Documents and Bureaucracy
At rest, my heart rate is 50 beats a minute. Apparently, that is the heart rate of an athlete. The only problem with that is that I am NOT an athlete. At this particular stage in my life, I am watching with a wary eye a middle that has spread way more than I ever thought I’d let it. What happens to my heart beat if I actually DO get fit again?
We went down to tea with Shane and Jemi this week where the setting sun caused me to quickly pull out my phone and snap a picture of Pris. You are the beneficiaries. :)
We are doing well. This last week we’ve pulled together several (seven) documents necessary to obtain a letter of approval from the ministry of culture so that we can then apply for a visa in Krakow, Poland. There are new laws and new departments and new fees making the process more complex. Thankfully, they have approved us for one year, but we are going to try again to get them to approve us for three years. If they do and if the embassy in Poland grants the visa, then we save about $6000! So we are praying that the extra documents we have submitted will be sufficient to change their minds… or satisfy their bureaucratic “bone”. We leave Ukraine on the 3rd of August.
This week, a team from New York has been here helping work on the Lighthouse Cafe. They are a good group of guys (5) and will share with us this morning when we gather as a church. One of them plays a good game of chess, I understand, so I’ll be trying to link up with him over the 
next few days for a few games.
I’m also back into the building world and back into visits to different building supply stores. I enjoy it. Here’s a pic from a warehouse about 30 minutes away.
Elle is the only child up at 8:21 on a Sunday morning. Wow. She is sitting next to me with her new gift – a book and pen – and singing different songs interspersed with a question here or there about what I am writing. Joy.
Enjoy your week!