Fun Dinner and Africa

So today we had our first Africa Team Meeting and it went really well. It was a bit of an information dump, but there was a lot to communicate. I told them about the Travel Warnings and they weren't freaked out or anything.

Then we had dinner at Matt and Marie Doan's house and Tim and Natalie Nellis came too. Matt is the High School Pastor at Calvary and Tim used to be an Associate in High School Ministry and is now the youth pastor at Rancho Bernardo Baptist Church. Marie is the serious Barefoot Contessa. Awesome food. The weigh-in will probably be problematic tomorrow. The creamed corn and the flourless chocolate cake with a raspberry sauce and chocolate chip ice cream were my favorites. The Spinach-Artichoke dip was delicious too. Everything looked beautiful. Such great hosts!!

Tim and Natalie took high school students to Kenya with the same organization we are going with last summer. They also just got back from a two week trip to Kenya about a week ago. They were contemplating becoming full-time missionaries there, but have decided that this is not the right time for that in their lives. They were able to tell us all about the places we would go and even had a cool video and some pictures. It made me start to get really excited about the trip, but it's also making Bea get kinda nervous. I feel bad about it, but I'm committed to taking all these people and I really feel like God wants me to do this, so what can I do? If you are in SoCal in the middle of August and you know my wife, then help keep an eye on her and our two kids!!