“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things - air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.”
--Cesare Pavese
On March 12, 2009, I am leaving Omaha, Nebraska for El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Mexico. Three fellow Columban employees are going on the trip as well. We are participating in the Society’s Border Exposure Experience, a cross-cultural mission trip designed to introduce people to Columbans, our mission and the people we serve. The program is new in 2009, and we’re working out the logistical kinks by sending members of the home team on the first trip to the Border.
We go without expectations, trusting in God’s plan (and the itinerary provided by Columbans in the area). I’ll post an update and perhaps a photo or two after our return on 3/17.
Kate Kenny, managing editor, Columban Mission magazine
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