cook update

Dear friends and family:

I see that many of you have written. Thanks for your prayers and
support. We arrived safely to Dakar finally last night after 2 very
long days. I knew that we were in trouble from the get-go, but God has
his plan and reasons for all this too! After waiting 8 hours in
Columbus for our flight, we went to Atlanta. Because of this delay we
missed our flight to Dakar. We ended up taking a flight to Paris from
Atlanta with Delta. We had only 1 hour to get our ticket, get to the
International terminal and then board. We then spent several hours in
Paris waiting for the flight to Dakar. Upon arrival we learned that
none of our luggage had come with us. Thankfully it has just arrived,
delivered too, from the Dakar airport. Hallelujah, it's all over, for
this leg at least.

The kids had a good nights sleep and are about to finish their 1st day
of school. I've been in meetings all day or I'd of written you all
sooner. I have several errands to run tomorrow getting piano teachers
lined up for the kids, medicines lined up (ordered), meet with a few
of the teachers, etc. So, keep praying that I'll find nice taxi
drivers and have success in all these things.

Thank you again for all you prayers! Love, Cindy