Our cafe is up and running. This IS an answer to prayer! My excitement, however, is stifled, because I don't WANT it to just be a cafe. I want it to be a MINISTRY to travellers! I want to meet, share with, and influence the lives of foreigners passing through! Please pray that our team will come together with a vision that we are committed to ~ presenting travellers with the opportunity to know Christ!
Tonight we have our first major logistical meeting about the cafe, with all parties now involved. Tonight we plan, the 23rd we start training, and the 30th we open (that's the plan!) Please pray for grace, ideas, unity, and passion for all of us. Pray that we can sort out all the details that need sorted, and in the first two weeks of being open, really sort out any kinks that will arise!
We can do the cafe Non Profit! This is GOOD news. If we had everything we needed to open, we could open in THREE WEEKS!! Thing is, we don't :) We still need $10,000 in order to do all the work, and get everything we need. Please continue to pray for this! Well meetings with the lawyers have been had-- and the cafe doesn't look like it'll be smooth sailing. We're talking over $30,000 needed, hiring Peruvians instead of having volunteers working and lots of work visas. We know that God still has a plan -- Pray that we will see it! Pray that God will help us all to be wise in our decisions, and that we'll SEE the opportunities He gives to us! The cafe we want to start here is totally going to "pump up" our ministry. We'll be able to meet so many more people and build relationships with them, meet more local business owners, as well as have our local known - so people know where the church is. |