The "Punch"....

Have you ever had one of those moments that you just received your pay check, your salary had come in, or had just received a nice financial blessing only to find that the very next day is when all the bills arrive, as if they knew when you get your money. Or something totally off happens and all the money you just had gotten has to be used. The next thing you know the money is gone but unfortunately the bills did not disappear with it, you find that you still owe money here and there and don’t know how you are going to pay.

We have just had a very similar thing happen to us and all I know what to do is pray…. I finished yesterday Blogging about the huge blessing we had received for HTE(Heaven Touching Earth). Some one wants to build 20 of the orphan homes. We were on cloud nine for some time, could not believe how God is bringing this thing all together. He is so good!!!

Then just as we were AH struck with that, BOOM!!! Satan came in and gave us a real hard punch to the gut.

But before I get to that let me back up and explain a little something.

We are now going into our third year of being here in Rwanda, a year and half of that until resent we have spent being illegal (with out visa’s). We were told after six months that we would not receive any more visa’s until we can show our permit proving that our Organization has been excepted and registered with the local Gov. this is a very time consuming process and could take months to achieve. In asking what we should do with our immigration status, we were told that we need to wait and get our registration first then pay what ever penalty fees are required. We were told that this is part of the process. Very recently we found out that this is not true. Through out the last two years I have met with different people and asked for help and to get my questions answered. I was told to wait, so I waited. I only wanted to do what I was told to do, what was right, and legal.
I really don’t have the time and space to go into the whole story but that is the just of it. It is a very long story!! But what you need to know is from the beginning up to now we have been doing every thing we are told.

Now for the “Punch” yesterday I went to immigration and fond there the payment required from us to finalize our visa and work permits, back dated from 2005- 2007, also attached was the penalty fees we must pay for be in the country for so long with out any visa’s.

It came to a total of almost $6000 (six thousand dollars.)

Now you know why I said, all I know what to do is pray!!!
If that is not enough, I also received an email last night reminding all parents that it is time to pay the tuition for school. We have been so blessed by having the girls (Nani & Zoey) in this school, and have never seen them happier. They are really flourishing!! I heard that it is considered to be the best school in the nation right now, focused on God and growing rapidly. None the less the girls are blessed to be there and we are blessed to have them there. The tuition is a whapping $1800 per child and that covers the year.

So adding this with our immigration we our needing to come up with about $9600…

So lets talk about living a life of Faith… You know we serve a Big God!!! We have seen Him do the most unimaginable things. One would think that after watching God do his thing over and over again that it would at some time become easier to believe in him for the next time right?? No!!! It seems that God just keeps finding bigger and bigger things for you to have to trust in him more. All the while stretching you beyond you can dream. So when does that time happen? When do you wake up and have that perfect trust?? Not worrying for tomorrow!

Please Pray with us, Satan is trying to bring discouragement…
God wants to move on this Nation in a mighty way, many can feel it. It’s going to happen!!!

These people are so loved by God!!