missionary-flights

In the wake of all of the natural disasters of the past few weeks and
months, my church
has decided to set up some missionary flights
for the college aged kids to go and help out where we can.  I
have been put in charge of getting all of the airfares

set up for the various trip.  I think I have been really
blessed to find all of the great missionary travel
web sites and organizations.  These people have been so nice
to me.  They understood right from the beginning what we are
trying to do and they have tried their best to get our mission travel
plans in order.  Since we are all trying to go in the same
general period of time this summer they have been hooking us up with
very cheap church
airfares and for those of us who can't help out because of
physical problems they have offered us lots of religious tours

packages in the holy lands and various religiously significant spots
across the globe.  I am so glad that there has been such a big
push within our church to go out and help these people because it has
been an almost non stop stream of bad news from the rest of the
world.  There have been some more recent disasters here within
our own country and those areas have been swarmed by our brothers who
are also lending their hands to those in need.  I am going to
help out with a cyclone disaster from a few weeks ago and I want to try
to help people with setting up a community farming effort.  I
feel that when situations like this happen the best thing for everyone
is to start where they need it most, at a food source.  With
the experience I have gained from the horticulture program here, I feel
that I can quite effectively lead such an effort in whatever setting we
come in to.  Whatever happens though I know that all of us are
going to have an amazing time and we are all going to help a lot of
people pull their lives back together.  I think that three
months helping out will be enough of a start for me to feel happy with
our efforts.