Our visas were approved last Wednesday, the 23rd of February. We were shocked and blown away. The lady from the Belgium Consulate in Atlanta called me on my cell phone just as Josiah, Elijah and I were getting back from fishing. I was busy storing the boat. We have to call back and tell her when we can come to Atlanta to pick up our visas and when we expect to arrive in Brussels. After waiting for so long, it feels like a dream that it is finally happening, but we have Andrea’s voice on our answering machine from when she couldn’t reach us. She called twice at home then called Elizabeth’s cell and finally reached me. I called Elizabeth at work and asked her, “Guess who I just talked to?” I was so choked up that I couldn’t answer who!
Elizabeth, when our phone call ended, let out a screaming war-cry, then shouted “I am going to Belgium!” so loud that everyone could hear her all over the third floor of the Gideon headquarters. She happened to be training her replacement that day and had a very hard time concentrating the last 90 minutes of the day.
We had just sent an e-mail to our travel agent, Annie saying that the price she quoted us for the 20th of April sounded very good, but what would happen if we did not get the visas by then? Elizabeth e-mailed her that the visas had been approved and we could leave anytime after the 9th of March.
So now we are very busy saying good-bye and closing down everything in La Vergne. We have to cancel the phone, utilities, etc. Then we have to start setting up an account with ING bank. Also, we have to pare our life down to approximately 200 pounds each and then we fly British Airways to our new life.
If you have not contributed financially and would now like to, you can do so by sending financial gifts to:
Dan & Elizabeth Christensen
LifePoint Church
506 Legacy Dr
Smyrna, TN 37167
(Please put a note in the envelope signifying it is for Christensen - Belgium.)
You can also give online by going to http://lifepointchurch.org/give and specifying in the memo section that you are giving for “Christensens - Belgium”.
Please continue to pray. It is making a difference!
