Update #2 - Stephanie has a passport!

Hello everyone! I hope this update finds you well! Thank you everybody for your prayers and concern for my passport. I now have one! I called my congressman, and they requested expedited service for my passport last Thursday. However, by Monday, the Passport Agency had still not even looked at my passport. So I decided it was time to head downtown. In order to get my passport downtown, I needed my birth certificate, my marriage certificate (which was already mailed off with my original application), and a plane ticket stating I was leaving the country in the next two weeks. I was able to get a certified copy of my marriage certificate, and I still live right next to the county I was born in, so it was easy to get my birth certificate as well. So I had everything I needed ahead of time, and I headed down to passport agency at 6 a.m. today. I know God is taking care of me because getting a passport today was not at all like so many horror stories I have heard. I got to the building a little before 7 a.m., and I had an appointment at 8 a.m. I was 3rd in line, and there was lots of friendly people to talk to while I waited. I got to go into the building at 7:45, and I was out by 8:20. I also did not have to pay again, since they had a record that I had already payed when I mailed in my application in May. It was a pretty good experience. Now that I know I can leave when planned, I'd like to tell you about our travel plans, and some things we can be praying for! Greg and I will leave on August 2nd from Intercontinental Airport in Houston. We will have an 8 hour flight to Amsterdam, a 3 hour layover there, and then another 8 hour flight to Entebbe, Uganda. From there we will have about a 1 - 2 hour van ride to our new home in Kampala. Please pray for safe travel, and for everything to run smoothly. Please pray for us that we would continue to seek God with all our hearts, even in all the craziness of leaving the country. Please pray also that God would begin to work in our hearts and people in Uganda that he would have us to meet, that we would be able to accomplish what God has planned for us. Also, please continue to pray for Engineering Ministries International, and Heritage International School, that God would use these organization to show His love to the people they are involved with. Greg and I will be praying for you, that God would give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation, and that he will reveal His amazing love to you! -Greg and Stephanie Osborne P.S. I've attached a couple of pictures of Greg and I with a baby lemur that we got to play with while were in New Braunfels visiting my parents. I just thought they were fun.

Please Pray for my Passport

Hello everybody, Greg and I will be leaving for Uganda on August 2nd. That is just 2 weeks away from today! Most things are ready to go, and we are getting really excited. I do have a big prayer request to ask you to pray about, though. I have not recieved my passport yet. Since today is the two weeks mark, the Passport agency is finally willing to talk to me about it. My congressman is supposed to be ordering the passport to be expedited today, and If that does not work by Monday, I will be going to downtown Houston to stand in line all day to get my passport. Orientation week for Heritage International School, (where I will be teaching) starts August 6th, so it is important that I get there on time. Thank you all for your prayers! Please let me know if there is anything at all I can pray for you about. This was just a quick update to let you know about my passport, but I will be updating again soon, before we leave. Believing in the power of prayer, Stephanie Osborne (by the way, Heritage International School does not currently have a working website, so if you google it, you will find a school in Canada, which is not where Stephanie will be teaching.)