Immediate Prayer Request

By Christian

In addition to the prayer requests on our prayer requests page, we have one need that is of immediate concern:

We are having difficulty purchasing airline tickets. We have two travel agents working to help us, plus other individuals and unfortunately we are having trouble securing tickets within our budget range. Either tickets are too expensive, or require too many over night stops (and still usually out of our price range).

We have a really good fair through a travel agent, but unfortunately he has gone silent and we are unable to get a hold of him again. He had tickets at $1900 each, not including insurance. Pray we are able to get a hold of him and that he still has this rate on hold for us. If not, that we will be able to secure tickets within our price range.

We have run into difficulties for a few reasons:

1. We could not even begin to look for tickets until late April/early May because we had to wait for the fundraiser before committing to the trip
2. Turns out soccer's World Cup is in South Africa June 11-July 11 (same time we are trying to get into Kenya). Normally what is happening in South Africa wouldn't be an issue, but due to lack of flights into SA, many are now booking into Kenya and surrounding countries and driving to SA for the games.
3. The number of people we are taking (7 is not a lot, but it's harder to squeeze 7 on a plane than 2-4)

Pray that the right tickets will open up and we will be able to secure the seats in time. We cannot book any other parts of our trip without an itinerary (no Visas, no health insurance, no lodging, no transportation, etc.).

Thank you all. I'll keep you posted.