Thursday, August 30, 2007

Joyous Day

Today was a crazy Moldova day. We were all just ready to come home and not go out again. And then the internet man showed up, installed our modem and we have internet!

So we came home, made dinner and didn't go out again!

Now I'm not writing from in front of a friend's house, but from my couch. It is a beautiful thing and I need to go put my daughter to bed.

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Living permits

I write again from the car, outside the home of friends. We have hope that the internet will be in our home today. Hopefully it works!

This morning we went to a public clinic had our blood drawn for HIV tests & blood type and x-rays for TB. This is all for our living permits in the country.

Please keep this as a matter of important prayer. The internet is one thing and it isn't major, but Living permits are major. We need them to stay in the country. There is one man that has the power to grant them or deny them. If they are denied, we must leave the country the 1st of November. But we are believing this will not happen. We need these for our family AND for Shauna, our teacher.

Yesterday we heard that the permits of 2 young women with another mission group were denied. The man who grants them said the quota is filled. But in reality there is no quota. He makes that up. So pray that this does not happen for us.

Pray that the paperwork we brought with us is correct and needed and that they won't come up with some other paperwork that we need to bring them.

Pray that the permits are granted quickly in the next few weeks and this stress can be done.

Thanks for your continued prayer.

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

I'm sitting in a hot car outside the home of friends. Still no internet at the house so I haven't updated here yet. Usually it is a matter of send and receive when we come here. Usually I go inside and drink iced tea while I pick up, but our friends are not home!

We are blessed to be back in Moldova. Thanks for your prayer as we traveled. We made it without any problems, but it was a long day of travel. We are fully turned around with our body clocks and keeping quite busy.

We are blessed to have Shauna here, our teacher for the girls this year. They started school yesterday and she is doing so well with them. Lauren was so excited to start Kindergarten with her and Natalie 2nd grade. Elissa is just taking it as it comes. Shauna is living with us for now and she really is wonderful to have along.

A few quick prayer requests. In the next week I'll be meeting with ladies who may work with me and the House of Hope. Please pray that these meetings are God-lead. My Romanian is better than I expected already and all of these will be done in Romanian and without interpretor, so pray for that. But also pray that we'd be of one mind and if they are to work with us, they'd know that from God.

Also, please pray that our internet situation can get remedied quickly. We don't have anything at the house. We live a bit out of the city and the phone company needs only to add something to the line but they just have to get out to get it done. Two weeks ago they said that would be two weeks and it still is not here! So please pray that this moves along. It is not just a matter of e-mail and sitting outside the home of friends, but so much of the work we do now is via internet. Please pray for this.

Thanks for keeping in touch with our prayer needs via this blog. Thanks for praying.