Hello friends. Thanks for checking in on us. I’m sorry this is the first chance there has been to post updates.

Friday was a snowy day in MN. Not the way that we expected to start our spring break trip. We loaded the buses late and have been trying to make up time ever since. You can see that it didn’t bother Amanda and Moses. They were just glad to be getting on the way. Our bus driver, Pete, got us safely through the snow and the slush. We’ve had dry roads since passing Albert Lea.

One major glitch so far (or I should say the only major glitch ;) has been that the video monitors on our bus were not working. A big piece of the Sankofa experience is watching films and documentaries chronicling the Civil Rights movement. Films have been strategically chosen for each segment of the trip and we hadn’t been able to watch any of them until late today (Sat.) We’re so thankful the technician the bus company found here in Memphis was able to get it fixed this Easter weekend.

Saturday we left St. Louis in the dark. We loaded the bus at 5:30 a.m.! Pete has been a trooper. After a long drive yesterday, we have had many more hours on the road today. It’s been amazing to see the flooded fields and ditches along the way. Most things are green and it’s warming up. There were even flowering trees outside of the museum.

We made it to Memphis for our 10 a.m. tour at the National Civil Right Museum/ Lorraine Motel. It is the place where Martin Luther King Jr. was killed and we got to go through the building across the street where the fatal shot was fired from. The information in the museum sparked great (but difficult) conversations on the bus. It started small with just a few people but by the time we reached Birmingham tonight, the whole bus was involved (all 27 of us.)

We watched a sad film at the hotel tonight in preparation for our visit to 16^th Street Baptist Church tomorrow. It’s late, so I’ll tell you more about it from Atlanta tomorrow night and I’ll try to get you a few more pictures.

Please pray for the people that are sick (including myself, Angela – and Korissa getting over the flu.) Also, please pray for the hearts of the people that are in the midst of this intense experience. We are all feeling so much in these busy days.

Thanks for your comments. We’ll be sure to pass them on when we can.