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June 2008
Dear Friends,
“Rejoice in the Lord
alway” is a good reminder that in crisis situations there is usually an
opportunity to be found and a blessing to be had. Leah’s troubles
bringing Ethan into this world last year gave us opportunities to
witness to her nurses at the hospital, and now we’ve had the opportunity
to share the gospel with her doctors as well. Both are Indian men from
non-Christian backgrounds, but both were receptive and said they would
read the Bearing Precious Seed John and Romans that we left with them.
Please pray for the salvation of gynecologist Dr. M.D. Patel, and
pediatrician Dr. Atul Patel.
Well, as if the
alternator and battery weren’t enough, since I wrote last the starter
went out on our car. Fortunately our mechanic had a spare starter at his
shop that he put in the car while he got the parts to repair ours. So
once again the car is working, but it does again point out our need for
a new vehicle next term. This one is constantly having problems.
Fortunately we are leaving on furlough soon and praying the car will
hold out long enough so we don’t have anymore problems before we go.
We have one more issue to
ask your prayers for. We are required to have an Entry Permit approved
by immigrations in order to reside here in Kenya. My permit expired
April 22. I turned in an application for renewal the first week of March
along with two other missionaries whose permits were due to expire about
the same time. Both of their permits were renewed three weeks ago, but
ours is still pending. There is no rhyme or reason to the process. We’ve
normally been given three years at a time on the permits, but recently
two of our missionaries were only granted two years. The process used to
take about six weeks, but we’ve been waiting over two months now. The
good news is that it hasn’t been disapproved, and since the application
is in we are not illegal aliens, but if it is not approved before we
leave we’ll have to buy tourist visas when we return and start the whole
process over again. Please pray that my permit will be approved soon.
I am working on our
furlough schedule and it is starting to fill up. If you would like us to
report to your church, please contact us at
pattersonlance@yahoo.com. I would like to visit as many of you as I
can while we’re home. I’ll be checking with you when we get there.
Please let me know if you have any dates you would like us to come.
With this letter we will
sign out from Kenya. The next time you hear from us, Lord willing, we
will be in the States. Until then
Lance Patterson |
