It started with his flight out of Germany being late.  Real late.  Then it moved on to his connecting flight in Paris that would bring him on down to Cameroon being delayed by a number of hours.  And the frosting on the cake was discovering upon arrival that his suitcase did not make it here!  

He drug his exhausted body into Shiloh at 2 a.m. Tuesday, with just his computer and a carry-on bag.  After too little sleep he took a shower, put back on his rumpled travel cloths and came on downstairs for breakfast.  The seven pastors from Chad and Central Africa Republic who had been at Shiloh since Sunday evening were delighted to see him, rumpled cloths and all.  And nobody minded how he looked when they launched into their bi-annual conference.  But he was feeling the lack of clean cloths and hoping against hope that the lost would be found when the Tuesday night flight arrived. However that was not to be.   

The unofficial word is that if the airlines misplace your luggage when you come to Africa, you are entitled to purchase the cloths and incidentals that you need to tide you over, and they will reimburse you up to a certain limit.  True or apocryphal, he was obliged to go shopping and buy the essentials.  Sadly, his luggage still has not arrived in country.  He's returning to Germany in five days.  Will his luggage show up before he leaves?  It's any man's guess.  

We've lived out here in Darkest Africa for going on 27 years.  This is not a new story.  We never take anything for granted.  Except for the True and Living God.  He's 100% reliable 100% of the time, no matter what.