July 15, 2003
Dear Friends and Family:
We’ve been back in the US for a little over two weeks now, and I wanted to update you on some prayer requests and answers to prayer since our last letter. I sent a brief note to you on our safe arrival but some found it difficult to believe that it was from me, because it was so brief. Jet lag will do that to you.
Our trip from Nairobi was an anticlimax. British Air checked us in for a charter flight, flew us to Entebbe, Uganda, and then to London just as seamlessly as if they did business that way all the time. We checked our luggage in Nairobi and didn’t see it again until Chicago. Traffic in Chicago and construction rerouting through Gary, Indiana was the most hazardous part of our journey.
West Virginia Lectures
A few days after our return, I left for the University of West Virginia at Morgantown to give lectures at a tropical disease seminar held there each year. You wouldn’t think that they have a lot of tropical diseases in West Virginia, but the faculty there has established this seminar as an alternative to going to Liverpool, England for training in this narrow specialty. I drove the 7 hours each way during my “alert” time of day before the mid-day brain fade set in. I was able to visit with two missionary families on the trip as well.
Dr. Tina Slusher is on the faculty at Morgantown. She introduced me to