Shipment is off, more or less

The thunderstorm waited for us to finish.  The shipment is on its way to the warehouse awaiting us to release it for shipment to Mozambique.  Timing is very important.

The moving company showed up and inspected our shipment; made us remove a clump of dried Eculyptus leaves (dried plants) but other than that, we passed inspection.  The photos show the general progression.  The crew was wonderful and they knew their business.  The big cardboard container will be banded and wrapped at the warehouse and placed in storage until we release it.  We want it to arrive after we have arrived and after we have our resident visas in hand.

I have visions of it going into the big warehouse from the Indiana Jones movie, where it is parked next to the crate containing the Ark of the Covenant, lost forever to be revealed at a later time.  (If you don't know the movie, then ignore this paragraph!).

One highlight of the day was meeting a nice young lady at the storage unit named Serenity, who is on her way to Medical School in Oklahoma.  It was easy to see God's hand on this precious young lady, who has a sense of God's call on her life to serve in a developing country, perhaps in Africa, after she completes her training.  Maybe God will call her to Mozambique to work with our friends the Meyers in Beira, Mozambique, training doctors for Mozambique.  It is exciting to see young people like her with a strong sense of God's call on their lives and strongly resisting the lures of our culture.  

We have a friend in Idaho who sends us daily thoughts relative to what scripture says and what God's perspective might be...we love to get them and this morning's musing talked about how Satan sets traps for us, luring us with little pieces of bait he puts out and we nibble and WHAM, the trap springs....Why do we take the bait?  Our culture is just chock-full of those little traps.

Was it a random meeting - her storage unit was in the same area as our daughter's - what are the chances?  Coincidence or godincidence; time will tell!  As our dear momma Meyers says, in the mission business, you are always on duty!

Our airline tickets back are on hold and we're negotiating the final arrangements; expecting to leave the States around August 6 it would appear.  Should know in the next day or two.

Blessings,

Dave and Ann

“I know that you can do all things; no purpose of yours can be thwarted."  Job 42:2