Let’s start this month’s update with some praise:
Remember when we asked you to pray for ‘customs’ work to be completed on our container – in a way we could all afford? Those prayers have been answered at last: we received official documents this past month totally exonerating the contents of the container. In other words, we owed no more money for bringing the container contents into the country. This is significant in that we could have been charged as much as 50% of the value of the contents. In fact, because we had paid monies ‘up front’ to help cover costs, we actually received a ‘refund’.
Five weeks from today, we will be returning to the states for the summer. Lois will be taking some additional training, we’ll be doing some personal and school shopping, we’ll be taking care of some business, and we’ll be spending time with our family and friends. We are so thankful that God has given us this opportunity.
We thank you for your many prayers for us as we endure the heat of Niamey’s May. Lois probably feels it most, as it is over 100 degrees most afternoons in the kitchen. We’re told this is called ‘crock-pot season’. Lois is most definitely thankful for her crockpot!
We know you’re continuing to pray for Boubacar. He hasn’t asked many questions lately, but we believe that God works in his heart even when we don’t see the evidence. He has told me that he would become a Christian, but the cost of family rejection is too great. I tried to explain that if the gospel is really true, then no cost is too great in exchange for eternity. It made me wonder how much we really believe that this life is only temporary. What are WE willing to give up for the sake of eternity’s values?
Last of all, we ask you to pray once again for a renter for our home in the states. Our current renter has been wonderful, but she is moving out this week. So far, we don’t have another renter. Please pray that just the right person will find our little house is just right for them.
