Welcome to conference room B

I wish I had a cool cross cultural meaningful story to write about. However, I've been working in the galley for the past few months and there's not much to report. Once when I was peeling carrots there was a carrot that looked like a person with arms and legs. Does that count? Maybe not. I've decided to make this a business like informational type blog entry.

Read the minutes from last time:

-The AFM is in South Africa to have it's generators replaced and some other major electrical work

-Cyle works in the galley because the hospital is not running currently

-Most of the crew has moved off ship to an abandoned college campus

-The ship has no AC because the power generators are in pieces somewhere

-The ship is an oven (think of getting into your car on a sunny summer day)

-We are scheduled to leave SA on January 16th to go to Sierra Leone for the 2011 field service

Any new business?

-The new generators are in and currently being connected and secured

-The departure date has been pushed back to January 30th because of delays in the work

-Cyle has finished work in the galley because it is time to start preparing the hospital for service mode (the hospital deck is currently covered in dirt and oil from all the work)

-Buses filled with crew members come every day to clean the ship and get it ready for sailing and service

-The medical screening process has begun in Sierra Leone, with large turnouts of people who need help

-Cyle is now playing in the worship band on the ship and enjoying having calloused fingers again

Now a word from our chief executive officer:

"Holy Father, guard them as they pursue this life that you conferred as a gift through me, so they can be one heart and mind as we are one heart and mind."

Dismissed.