My twenty-year-old daughter has come unwired, for six whole weeks! We said good by to Jenny at SF Airport and she jets off to Quito, Ecuador with stops at LAX and Panama City on the way. She's taking part in a five week ISV (International Student Volunteers program) and then taking a week to visit Wycliffe Bible Translators working with a remote people group. She left behind her cell phone and her lap top. Yikes!

Jenny doesn't know Spanish, but with Latin and French under her belt and her keep aptitude for languages, she should learn fast. Her first week will be spent in language school and living with an Ecuadorian family.

When she was just nine, Jenny traveled to Japan without her parents, accompanied by her seven-year-old sisterm to visit dear Japanese friends. Jenny also traveled alone to France when she was 15 for a three-month stay with a family and studies public high school. She had studied French for only one and half semester at that time. That was a challenge too.

But this is scarier. She's much more on her own, especially for her added on one week to visit the Wycliffe staff.

Today she was nervous about that and whether her luggage will arrive in Quito. (She's had it delayed when she's traveled to college in New York). And from this end it certainly appears daunting that she'll have to figure out by herself how to get on the right bus and get off at the right place and deal with the three hour bus-ride.

So many unknowns, such as how difficult it will be to communicate with bus personnel people or to find the missionary folks once she gets off the bus--nervous-making for her and me. I spent a long time praying for her and yielding her up to God's care this morning and through that had faith to try to strengthen her courage today as well as sympathize.

Just before taking her to the airport, I typed and printed out for her some Bible verses that have helped me in times of combating fear. I assured her I will be asking many people to pray for her. Will you?

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[Janine]

I will pray for her also!