Sara and Richard Michalski along with Merlin left from Seattle to Siberia yesterday January 10th. After talking to Karen, Merlin's wife today, we received a story of what happened as they checked in for the flight. Sara had loaded 3 of their bags at home with a weight a little over 70 pounds each, stuffed full of gifts for orphans. They put the first bag on the scales and it hit over 70 pounds, the weight limit on luggage changed to 50 pounds at the first of this year. They took that bag off and prayed and then loaded the all of the other bags on the scales at the baggage check in. All of the bags came in under 50 pounds on the scale including the first bag that hit the scales at over 70 pounds just a few moments earlier. Even Merlin's bags which he pre weighed came in with less weight than what they weighed at home. The Lady who was checking the bags looked dumbfounded and said something like that is strange. It is good to see that God's Angels are still supporting certain forms of smuggling.
The Russian Churches that are on their planned route have been praying and fasting for this trip for the last 20 days. There should be some great reports. They will not be able to send any news until they get near a computer and most of the locations do not have computers they can use.
