Answered Prayers

Well, it certainly has been a week of answered prayers for the Campbell Circus!  A big thank you to all of you who have been praying.  We are so thankful for the ways we have seen God's hand at work this week.  Here are a just a few...

• We were allowed to exit Nigeria with our dog.  This was a huge answer to prayer.  It's been our experience that rules are situational here and folks in uniforms sometimes like to enforce policies that don't exist.  Fortunately, Ryan had gone to the airlines office before hand to clear up any confusion about the policies concerning the dog, so when they started to create "extra" boundaries, he simply told them who to call and solved that.  
• We were allowed to exit Nigeria with ALL of our children, which was questionable at one point.  The immigration officer that we were assigned decided that since Abe was brown, we needed to prove he was our son...even though he is a US citizen, with a US passport, with our last name.  Fortunately, his supervisor was a little more educated and let us go.  I would probably have gone postal during this hurdle, except for the fact that my Bible reading that morning had included Psalm 121, which God had used to assure me that He would be watching over our "comings and goings."
• We arrived safely in Accra, Ghana on Friday night.  We cleared customs without any problems, in spite of the fact that we had a dog and 19 pieces of luggage.  They all made it and it was an easy airport exit!
• We have a house!  We don't have to find a rental, as we'd originally thought we would.  We will be moving into the mission house here AND the house is almost an identical floor plan to our previous home.  This means all of our furniture, curtains, etc. will just pop right back in place.  It has a nice large yard with 2 nice outbuildings, which we may eventually use for school and office space.  It is only about a mile from where the existing office is, so it is an ideal location for our family.