Our return to Sarh has been nothing but miraculous... The Lord kept coming through just when we needed it;
1. We were overweight with the home-school stuff & didn't want to pay extra since we were short of funds... so we called the airline & voila!... God gave us favor and we were allowed to be overweight & even bring an extra bag
2. Immigration chief exempted us from paying visa's for kids but didn't give us gratuit visas... a new official decided to cause problems so I asked him to call his chief who came and resolved all after a long wait... arrived at 12.30am & only got to our accommodation at 3.00am.
3. Went to sleep thinking how I needed to go charter a local flight next day for Sarh & organize to send luggage by road, BUT God had our backs ;o)), at 5.30am I got a phone call from (MAF) Mission Aviation that there was a plane chartered one way from Sarh and all we had to do was pay one-way from N'Djamena but had to be at airport in 30 minutes. So after 2.30 hrs of sleep I woke up the family that had just done 29 hrs of traveling ;o)) with difficulties of course. We got to take half of the luggage on the plane PTL!.
4. In Sarh our friend Neldjita was waiting with our car that hadn't been driven in 4 months... It got our luggage home but broke down after two days... Getting anything fixed here is hard cause half of the time you can't get the right parts & when you do they are overpriced... It is working but not quite right ;o(
5. Got home to a house with no running water and a town with no electricity. Its been over a month of no power and only sporadic running water ;o( It was an extreme change of climate we came back to... extreme humidity & heat, no electricity means no respite
7. Started Biblical studies but couldn't accept candidates with Debts from previous training... Seminar fortnight is intense and does not live room for much else.
8. Have had to walk two staff members through the loss of their parents; one a Dad & the other a Mom.
9. On a brighter note, Some Pastors brought the rest of our luggage on Public transport, A new super generator just arrived & in the meanwhile with my limited mechanical knowledge & a lot of prayer I have coxed both our little generator & car to work though not perfectly.
10. We have studied; Philemon, James, Acts, now Romans & have read through Luke, Colossians, I & II Thessalonians, II Timothy, I & II Peter, II & III John, Jude & Psalms BK I & II.
11. WE are excited about Jesus.
Recently, reading the book; "Heavenly Man" by brother Yun was a breath of Fresh Air... best Autobiography I have read in a while. His other book "Living Water" has encouraged me greatly because Biblical Truth remains true no matter where you are... works the same in China , Africa & all over the world. "Truth" that only works for a "select few" & only in a given country is suspect...
His simple but powerful messages are very similar to what we have been preaching in Africa & they are truly transformational. Its not just a lot of Doctrine & Theology but its knowing Gods Character & Nature & walking intimately with Him. Not formulas but being led by the Spirit. I will do a book review when things slow down a bit!... ;o) Thanks for sending us off with prayers.
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