The Bad News: Our visa package didn't arrive when FedEx said it would.
The Good News: Our visa package arrived!
The Question: Will our visas pass through the bureaucracy without any hang ups? Well, you can pray with us that it does. As it has been through the entire process so far, God has met our needs and exceeded our expectations.
Please continue to pray for us as we approach the final stretch before our departure. Pray that God will continue to prepare our hearts to enter a new culture and lifestyle, final preparations will be met, prepare the people of Buff Bay for our arrival, and that we will rest on God's grace!
Grace and peace,
Jon and Kirsten
Friday, November 6, 2009
Monday, November 2, 2009
Haikus, visas, and the sovereignty of God
The cost of 25 photocopies: 75¢
The cost of extra passport pictures: $8/person
The cost of mailing documents to Jamaica for processing: $42
The cost of your prayers as we wait to hear about whether or not we will receive visas with cost exemptions: priceless!
I was thinking a haiku may be more impressive, but have you ever tried to write one about traveling visas? Yeah, neither did I. Anyway, we hope that you will keep praying with us about preparing to ship off. We sent off our visa information last week and hope that by the end of this week it will be in Kingston being processed. We also hope that all the information they need is there and/or nothing is rejected or in need of supplement. God has proven himself faithful in each step in the process by repeatedly exploding our expectations. So we trust Him even in this. It is often said that the devil is in the details, but as it was recently said at a conference on the sovereignty of God - God is, in fact, in the details. Therefore there is no need to stress about whether we will get the visas in time or not, because the reality is whatever does happen with the visas...God is certainly still sovereign and in control!
More to come.
Jon and Kirsten
The cost of extra passport pictures: $8/person
The cost of mailing documents to Jamaica for processing: $42
The cost of your prayers as we wait to hear about whether or not we will receive visas with cost exemptions: priceless!
I was thinking a haiku may be more impressive, but have you ever tried to write one about traveling visas? Yeah, neither did I. Anyway, we hope that you will keep praying with us about preparing to ship off. We sent off our visa information last week and hope that by the end of this week it will be in Kingston being processed. We also hope that all the information they need is there and/or nothing is rejected or in need of supplement. God has proven himself faithful in each step in the process by repeatedly exploding our expectations. So we trust Him even in this. It is often said that the devil is in the details, but as it was recently said at a conference on the sovereignty of God - God is, in fact, in the details. Therefore there is no need to stress about whether we will get the visas in time or not, because the reality is whatever does happen with the visas...God is certainly still sovereign and in control!
More to come.
Jon and Kirsten
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