Less than 24 hours to go!

Saturday 3 March - 3:00pm. Our good friend's commissioning service who are going on the same plane as us. The wife has been finding the prospect of leaving family and friends very tough. She wakes up most morning vomiting. Please pray for them.

Sunday 4 March - 11am: Our last Sunday at our home church, Cornerstone @ North. I prayed before the service that God would help me control my emotions during the service so that we could share properly with the congregation. Praise God that he helped us. But after the service saying our goodbyes. I was an tearful wreck. We are going to miss our home church very much and the fellowship we shared over the last 3 years. Being a new church plant it was great to be able to know everyone in the congregation and thus have a deeper fellowship then perhaps at a larger church. I can't imagine what it was like for missionaries even 100 years ago who didn't have email, skype or even a telephone to communicate with back home and who went with a good chance that they may not make it back home.

Sunday 6pm: Crashed on the lounge. Our son's pretty tired too.

This time tomorrow we should be in the air on the way to Singapore. Have we finished packing our bags? No! (So what am I doing writing on our blog I hear you ask?). This morning we started packing our bags in earnest. We didn't meet our goal of having our bags packed by the end of the morning. I rang Singapore Airlines and confirmed what I read last night on their website that our son has 20kg of check in luggage and 7 kg of hand carry! Great! Also, I joined Kris Flyer the rewards program for Singapore Airlines so that I could check in my internet. Now we already have our boarding pass before getting to the airport. Technology is moving. Rang our other OMF friends going on the same flight to tell them about it so that they could choose seats near us. Excited? Yes, running on adrenaline as we've had late nights all week packing. Scared. Definitely. A bunch of letters just came in the mail. More change of address letters to write. Need to ring the electoral office to see if we need to vote in the upcoming elections. Better get back to packing ....

• Please pray that we don't forget anything important (like my passport) and that things will go smoothly tomorrow.
• Please pray that the children will travel well tomorrow.
• Please pray that I will be able to hold it together at the airport with more emotional goodbyes.