Scott Burpee

Note from Scott Burpee Hi all! Today we went to the same church that had started in our home here when we lived in Juba in 1980. Adam who was one of the translators was 14 at the time, recognized us and it was a wonderful time. The church built a structure some years back but it was destroyed during the war so they now erect some steel poles every Sunday and hang cloth between them to make a tent for several hundred people. We also ate at an Ethiopian restaurant tonight - yuck! Tomorrow, we board a World Food Program flight to a place called Aweil, where we will be picked up and driven another 3 hours to reach our final destination: Nyinbuli. One interesting note, when Chris Hamilton flew in this afternoon, an International Red Cross plane crashed on the runway just before her plane was to land. She was on a large jet and the tower closed the runway to any flights after the accident; however, the Kenyan Airways pilot decided the fire was out and most of the emergency trucks were in the grass with the wreck so he landed the airplane anyway. Welcome to South Sudan!