by Eugene Park

Wow. Waking up at 4:30am is not a fun thing to do. But that’s what we had to do in order to get to LA on time for our flight. But I was really encouraged by how many people came out at 5:30am to see us off. I know that I would have had a hard time getting out there that early so I understand if you didn’t make it.

So the flight down to Buenos Aires was pretty uneventful. Well, except for the fact that we had to walk about 2 miles to get to our connecting flight in Miami. And that I slept for about 15 minutes on the plane because I can’t sleep on planes. Man, can’t wait until we get to Tucuman tonight so I can sleep…oh wait…

When we arrived in BA we were picked up by our usual driver Juan Carlos and he took us over to Eduardo Buldain’s place which also doubles as the Centro de Capacitacion Pastoral (Pastoral Training Center). It’s so encouraging to see the work being done there in training up pastors to preach the word of God. It was also neat to hear Eduardo share about his vision for the CCP and the plan to plant churches all over the place. I also got a chance to see some old friends from my days at Palabra de Vida.

So we left the CCP and headed over to the national airport (Aeroparque) to get on the plane and head up to Tucuman. Unfortunately our original flight was cancelled so they started putting us on the next flight a couple of hours later. Okay, I can accept that. But then after four of us got our tickets, we found that the flight was booked and the rest of the team couldn’t get tickets. So we were basically forced to turn in the tickets we had and exchange them for a flight the next morning at 6:30am so all of us could stay together. And because it’s an early flight I made the decision to just stay overnight at the airport. The team was very supportive of this decision which I appreciated. But for some reason Elisabeth was really excited when she heard that we were staying overnight. Ha! I guess she wants the full missions experience.

So that’s where we are right now. Hopefully we don’t have any issues getting up to Tucuman tomorrow. And hope to keep you all updated on the adventures of the “Argentina 9.” Until then, see you on the flip side.