Bandon, Ireland

Good morning from Ireland.
The owner of the B & B here in Bandon has kindly allowed me to use his computer this morning, so I can add a little something to the blog.
It has been an interesting trip to get from Lviv Ukraine to Bandon Ireland.
The drive to Warsaw from Lviv was uneventful but a real eye opener into the trouble it is to get out of Ukraine into Poland. The one kilometer border area took us two hours to get through. It is a maze a fencing with guards everywhere and transports backed up for miles. Over and over again they ask for your passorts, check them out, check your car etc and that is just to get out of Ukraine. Then you enter the other area which allows you in to Poland and it is the same thing over again. I am not sure how much you could do from one check point to the next that they have to look through your car again and again. However we went through with very little looking over because our driver told the guards that she had "Canadian people who were going to Warsaw to catch a plane" At one point the guard allowed us to get in front of the very long queue of cars simply because we were going to the airport. I doubt that our driver mentioned that we were only flying out the next day!!
Our flight out of Warsaw to Paris was an hour late due to computer difficulties in Brussels. That made us late for our connecting flight out of Paris. The Charles De Gaule airport is so big, it is actually difficult to describe. Suffice it to say that there are six terminals and you cannot go from one to the other by foot. They have shuttle buses going every few minutes from one terminal to the next. Air France provided us with 4 star accomodations for the evening and the next morning we flew into Shannon Ireland. Wendell Webb was there to get us and then we came to Bandon for the conference.
Flo and I are looking forward to the conference and also looking forward to speaking about the work in Ukraine. People are very interested in what is happening in that country. Wendell will make a short presentation about the work in the Lviv area.
Please remember us in prayer as we look to the upcoming days and as we anticipate our return to Lviv to get to work. There is much to be done there. May God bless you all.