Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! We are SO excited to be getting on a plane tonight and being reunited with our friends and family tomorrow!
And this week we saw once more how God really is in control of things. On Saturday, we went to the nearest Adventist church (about 500m from where we're staying!) and received an eager welcome from a guy called Virgile, one of the Sabbath School committee members. He ushered us into a room at the end of the service with a load of other visitors and asked for our prayer requests. We shared our worry about getting the repatriation money (about £300 of AFM's money) back from the Bénin Treasury. He prayed about the issue, then gave us his details and told us to phone him when we had the 'ok' from Immigration. The immigration man had been particularly grumpy on Thursday when we saw him and told us to come back on Tuesday for the 'ok' piece of paper. Late on Monday morning, Etienne suggested we go to immigration just to see how things were doing and try to encourage people to move faster... Over here, paper can sit on people's desks for days/weeks, and they can ignore it until they get a kick up the backside to deal with a particular name. After 2 hours of waiting and nudging various people, we left with the 'ok' - a day earlier than expected!
We immediately phoned Virgile, who said he would come to our hostel to meet us. He came about an hour later and prayed with us again. Then he shared with us how he is a colporteur and over the last few years he has developed a good relationship with a Muslim lady who is really interested in the books he has on health. She just happens the be the Assistant Director for Bénin's Cabinet of Finance and Economy...
http://www.finances.bj/spip.php?article434
She was the Director of Treasury before her promotion so would have received our request for the repatriation money if we were here a year earlier. She was completely lovely, connected with us immediately because she grew up in Kandi, and made several phone calls to all the people at Treasury who would be dealing with our request, telling them it was urgent and they needed to sort it out quickly. We headed straight to Treasury with Virgile, and made our official request. The next morning, Tuesday, at about 8.30am, we received a phone call to say it was all ready! That's unheard of! We dashed over there, and still had to wait a couple of hours, but left before midday with all the money in hand!
Praise God for opening these doors for us! He is awesome!
"The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you." Deuteronomy 31:8. Yes, He does!
And to celebrate, we did all our packing on Tuesday afternoon, lol...
And this week we saw once more how God really is in control of things. On Saturday, we went to the nearest Adventist church (about 500m from where we're staying!) and received an eager welcome from a guy called Virgile, one of the Sabbath School committee members. He ushered us into a room at the end of the service with a load of other visitors and asked for our prayer requests. We shared our worry about getting the repatriation money (about £300 of AFM's money) back from the Bénin Treasury. He prayed about the issue, then gave us his details and told us to phone him when we had the 'ok' from Immigration. The immigration man had been particularly grumpy on Thursday when we saw him and told us to come back on Tuesday for the 'ok' piece of paper. Late on Monday morning, Etienne suggested we go to immigration just to see how things were doing and try to encourage people to move faster... Over here, paper can sit on people's desks for days/weeks, and they can ignore it until they get a kick up the backside to deal with a particular name. After 2 hours of waiting and nudging various people, we left with the 'ok' - a day earlier than expected!
We immediately phoned Virgile, who said he would come to our hostel to meet us. He came about an hour later and prayed with us again. Then he shared with us how he is a colporteur and over the last few years he has developed a good relationship with a Muslim lady who is really interested in the books he has on health. She just happens the be the Assistant Director for Bénin's Cabinet of Finance and Economy...
http://www.finances.bj/spip.php?article434
She was the Director of Treasury before her promotion so would have received our request for the repatriation money if we were here a year earlier. She was completely lovely, connected with us immediately because she grew up in Kandi, and made several phone calls to all the people at Treasury who would be dealing with our request, telling them it was urgent and they needed to sort it out quickly. We headed straight to Treasury with Virgile, and made our official request. The next morning, Tuesday, at about 8.30am, we received a phone call to say it was all ready! That's unheard of! We dashed over there, and still had to wait a couple of hours, but left before midday with all the money in hand!
Praise God for opening these doors for us! He is awesome!
"The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you." Deuteronomy 31:8. Yes, He does!
And to celebrate, we did all our packing on Tuesday afternoon, lol...
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