We would very much appreciate your prayers. We were supposed to fly out on Friday (11/17), but there was a computer glytch on our tickets that took several hours to sort out, and we missed our flight. Then, we were scheduled to fly today (11/19), but they've found another problem.

The Philippines has changed their policy on travel documents. It's always been that you should not travel on a passport that will expire within six months--unless your country has an embassy in the country you're visiting. Deborah's passport expires in January, and we had planned on renewing it there, like we have her last two passports. But now we are not allowed to travel until we have a new one.

So, we'll spend the night tonight with the Teagues in Olympia, to be within striking distance of the passport office in Seattle. Hopefully we'll get a passport tomorrow, and possibly even fly the next day. But, obviously, there are alot of things that need to come together between now and then.

Thankfully, we're in Portland with Joel and Jena and Paul, so we're being well taken care of. But Deborah has an important birth to get back for, and we're just apprehensive now of 'what will go wrong next?'