Monday, January 22, 2007

Pray for Residency Permits

Currently, we are in Dar Es Salaam trying to make progress on our Residency Permits. We just arrived yesterday and visited the office in person for the first time this morning (Monday). I think we made some progress but we will be going back again tomorrow to see what more they want or if they are going to finally issue them. It was quite frustrating today because they were asking us for things we have already provided and seemed to be looking for ways to stall the whole process even more. Prayer is pretty much all we have to depend on. Thanks for your part in that.

As far as a car is concerned, we will be looking at several on Thursday. Some of what we have heard seems too good to be true but we will see. It is another issue for continual prayer. When/If God does provide us with a car, our efficiency is going to sky-rocket. Even today as we walked all over Dar and occasionally used public transport, let’s just say we were not getting things done as fast as we could have in the States…we are getting used to that, though.

With all that said, I must also say that we both nevertheless continue to thank God for the chance to be over here and look forward to however he will guide and use us in the future. The theme that has been sticking out to me lately in my reading is the importance of faithfulness. We might not understand why God puts us where he does or why he calls us to what he does but our responsibility is faithfulness. This is our prayer and desire. Pastor Massawe has been so good to release us during this time so we can be sure to work out these things. Pray we can do it is good time as classes are officially starting for the term at Waama today.

Ben Jore and Jesse Long