[Guyana-Mission-Report] A Fire and a Miracle or Two

Hi everybody, James flew the airplane out to the international airport tonight and Jenna is in bed. Since I have a little free time, I thought I would take this opportunity to write about the latest miracle we've experienced today. I've been trying for sometime to get a permanent nursing license here in Guyana. Things have been moving very very very slowly. Lately, we had some original documents hand carried to Guyana. Our GAMAS representative here who deals with these issues took my documents down to the Nursing Council at Ministry of Health, July 16, to present them. The person who was dealing with the matter tried very hard to get our representative to give her the original documents. Our representative refused to let her have the documents and insisted that she have her secretary make copies, since we had had them sent all the way from the United States. The rest of the story is that the next morning at 3 AM the entire Ministry of Health Building burned. That department keeps paper records, so everything went up in smoke. We have really been blessed because it would have been a potentially expensive, time consuming, headache to replace all of those documents. However, we were not only blessed once on July 16, but twice. When our representative visited the Nursing Council Office he was given a receipt by the department for the application fees paid, which states that I am an "Approved, trained RN". For whatever reason, they hand wrote that in even though there wasn't a blank for it on the form. I've been informed that although my application has been destroyed, this receipt document will pass as a Guyana nursing license until the paperwork can be resolved and I am issued a formal license. I actually applied the first time for this license before I came to Guyana 3 1/2 years ago and was told one year later that more documents were needed. So, you can see why we are so happy. God is ultimately in control. He has worked so many miracles for us thus far. I'm sure the next miracle is just around the corner. Thank you for your prayers, Joy James & Joy Ash 121 Durban Backlands Georgetown, Guyana 011-592-227-2184 http://www.guyanaaviationevangelism.org/ James & Joy Ash Gospel Ministries International Project Name: Guyana Aviation Evangelism 874 South McDonald SW McDonald, TN 37353 1 (423) 473-1841 or 1 (423) 473-1842