In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps.
Prov 16.9
These past several months have been filled with uncertainty. Is there any aspect of life that has been predictable? We thought that it should be fairly straight forward to get out our approval to return; as most people have. Nope! We thought that for certain our plane tickets would be canceled as virtually every’s have. Nope! It almost feels like playing a new board game when you don’t really know the rules and strategy. Frustrating! But as the verse above states, we serve a sovereign and loving God for which we can be thankful.
At the moment we don’t have a lot of answers so we’ll just attempt to communicate our questions so that you can know how to pray…
Praise/Prayer
- The major hang up for our travels has been our approval to return to PNG. It needs a stamp and a signature so please pray that this will happen. We won’t book new tickets until this comes in.
- Pray for us to be able to get as much money back from our tickets as possible. It makes me sick thinking about how much money is going to disappear into thin air.
- Pray for us as we move out of the house we have been staying at and move in with my parents for the short term. We are so Thankful for the farm house, that has been our home away from home, and the generosity of the Domes family. More on this below.
- Pray for us to draw close to the Lord individually and as a family. I don’t suppose we need to elaborate much on this.
Thanks so much for your prayers and friendship,
Eric and Judith, Stephen, Daniel and Timothy
Housing
So as we mentioned above, we are getting ready to leave the house we have been staying in. This is a bit unsettling during an unsettled time. Or think of it as a transition within a transition. We don’t know how long we will yet be waiting so our prayer is that we can find a place where we can function as a family. We have some options for the short term but if anyone knows of a place that is relatively close then we would love to hear from you. We are also very interested in finding a place to stay for a while up in or near Abbotsford so that we can spend a bit of time with Judith’s family and our church there. This may be more of a need if our time of waiting extends beyond the middle of November as Judith’s US visa ends in late November.
Our Phones
– Eric 971 612 1140
– Judith 503 837 9423