We departed early in the morning on April 17 from Columbia, SC to make sure we wouldn’t miss any connecting flights. Our 1st leg went smooth and we arrived on time in Chicago and took the opportunity to call our son who was in ICU in SC. Our commitment to God was clear that we needed to fulfil, however we were struggling with the issue of leaving our son behind in the hospital. The sermon from the previous Sunday(Signs spotlight the savior) ministered to our hearts that God has authority over distance and time. Even though we were going to be far away from our son, God would be with him to heal him of a life threatening illness. In our conversation with him he said that he understood that on one hand we had our comitment and on the other he being ill. It reminded him that God chose to sacrifice His son for our salvation and he understood our decision to leave him.
We waited 8 hours in Chicago before departing to Stockholm which took another 8 hours. We arrived in Stockholm the next morning,April 18, losing 6 hours because of time change. We missed our final connection so we got the next plane leaving to Umea, Sweden. We were invited to a presentation the next day by Dr. Peter E Payne at Umea University, from the crediblechristianity.org. We went to bed early that night because we were very tired.