After 40+ Hours, We’re STILL On Our Way Home

Hola! Yes, we are still in Costa Rica on a journey of a lifetime. We are currently scheduled for a 7 am departure Monday, and we appreciate your continued prayers.

For this post, we thought some quick reactions from our youth would be a good way to illustrate how things are going during our 41-hour flight delay.

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Mackenzie: “41 hour delay”

Tanner: “if I’m going to be stranded anywhere it might as well be paradise”

Hadyn: “I think I’ve eaten a whole plantain farm at this point”

Hailey: “what’s one more day”

Grayson: “I could’ve driven us there in 2 days and 20 hours”

Madeline: “we should have taken Grayson’s offer”

Lila: “I have no words”

Izzy: “The only thing that can save me now is honey mustard”

McKayla: “It’s day 9 and I still haven’t had rice and beans”

Amelia: “I don’t want to be here”

Ansley: “Everything is expensive”

Ana: “This stinks”

Bekah: “I want to go home”

Addison: “I missed my dads birthday for this”

Parker: “life throws you a curve ball, hit it a different way”

Luke: “you have to go through the nether to get to the end”

Leah: “if pastor Owen got his pilots license this wouldn’t be happening”

Kiley: “get us on a plane and bring us home”

Catherine: “Just get me to the US”

Gracen: “wish we could home in the US but we’re having a fun time”

Emily: “I just want a burger”

Jacob: “this hotel is dark and gloomy”



Costa Rica Team Praising God “in the storm” from our hotel Sunday morning. We are taking Pastor Owen’s challenge to be more like Daniel to heart by settling down in a foreign land responding to our circumstances by choosing a 3rd way (via media).


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