We Have Arrived!!!

Hello Everone. We just got a wonderful Italian dinner and everyone has headed to bed to go to sleep (hoping to overcome jet lag quickly).
The flights seem to go pretty smooth. We were held late in the SFO airport, but that meant we did not have a layover at all in the London airport. So it all went very good. One already huge answer to prayer was that a student left their passport on the plane from SFO to London. They didn't realize it until we were about to board the next flight (which you can't do if you don't have your passport). So i had to go to the desk at British airways and ask if they can go search it ASAP because our flight was boarding. As a leader of the trip, this is the kind of thing that you pray and plead does not happen. So... i had to lead the rest of the team to our boarding plane, while the student and staff stayed behind. I looked at the team and said, "you guys we have to leave, now is the time to pray" the students looked toward the "left behind" and signaled that they would be praying. It was one of the hardest things ever... truly, tears were coming to my eyes, but i knew and the others knew that it was going to work out, and it did. No problem, while the team was boarding, the staff and student run up and made the plane, no stress. God is good. It was those moments of clinging to Him and fully having faith that it would work out, because in my mind it had to. I don't think i can fully express teh AWEsome responsibility the staff and i have on this trip. So when the thought of someone not making it enters my head, it felt personally like God was saying, "ok Cori, who is really in charge of this trip." Not me.
Anyhow... Jay Henderson also joined our team in London, and that all worked out great!
We got picked up at the airport by one van, and we had a great trip to the hotel where the students got assigned rooms and then ate a big dinner and now are all in their rooms hopefully sleeping. Tomorrow they get to sleep in a little, we may explore this small town of Binasco (which is a neighboring city of Milano) and then do some training, a meeting and other things.
Thank you for your prayers i know we felt them today. The flights were all great, and probably the best flight i have gone through in a long time. This is truly a most wonderful group of students!