details...

I'm slowly getting these trip details figured out. I like logistics and details, but I can deal with the unknown, too. Which is good, since I just found out that I have a place to stay in Thessaloniki yesterday. :)

So you can be praying, here's the bones of my schedule:

Sunday am (16th) - depart LA
Monday afternoon - arrive in Athens, get settled, dinner, and pm outreach with the Athens Nea Zoi (New Life/Lost Coin) group. Staying in a hotel here.
Tuesday afternoon - tour of Omonia neighorhoods (the outreach area and "seedy" part of town), dinner with a missionary couple (?)
Wed - am outreach, lunch with Nea Zoi team, travel to Bible school
Thursday - am depart for Thessaloniki (6 hr train ride), pm - outreach with Thessaloniki Door to Life team. Staying with a Greek girl named Kiki in Thessaloniki. :) Meet up with Sandie from here (Orange County) at some point.
Friday/Saturday - Hillsong Women's Conference. Here I'll be meeting a lot of the people involved in various trafficking/outreach ministries in this city, including the people sandie is working with to open the Justice Center and shelter. There is a two year grant from Hillsong for this ministry, so this will be a time to lay a lot of the groundwork for that.
Sunday - ?? (Thessaloniki)
Monday am (24th) - depart for LA

I'm excited, freaked out, curious, etc. etc. Trusting the details of all this will work out, because I'm not that concerned with them, being more focused on long term opportunities for ministry. I've only partially recovered from last night's meltdown, and I anticipate more to come next week... :-/ How could they not in this environment that I am walking into.

Tomorrow packing, Sunday I'm outta here...