Bunia street scene.Today I collected our passports from the DRC Embassy, stamped with our Congo visas!! They are highly coloured and very important looking! Our new letter of invitation with a big official looking stamp on it seems to have done the trick. Since starting this process of obtaining visas though, I have found out that people seem to just fly in and get visas at the airport on arrival in Bunia.
Last Friday evening I was in Guildford at a combined choir practice for our London Choir Festival and I had the opportunity to tell them about our trip to DRC, give out leaflets and ask for prayer. I discovered that some of the choir men were from Millmead Baptist Church, in Guildford and know our hosts in DRC, Philip & Nancy Wood. It appears that Millmead is their home church, having been sent out from there as missionaries in 1973! The Festival will actually be while we are in Congo but I need to learn the music as we will be using it in the Uxbridge choir programmes.
All the formalities are now in place, now for the packing!
Every Blessing.
Janice & John
