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Mothers Day update

This is just to let you know that we are alive and well.

Happy Mothers Day to all you mothers out there.

We will get started looking for housing tomorrow. The real estate agent we are working with is off today, visiting his mother-in-law for Mothers Day. He will be back tomorrow, and then we can sign papers for the first property (raw land) that we are purchasing. John will wire the cash to the escrow account tomorrow morning. Hopefully, it will reach the account the same day, although the SWIFT payment system can be pretty slow. I am also concerned that it is owned and controlled by the very people that have tried to steal the funds that God has provided us. The SWIFT system is the final possible obstacle to be overcome. Please pray that the wired funds will reach our destination.

This all should have happened last week, but there was a national holiday in South Africa on Wednesday. Then there was a "planned" power outage on Thursday, and when they turned the power back on, the power surge blew out the transformers, so Friday was also a day without power. Then came the weekend, when the banks were closed. So everything got postponed until the following Monday.

Fortunately, we know that God is ultimately in control. He uses opposition to delay things to the appointed time on His calendar. So last Wednesday He gave us warning of a spiritual attack, so we knew the spiritual source of this delay. Not many attacks come unexpectedly. We have an advantage in being led by the Spirit, and the little things that slow us down are just minor annoyances.

John was able to get the bank to send us a Proof of Funds statement so that we can look at properties that require such a letter. We forwarded this to the real estate agent, so that he could plan to show us around Monday through Wednesday. We are buying the property for cash so we need not depend on a bank loan. We will put all properties in a trust and are already working to obtain a land patent.

We hope to also look for an actual house so that we can move here and oversee building projects that will take a year to build.

Once we actually close on the properties, I will let you know precisely where we are setting up our international headquarters. I'll just say that it is NOT in Minnesota. The weather here is warmer.

I don't know if I will find time to write another update this next week, but this is enough to let you know that all is well. We appreciate your prayer support, which helps us overcome the spiritual opposition and makes it easier for us to know the will of God each day.

Thank-you very much. Blessings on you all.