I'm going to Southeast Europe with a team of over 30 people! We want to get some hippie vans and drive them down toward Moldova, Turkey, and Greece to share with gypsies, women in prostitution, and the like. I'm so excited, but we still don't really have any destinations or plans yet. We just need a lot of prayer in general, for direction, open doors, etc, but also for visas because none of us have our visas yet. Germany changed their visa regulations the day our school started, so it's a new system not only for the people here who process the visas, but also for the German government, which means that everything is just going much slower than anyone anticipated.
So in the visa process, everyone has to take a trip to one of the nearby towns to get fingerprinted, and then after that it takes about 6 weeks to process the visa. As of now, about 10 people have been fingerprinted, and they only do the fingerprinting twice a week in small groups. So there is a possibility that most of us will not have our visas by the time outreach begins. In Germany, foreigners can stay in the country for 90 days before they get their visas. We are allowed to stay in Germany if we are getting our visas processed, but past that 90 day point we will not be able to leave the country until we have the visa. So we basically have two options if God doesn't give us our visas by outreach. One is to stay in Germany until we get our visas, which could take until January, and do outreach in Germany until then. The second is to leave Germany before the 90 day period is up, and then we'd have to stay out of Germany for 90 days before we could return. So we're basically just living on faith that God will give us our visas somehow, the whole base is praying for it. Any other prayers would be very much appreciated as well!
I am so excited about this next part of DTS, with roughly 5 weeks of lecture phase left things are starting to get really real. And it’s going to be really cold for outreach, something I was definitely not expecting. I won’t need the long skirts or the mosquito net which I made sure to pack, and the need for really good snow boots has grown more urgent. But God is good, he will provide everything I need. And probably more. :)
So in the visa process, everyone has to take a trip to one of the nearby towns to get fingerprinted, and then after that it takes about 6 weeks to process the visa. As of now, about 10 people have been fingerprinted, and they only do the fingerprinting twice a week in small groups. So there is a possibility that most of us will not have our visas by the time outreach begins. In Germany, foreigners can stay in the country for 90 days before they get their visas. We are allowed to stay in Germany if we are getting our visas processed, but past that 90 day point we will not be able to leave the country until we have the visa. So we basically have two options if God doesn't give us our visas by outreach. One is to stay in Germany until we get our visas, which could take until January, and do outreach in Germany until then. The second is to leave Germany before the 90 day period is up, and then we'd have to stay out of Germany for 90 days before we could return. So we're basically just living on faith that God will give us our visas somehow, the whole base is praying for it. Any other prayers would be very much appreciated as well!
I am so excited about this next part of DTS, with roughly 5 weeks of lecture phase left things are starting to get really real. And it’s going to be really cold for outreach, something I was definitely not expecting. I won’t need the long skirts or the mosquito net which I made sure to pack, and the need for really good snow boots has grown more urgent. But God is good, he will provide everything I need. And probably more. :)
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