I’d like you all to meet our South Africa missions team!
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Left to right: Lisa (of Living in My Integrity), Jonathan and Kelly (that’s us!), Natalie (of The Teabo Tribe), Tami, and Jodie (trip leader; Sun Breaks in the Rainy City). Not pictured: Kinsey (Photographer Extraordinaire). This photo was taken at church just this morning, right after our commissioning. I am still wearing the stripey sweater as I type this.
We’re leaving next week, on Wednesday, December 3rd, and we’ll be gone for nearly two weeks in South Africa. It seems distant (it always has), but it’s next week, and the last few days have been a small snow-flurry of packing (POP QUIZ: can you fit more t-shirts by rolling or stacking?), praying, preparing, last-minute meetings, forms, and the rest.
Please keep praying for us as we enter the last week before our trip!
I STILL STAY ROLLING!
With Thanksgiving this week, and us leaving on Tuesday, it looks like I won’t get a chance to see the two of you before you head off.
Have a fantastic time! You have my prayers for your trip. Both of you have great hearts and I know God has a plan to use you over there.
Can’t wait to see some pics!
Oh, and I say folding. Rolling t-shirts would be an inefficient use of space as the curved shape of a roll leaves unusable area between the shirts. Though this can be minimized by stacking in a honeycomb fashion.
Indeed, the area between the shirts should be considered.
But one must also consider the natural compression of fabric achieved by a tight roll. Imagine laying three shirts, one on top of the other–only gentle pressure from other packed items is applied, so the stack will be taller than it has to be. You can push the stack down with your hand and see that it has some give, as air moves out of the way. Now imagine doing the same thing to a stack of tightly rolled shirts–there is much less space wasted on air, and the stack is firmer. Is the space between the rolls larger than the space wasted on air in unrolled shirts?
Someone needs to do an experiment.
Blessings and traveling mercies on you both. What a worthy way to invest your time. Kay Lynne and I will look forward to seeing reports on your blog. On the shirt thing, if they’re cotton, fold ‘em & then vacuum seal them for minimum space usage. Tell your mom hi for us. -R
ROLLING!
THANK YOU RUTH! I say rolling. We are a house divided, but really only divided in our packing methods, which I think is understandable.