Dear Friends, Family and Supporters,
Yesterday we were informed at the Federal Police that our visas were denied, with no other option except to leave the country in 8 days! Wow! Serious business! How do you move a family 6,000 miles in that short amount of time?! We haven't figured that out yet....but when we do, we'll let you know! So far, we've experienced the emotions of shock, unbelief, bewilderment, sadness and anger. We've put great effort in the last 5 years to obtain and maintain our Visas!
Praise God, we are now experiencing peace, excitement and humor! Peace---knowing that even though our address will temporarily change, our eternal destination has not! Excitement---knowing that He will glorify Himself through this and use it for good. Humor---because we've realized that not many people can say they've been deported! This is one story we won't ever forget!
Although we don't understand what God is doing, we have faith that counts on Him in spite of the confusion. We've got a million things to get done before we leave and just want to ask you to join with us in praising Him ahead of time for what He is doing and ask you to pray as we attempt to take care of as many details here and leave as smoothly as possible!
Please also pray for God's wisdom as we return to the states and look at other types of Visas so we can return soon!
Serving together,
Diane (for the fam)
Yesterday we were informed at the Federal Police that our visas were denied, with no other option except to leave the country in 8 days! Wow! Serious business! How do you move a family 6,000 miles in that short amount of time?! We haven't figured that out yet....but when we do, we'll let you know! So far, we've experienced the emotions of shock, unbelief, bewilderment, sadness and anger. We've put great effort in the last 5 years to obtain and maintain our Visas!
Praise God, we are now experiencing peace, excitement and humor! Peace---knowing that even though our address will temporarily change, our eternal destination has not! Excitement---knowing that He will glorify Himself through this and use it for good. Humor---because we've realized that not many people can say they've been deported! This is one story we won't ever forget!
Although we don't understand what God is doing, we have faith that counts on Him in spite of the confusion. We've got a million things to get done before we leave and just want to ask you to join with us in praising Him ahead of time for what He is doing and ask you to pray as we attempt to take care of as many details here and leave as smoothly as possible!
Please also pray for God's wisdom as we return to the states and look at other types of Visas so we can return soon!
Serving together,
Diane (for the fam)
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