Weekly Update

I am home... wheww! I went to Vladimir today to meet Jason there. He stayed overnight there because he taught his last class on the book of Daniel Sunday night and then I met him this morning to go to the immigration office to turn in our paperwork. I know that many of you have been in prayer for us regarding our paperwork and we appreciate it. We know that God has a perfect plan and we have been praying, fasting and begging Him to make that clear to us. Our desire is to walk in His plan for our family.

Our good friend Pasha drove us to the office and also came as an interpreter for us. We so appreciate all of his help and sacrifice of his time during this process.

We went to the office and waited for awhile because there was a line today. We went in the office and the head of the department of the immigration office is the one we had to go back to. He asked a woman if she had looked over our paperwork and she said yes everything is fine, that our paperwork was suitable. The he checked if we changed our registration to Vladimir like he had asked, and then he signed the papers that we could be granted this Residency.

It was such a miracle! We are so excited. There is one more step in the process though. The first step was the main hurdle to jump, this is usually where they deny you. We will go to a place called, "Passport Desk" on Wednesday. This is where they process the paperwork, so they will look over all of our documents and make sure that everything is legit and this office will be the one who will in the end grant us the stamp in our passport.
We also found out today that for Americans this process is 6 months not 50 days. So we are now deciding on our plans for the in between time. Please pray for us and for finances. Also please remember to pray for these people who will be processing our paperwork over the next six months, that everything will fall in line with God's will.

Today was a great victory a miracle and we praise God for what He is doing. He holds all things in His hands and He can open doors. However, today brought some sad news to us also that we want to ask you to pray for.
1.) We met with a girl who used to go to our church and she is obviously not walking with Jesus and wanted to make that clear for us. She served with us and was very active in the church, the world has sucked her in and that was very sad to see.
2.) There is another girl in our church named Anya. She is 22 years old. She has been having some strange symptoms in her body now for about 9 months. She has just declined very rapidly the last three weeks. She has had several blood tests done and was given some results today. They do not know what is wrong with her exactly, but she has something going on with her lymphnoids and now they will send her to an oncologist on Wednesday in Vladimir. Please pray for her. I will try to go with her on Wednesday.
3.) Also with this news about our dear friend Anya and with all the drama with our young people in the church it is hard to think that we will leave them again for a few months. Please pray for wisdom and peace in whatever direction God gives us. We love these people and it is hard to leave for months at a time.

Thank you for your prayers- Prayer is powerful!

The Havertape Family