of Life Philippines Mike Van Prooyen and he gave us an orientation and tour of the camp. We got to see the locations of the projects that our work team would be working on.

Sunday night most of us went to bed early to recover from the jet lag, as we anticipated the work week beginning Monday morning!
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Our trips secretary got her own cabbin, with 6 beds to choose from. 🙂

Walking around WOL Camp grounds

Another shot of the W.O.L. Philippines camp grounds.

On Sunday we met up with the other members of our work team. Katie Aardsma Gordon & Marjorie Broadbent Allen Fugate Derek Gladstone Steve Neubauer Gary & Kathy Ooserkamp Mark Ooserkamp Craig & Mary Porter Tommy Schnoor Randy & Collen VanProoyen