Work permit

I just wanted to show you all that today i officially picked up my work permit!! It was approved 9 January but when i went down to Lusaka a few days later it still wasn't signed. So we asked them to send it to Ndola which is much closer, only an hour instead of the 5 hours to Lusaka!This morning i went to Ndola and was so thankful to find it there!! I am now able to legally stay here!! Praise the Lord!!

FCV

So, just another quick update on my last post. This morning Tori came in and shared with me that one of her teachers talked with one of the men that was in the boat when it capsized and he told him that just as they were pulling the last man out of the river, a crocodile surfaced!!!!! He said that the river is full of crocodiles!! All the more reason to have the children come by road!? So thankful that God granted protection to these children all the times they crossed the river! What an awesome God we serve!!

FCV

I just thought I would share this with you all becuase I thought it was a good picture of how God is completely in control. I posted some pictures a couple weeks ago of the Kafue river. This is the same river that the children from the orphange cross everyday to attend school here in Riverside. The rains the past couple of weeks have been very heavy and have caused the river to start flooding. They normally took the pontoon boat across but since the water level was rising they could no longer use the pontoon. The children then started taking the boats you saw in my pictures. I don't know if you could see from the pictures but, the boats aren't necessarily safe. Usually there is one man rowing while the other man is bailing out the water! A week ago, the rain was so bad that it flooded one of the streets that the children use and so they were advised not to come that day for school. Then they were told that the river water had risen a lot and that the current had become very strong and since most of the children do not know how to swim it was decided to let them off of school until a safer way came available. This morning Tori was told that just yesterday as a boat was crossing the river, it capsized! Thankfully the men that were on the boat were able to swim safely to shore. However, the boat never surfaced, or if it did it was way down the river! But if that would have been the children from the orphanage it would have been a much different outcome. Most of the children do not know how to swim and with the current being so strong who knows what would have happened! So we praise God that He is in complete control. He knows exactly what He is doing and we are so thankful that He chose to keep the orphanage children safe all those times they have crossed the river. The children haven't come to school for over a week now, the rains just keep coming. Helen, the nurse out there has a truck that all the kids could pile in the back of, but the cost of gas is too much and right now the road isn't much better. Even four wheel drive vehicles are getting stuck. Please pray for this situation. We know that God knows and that he will provide a way for the children to come back to school, in His own timing!