Thursday, July 23, 2009

our flight path

Our tickets for Kigali are now officially booked! I'm actually really excited about flying - it will be a nice time on the plane together to sleep, read, pray, and begin to feel like this whole adventure is officially happening.

We have a pretty excellent flight path, thanks to Royal Travel and Tours who book missionary/humanitarian flights. They have been super helpful and I would highly recommend them.

We leave San Francisco the evening of the 19th of Aug and fly directly to London. We have a 7 hour layover there - not too long, not too short to feel stressed out about clearing customs/missing our flight. I don't think we have time to go see London a little, but it's okay. I love the Heathrow airport. There's lots to do. From London we got to Nairobi, Kenya, deplane, reboard, and head on to Kigali. All in all, not so bad. The total flying time is 22 hours and 10 minutes, but we arrive at in the morning of the 21st.

I'm not too concerned about sleeping on the airplane, but Levi is, so please pray that he will be able to adjust and sleep properly to help us get on Kigali time as soon as possible. I don't know if the school has activities planned for us immediately on Friday, but we're the 2nd to last to arrive, so we want to be able to hit the ground running.

Thursday, July 2, 2009

the shot list

In case you're thinking of visiting Africa, here are the shots we were told we needed for Rwanda:
-Hep A
-Hep B
-Typhoid
-Yellow Fever
-Polio booster
-Tetanus (in case you're due, which we are)
+Malaria pills
*They also recommend three shots of rabies, but apparently there's a shortage so we can't get them.

For someone who can't even look at needles without getting anxious (me), this is not a comforting list.  I did one on Monday and have at least two to go, pending the discovery of medical records.

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Africa Advice?

There are so many details we're working on right now for our move in 2 months, but I also want to take advantage of the wealth of information you have! We have lived internationally before, but not for a year and not in Africa. If you have any tips, advice, stories, anything, we want to know! Help us out by leaving a comment or send an email.

Links

Photos: Will post a site once we have photos to post

Interested in Supporting Us Financially?

**UPDATED 9/12/09**

Our school KICS exists as a Christian option for the city of Kigali. It also allows families to continue their children's education in an American-style setting. The school also seeks to serve the Rwandan national students and truly provide an international community. Although many families are Christians, we also have the opportunity to daily share Jesus with our students.

We would love your support in prayer and any financial donations you can provide. We deeply value the opportunity to go to another country as full-time workers and share the love of God with the students and families we will be ministering to. However, it has been strongly advised by the school (and assumed in the salary structure) that we supplement our salary from them with donations. We have already received a very generous gift that covers a large portion of our living expenses, but we want to take this opportunity to partner with you to serve the people of Rwanda.


We believe there is much that God is going to teach us in this process of raising financial and prayer support. We have been profoundly blessed in times where we have supported other believers financially and hope that you experience a deeper connection to us, to Rwanda, and to the Lord in this experience. Please think about joining us and let us know if you have any questions. We would also love to hear if you are planning on supporting us through prayer and/or financial means (either one time donation or monthly). Thank you!

----------
Bridgeway Christian Church has graciously agreed to provide tax-deductible receipts for your records. They will deposit the complete contribution funds in our bank account once a month. Please feel free to contribute either a one time donation or on a more frequent basis, whatever is most convenient for you. If you feel comfortable doing so, we would very much appreciate it if you let us know what your plan is, so that we can confirm that the correct amount has been deposited and to help us estimate our budget. (We don't expect any technical difficulties, but just in case something happens through the mail or the processing. If you feel like making it a secret, we love surprises too.)

So, here are the details:
1) Checks should be made out to "Bridgeway Christian Church" with "Levi and Erin Fletcher" listed in the Memo section.
2) Add in a little slip of paper that says you want the money to be deposited into our account.
3) Please put "Donation for Fletchers - Rwanda" in big letters on the back of the envelope to help it stand out from the various letters that the church receives.
4) Mail to:
Bridgeway Christian Church
3735 Placer Corporate Drive
Rocklin, CA 95765

(If you attend Bridgeway, I think you can put an envelope in the offering basket, but please make the envelope has all the information.)

Whatever we receive over $3000 ($300 x 10 months), we hope to use to directly bless someone we encounter in Kigali. We are not sure what that will look like at this time, so please pray for us to have open eyes and use wise discernment as we see needs. We so look forward to sharing this experience with you and filling you in on what God is doing on the other side of the world.


Joint Email: levianderin@gmail.com

Erin

Contact Info
Email: ErinGFletcher@gmail.com
Skype: eringrace84
Facebook? Dedicated

Levi

Contact Info
Email: mail.levifletcher@gmail.com
Skype: LandEFletcher
Facebook? Minimal