Dear Friends,
Here is our flight schedule finally confirmed! Wow! We'll get to see some of you (hopefully many of you if you happen to be around)!!
We arrive in LAX on Saturday June 16th @ 7:45 PM with flight # QF 3821 (Qantas) on code share with ATN (Air Tahiti Nui flight)
Here is our flight schedule finally confirmed! Wow! We'll get to see some of you (hopefully many of you if you happen to be around)!!
We arrive in LAX on Saturday June 16th @ 7:45 PM with flight # QF 3821 (Qantas) on code share with ATN (Air Tahiti Nui flight)
We depart from LAX on Saturday July 14th @ 1:00 PM with flight # QF 3824 (Qantas) on code share with ATN (Air Tahiti Nui flight)
Praise God, we received the printed travel tickets the day before yesterday from France!!
Also, this is just a tentative itinerary and we're still working on it but we'll give you the gist!
- We will probably spend the first week and up to 10 days of our stay or so in Southern CA [visiting our friends in Yorba Linda & Pasadena, the French Club (Sunday night if that's the best), Disney Land, Universal Studios, Aline's family in the San Diego area?...] . Earl & Jana Thurner might actually come see us and we would go with them to some of the fun places in South Cal.
- We might then take off to Flagstaff, AZ (got an invitation there from some friends + church engagement too if that works out) and it needs to be confirmed.
- From there we should drive (if the $ will be there for that) to Las Vegas, NV for some more sightseeing of the impressive City of Lights. Probably for a short stay.
- Then we move up toward the Yosemite & Sequoia Parks and see what we can glean of the imprints of God in those legendary sanctuaries of nature (anything else we can visit there?)
- The next longer stop should be in Santa Rosa (suburb of San Francisco) staying with our friends there and visiting the region (which we have never gone to). They have plenty of suggestions for us and will be staying at two possible locations there. We will also take a trip out to Redding from there for a church weekend at Bethel (the headquarters of Bill Johnson's ministry). Have you heard of him before? He is the author of "When Heaven invades Earth". Make sure you grab that book!! It's a must reading (solid food for quick growth)!!! :-))
OUR IMMEDIATE PRAYER NEEDS ARE:
- Getting organized before we go with the Bookstore, the ISOM Bible School (which will still be going on after we're gone), making plans for the next Marama Night youth outreaches (letters and planning before we go)!!
- Pray we will be able to afford the 4-week rental of a car NOW since the payment online is a lot cheaper and we can have incredible deals if we charge our credit card (but of course we need to have the credit line for that!!!)
- That we will manage to get a temporary cell phone number NOW for the USA so that we can send it to all of those who would like to reach us anytime during our American venture (another online charge on our credit card to be made possible--not the case right now!!)
- That we will be able to have some ministry cards prepared for our trip in the USA and sent to you guys so we will have them to give away.
By the way, this week end is gonna be glorious since we're going to be involved with the Global Day of Prayer which will take place in 200+ nations around the world (350 millions Christians worldwide will participate). Make sure you join whoever organizes it in your area! It will be very anointed and is preparing the Body of Christ at large to be positioned for an outpouring of God's Holy Spirit unto revival and harvest. We are having it in Tahiti at the Sheraton Hotel and we're expecting a gathering of at least 300 believers (4 to 5 fellowships are going to be involved this time). SO EXCITING!!!
We're open to any suggestions you may have. We've not been back since 1996 (last time we saw some of you was on our way back from PNG). ...
Loving Cheers & Beary Hugs,
Edualdo (& Aline) Cicero