Aunt Cora
The good news is that we went to yet another funeral yesterday. Read on and you’ll understand why I call it good news. We’d been expecting this one for a while. Cora Wood was “Aunt Cora” to everyone who knew her. She had a special affinity for the teens of Oak Ridge and taught a teen Sunday school for many years. Her health and strength had been fading for the past three years and she finally went to be with her Savior and Best Friend in the wee hours yesterday morning. Most people are not embalmed here, so the funeral is usually within 24 hours or so of death. Even though she was bed ridden for a long time, she never stopped telling everyone she could about her Jesus. Whether someone called her on the phone or stopped in for a personal visit, Aunt Cora wove God’s love into every conversation because it was an integral part of her life.
Quite often there have been hysterical displays at the funerals we’ve attended, even those of believers. But we were greatly impressed by the comportment of everyone yesterday. Aunt Cora had a tremendous testimony and even though there were lots of tears, this funeral was a celebration of the happy home-going of a servant of the Most High. We rejoice for Aunt Cora, but we’ll miss her too.
Now here is the bad news. We got a very discouraging email yesterday from our immigration lawyer and we would appreciate your prayers. It is ten days until the third anniversary of our re-arrival here at Radio HRGS. Our resident visa application has been an uphill battle all the way. Yesterday we learned that Immigration has “expired” our application because it has taken so long for the Baptist Ministries lawyer to produce the last document we need for the application. So, we are starting all over again. To add to the aggravation, the government has made it even more difficult to renew tourist visas. In the past, it was a “simple” matter of going downtown repeatedly until you caught the immigration officer in his office. Once that was accomplished, you got the form from him and went to the bank and got in line there. Depending on the line, anywhere from a few minutes to an hour later, you paid the fees and took the form back to the immigration office. He put a new stamp on the little green visa paper stapled in your passport and away you went for 60 days. But now, he can no longer give you the stamp. You do everything else as before and then send your passport and the form to anyone in Tegucigalpa that you trust and they take it to the immigration office there to get the stamp and send it back to you. Every 30 days! We are not looking forward to doing that. I’m sure we can trust our lawyer there, but not so sure about the process of getting the passports back and forth. It is pretty expensive to fly to Teguce, but I am considering it. So we would very much appreciate your prayers on this matter. It is both inconvenient and discouraging.
For the rest of the news around here check out the HRGS Audio Update below. We’ve been pleasantly surprised at how this little program has taken off. Everywhere we go, people tell us they listen to it or they ask for updates on things we talk about on the program. It’s wonderful how interested our listeners are in the goings on around here. They often mention that they are praying for us too. I’m convinced that we could not do this without the prayers of our supporters and listeners.
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