24 hours

Like guessing games? Okay, here's one for you.
For what purpose did we gather the following documents?

• letter from our church
• another letter from our church
• yet another letter from our church
• letter from the church in Scotland
• copy of Rob's seminary diploma
• kids' original birth certificates
• copy of our marriage license
• letter from Rob's work
• letter from our Presbytery
• letter from a friend we met in Scotland
• letter from another friend we met in Scotland
• letter from yet another friend we met in Scotland
• separate forms for each member of our family
• other docs with important info
• our passports

Any ideas?

If you guessed: visa application - you're right.

Beth, a good friend in Airdrie, was absolutely right when she advised us to work hard compiling a comprehensive array of support documents to send with our visa application. I mailed all our paperwork via FedEx yesterday and the Lord certainly did bless. Just over 24 hours later (26 to be precise), we received an email from the UK consulate in Chicago saying ...

"Your applications have been approved and the visas have been issued."

Spontaneous celebration broke out at our house. We never dreamed our visas would be approved so quickly.

All praise be to God for another confirmation that He is indeed leading us in this direction. I'm overwhelmed.