Your prayers and your efforts to call other people to pray are greatly appreciated! Overall the meetings in Cotonou went very well. In a positive meeting, the licensing authorities assured us that they are still processing our requests and we need to continue to be patient. Thank God with us for the favorable meeting with the licensing authorities. Please continue to pray that God will give us wisdom (and patience for me) as we follow up with the procedures and that this process will produce a shortwave license with the needed flexibility.
In a meeting concerning our title deed, an impromptu visit was suggested to another government office. This impromptu visit led to a truly wonderful and providential meeting with the director of this office. The Lord blessed this meeting and at the end we were able to pray for the director of this office. In addition, during the meeting he actually called in the person responsible for our issues and instructed her to resolve it. Praise God with us for this meeting. Please pray that the lady charged with following up our issue would be able to do this in a timely manner.
Even our “worst” meeting (which did not turn out as we expected) ended positively much to the credit of God giving Dr. Mbennah insightful, wise and timely words. Join us in rejoicing for God’s intervention and the positive end of this meeting. Pray as more follow up will be needed in this area.
The team traveled from different places for all these meetings. Praise God that everyone was able to make connections and have safe travel. Also, thank the Lord that everyone on the team was healthy while here.
One downside of our meetings is that a number of things need follow up here in Cotonou, both immediately and in the coming months. Because of this, I have delayed my return to Parakou by a day. This has been rightfully disappointing to my wife and daughters. I would covet your prayers in this area.