The Team is Home

The team landed in Knoxville yesterday at about 3:30pm. They were fighting who was going to get through the revolving door first. First site we see of Joey he is carrying a drum and has something long wrapped in newspaper sticking out of his backpack. They were greeted with open arms. I wasn't the only one missing people the past 2 weeks. They were tired and so glad to be home. All 8 of us went to the airport to get Joey!! Once we got is bag and I gave him a real Coca Cola we headed out to eat before coming back to Kingsport. Joey wanted American food - no rice or goat!!! So we went to Texas Roadhouse. After enjoying our meal we headed home - well after the detour to Dunkin' Donuts in Knoxville!!! The first thing Joey did when he got home was take a shower. Once clean he gave out gifts and was talking a mile a minute. The big drum Joey was carrying of the plane was for Melissa, the next thing was the big thing sticking out of Joey's backpack. It was a tall hand carved giraffe for me. I love giraffes. He actually brough me home 3 different carved giraffes, a bowl with giraffes, I purse with a giraffe and a beautiful wall hanging and runner for the top of the dresser. So I think we will be changing the decorations in the bedroom. He brought back African shirts for the boys, Jeremy and himself which they all wore to church this morning. He brought back Saraha dn Lydia the cutest dolls that are handmade. Marlana he brought a totbag and a carved frog. To all us girls he brought back these really neat necklaces made by the kids at the Humble School in Uganda. We watched some of the videos he made whcih were really neat. We all got a good night sleep last night. Today he still has a little jet lag but should be better in a few days. Here a couple of my favorite pictures and you can see more by clicking on the slide show on the left hand side. What I have loaded in the slide show is just a sample. Thank you all for your prayers, and please continue to pray for those in the Sudan and the other teams who will be going in the future.