What Goes Up

What is this picture? Today Juka and I rode the seminary elevator for the first time. One of the prime design criterion of the seminary was that it be handicap-accessible. With a four-story structure, you need an elevator to do this. For our first year here, we called, urged, pleaded, and otherwise begged to get the elevator company to work on it and finish it. Well, finally it is done and Mike Thiessen, our seminary director, is applying for the license to operate it. It worked great - we went to the top and stopped at each floor, and lived to tell. When the permit is granted, we will be making our last payment on the elevator - one more piece of the construction completed. We are so thankful to have this completed. The last remaining thing is purchasing a small piece of adjacent land-locked land that we want to use for parking. This is presently with the government for approval and we continue to pray that this will proceed.

Also, we are delayed on the wells - one of the team drilling members passed away and they are delayed until after the funeral. It is a tragic part of life here.

Monday we leave for a car trip to the north to visit our ECC teams. Today we went around getting supplies together and have a bit more to do tomorrow. It's over 1000 miles one way so it isn't a light trip and the roads aren't the best. We picked up a few spare filters and maintenance parts for the car, just in case. I'm sure we'll have much to report when we return. It is a bit of a survey trip as well as we feel that missionary presence is needed to stand with our churches in the northern provinces. Pray for us as we go and return. It is three-days journey one-way as we don't want to travel after dark.

Dave & Ann