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October 20, 2009
In The Beginning... May
If I had to give an official start date to the October Get In The Car VIII team, it would have to be May 21, 2009, 1:09 pm.
Because that’s the day I received the email. Here’s how it went down:
>>> "KM” 5/21/2009 1:09 PM >>>
Do you want to co-lead a trip in October with me?????
>>> “JK” 5/21/2009 1:15 PM >>>
Yes! Where to? Dates? So I can make sure I can do it. Kids or Adults? Not that it matters. It's just one of those questions I ask now. I'm getting smarter at that!
>>> "KM" 5/21/2009 1:24 PM >>>
Adults. Look at your calendar for dates the second or third week of October. It would be the Gulf. I will start the process.
>>> “JK” 5/21/2009 1:35 PM >>>
Leaving the 3rd, returning the 11th - first choice
Leaving the 10th returning the 18th - second choice
5/22: When morning comes, I stretch awake thinking, “Yeah, that must have been a dream.” Unfortunately, my email proves otherwise. “OK, now what?” I ask myself and proceed to conjure up ways I can not be a team co-leader without actually backing out.
Amongst my brilliant ideas are: I can do most of the administrative duties, and let my co-leader be the voice. I can write the devotions and my team co-leader can give them. I can put her name down first on all the paperwork. "Yeah," I think as I saunter toward the shower, "I've got this covered."
So, that’s how a mission trip begins.
Posted by jaselin at October 20, 2009 01:22 PM