Thursday, November 16, 2006

Visas, Gospelink, travel, etc

I hardly knew what to title this prayer request. I listed things, instead of just calling "The Mess." Our visas were way overdue, but we haven't had any problems, and we weren't in a hurry with them. Then, Will went to the bank on Monday to withdraw the Gospelink money, and they wouldn't let him without his passport. His passport is in Moscow, getting a new visa. He had already promised some of the Gospelink men their support. Now he has to wait until he has his passport, and he's going to have to make more trips to Moscow. We had hoped to only have two: one to pick up passports, do all the
registration work, and meet with the Gospelink men; another to go back for the registered passports. Instead, Will's going to have to go pick up his passport, come home and get money, then go back and distribute money and start registering, then go back a third time to get the registered passports. We hoping that they'll call today and say our visas are ready. Then Will would be able to make the first trip tomorrow.

Are you confused yet? Here are some concise prayer requests:
1. that our visas would be ready today (or soon!).
2. that Will would have good trips back and forth.
3. that the wait wouldn't cause any problems for the Gospelink missionaries.
4. that all would go smoothly in general.

Thanks for praying!



November 21
They have “almost promised” that our visas will be ready on Thursday, so Will bought train tickets to go to Moscow then. Friday is the bi-regional missionary meeting, so he needs to have the money by then. Pray that he’ll be able to get it Friday morning and then make it to Vladimir before the meeting is over.


November 27
Thank you for praying! Thursday and Friday went smoothly. Tomorrow Will is going to Moscow to meet with the men from that region and start registering our visas, so please keep praying.