Well, praise the Lord. after some more phone calls and impatient waiting yesterday morning, just before 11h00 the bank finally called and said we could go get the money we needed. It took us about 2 hours since we left the house to get the money from Standard Bank, go across the street and deposit it at another bank, drive to the house of our friends who work with MAF to go and fax the deposit slip to the customs office, and drive home. We accomplished so much more than during all that waiting on Tuesday! Now, Lord willing, the tent should be with us soon, depending on how many other stops the driver has to make, I suppose.
Today I ended up staying at home all day, because my regular handyman had made me a steel door/gate to replace the dinky door between the kitchen and veranda (where the burglar got in), and even though he first was late, even had he been on time it was unrealistic of me to think I would still go work at Woodrows or go to town, it took about 5 hours for 3 guys to get everything welded and what have you. Not that I was complaining – I had lots to do in town and so, but this gave me the opportunity to update the registrations we have so far for the Conference. We are currently at about 155 participants (I’m not sure how many staff members I put on the list already), and quite a number of these have never attended before. Additionally, many men on our mailing list didn’t receive any information, in quite a few cases because a whole church’s pastors share a mailbox and then somehow the mailbox wasn’t paid for and closed down. So we seem to be headed towards a good number even taking this into account! It is gratifying to see the Lord us word of mouth, or our efforts at promoting it, or something, draw more pastors to the Conference.
Now I am still waiting for my book order to arrive (please continue to pray with us!) and many, many administrative tasks lie ahead… Earlier this week I was a bit stressed because I was trying to deal with Conference matters, but also trying to calculate some figures for Dr Woodrow so that we can order some more building material as soon as possible. Lord willing I will finish that tomorrow, and quite a few nagging tasks would have been completed this week. The Lord is good to us!
