Container problems
posted by Jesse on Sunday, May 3, 2009 at 3:09 pm
I know that it has been an incredibly long time since I have posted anything on our blog other than the monthly updates. Yes, we are still alive, and I do plan on writing more often once we have an internet connection of our own. For now, though, I want to tell about what’s going on with our container and to ask you to pray for the situation.
The container arrived in the port on April 24th, so we drove down six hours from Kara on the 28th, expecting to get the container out of port and up to Kara by around the first few days in May. Well, we’re still in Lomé! Without going into a bunch of unnecessary details, the basic problem is that something on the container’s paperwork doesn’t appear to look right to the port authorities. So, they have decided to open the container and go through it. They might get around to doing this on Monday or Tuesday, and the whole process could take several days.
There are several things to pray for in this situation:
Pray that nothing gets stolen while many of our things are laying on the ground outside of the container.
Pray that they will be content to only look through a part of the container instead of every single item in every single box, which literally could take a full week.
Pray that after looking through everything they will not assess an insanely high value to everything, which would then mean that we would be paying much higher taxes than necessary.
We are completely confident that all of this is just part of God’s plan, and that He has a very good reason for it all. That doesn’t necessarily make it easy to go through it, but it does give us the assurance that God is seeking to do something through this that we either don’t understand or that we don’t yet know. Thanks so much in advance for your prayers about this!
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