Have you ever had the experience where you are pretty certain what God has asked you to do, but then things aren’t working out in that direction until it seems way to late for anything to happen. Then suddenly things start working out that don’t seem possible and occur in very quick succession. And it becomes clear what God has wanted you to do. Well that’s happened just this past week.
For starters, we try to do a month of mission (sharing Jesus) humanitarian (free labor) work overseas, twice a year. So last year about October we made our schedule to be off the month of May to do this volunteer month. We anticipated visas would once again be authorized for US citizens to get Chadian visas by then. We come up to this past few months and realized that won’t happen. So in the past few months we offered to a few different hospitals our services. And the ones we contacted didn’t need us that month. So we guessed we would find a vacation spot and travel. Until….
Two weeks ago Audrey was at a urgent care continuing education conference. While there one of the presenters mentioned in his talk that he had done work in west Africa. So after the meeting she waited till he was available and asked him about where and when. He was a liaison for a rural mission evangelical hospital in Mamou Guinea. So they exchanged contact information. She and I had a crazy week after she returned. We got to emails last weekend and found he had written a letter that if we wanted to volunteer there to get a hold of him. So we said we were interested (and had time off in a week) and he created a zoom meeting last Sunday to meet the administrator and founders.
At the zoom meeting we met them and talked about their hospital and what we have had experiences doing. After two hours of talking, they decided it would be a good time for us to go there and thought we could do it in a week!
So last Sunday evening Audrey filled out our online visa applications and Monday she purchased airline tickets. Wednesday she realized there were documents that were supposed to go with the visa application but there wasn’t a way to send them clearly, so she hadn’t done that. So she tried to call their Washington DC embassy, without success of getting someone. That afternoon the e-visa came through for both of us anyway.
So here we are 6 days after our zoom meeting and everything has lined up and we leave for Guinea in the morning. WOW! God did it. Everything fell in line when He decided it was time for us to know and go. God is amazing! We look forward to however he will use these faulty vessels in His service. Lord help us to represent You well! Give us wisdom and may Your love flow through us to all that we meet. Amen
Please pray for us as we serve other in Jesus name.