Visa update: Documents in the Mail

This morning I went down to a post office here in the capitol of New York state, and mailed several documents to the Consulate in Atlanta. We are not sending them exactly what they asked for. I was told by the consulate that I had to receive an invitation from the Protestant Federation. The Protestant Federation declined to issue the invitation because the church I plan to work with initially in France is not an official member of that federation.

However, the Evangelical Baptist Mission of France (basically the French arm of Baptist Mid Missions) was gracious enough to issue me an official-looking invitation to come and work in France. (It helps that my dad is the vice-president!) We then contacted the Evangelical Federation of France (my parents doing most of the footwork), and they kindly produced a letter attesting to the validity of the Evangelical Baptist Mission of France and adding their own stamp of approval to our plan to come to France.

Those are the two documents I sent off this morning. Here is our prayer request:
Please pray that these documents will be accepted without challenge and that we will be issued visas soon so that we can continue with our plans to fly to France on June 24.

It is comforting to know that our God reigns!