Subjects for prayer

Hi. We have two urgent subjects for prayer.

1. We've finally found a house. We researched all over Kadiolo about purchasing or building or renting a house. We finally decided that we don't have enough funds to buy or to build a house. Funds would be very tight if that is what we did.
So we're in the process of accepting a place to rent. It has a lot of advantages, but will need some work. The landlord accepted to have a long-term lease, 6 years. (A year to cover furlough) He is asking $40 a month. We'll need to put $1500 into it to update electric and to add plumbing and ceiling fans, but that is much more acceptable than building for $10,000. The simplest building we could design would cost us that much money to build. And that design wouldn't give us enough bedrooms for visitors.
This rental place is huge, and there are rooms and rooms and rooms in it.
I think we counted 8 bedrooms. Plus living room, kitchen, etc.
Please pray that the leased can get signed and finalised, and that all will go smoothly with the work we need to have done. (some of you may recognise the pic, yes this is the house you saw before. It seems that this indeed is the best housing solution for us in Kadiolo at this time...)

2. Container will arrive in December.


Some of our friends in Ft Wayne saw firsthand the work we put into making crates for this container. Containers seem to snowball. Like a snowball building up snow, and speed as it goes downhill, so a container seems to fill up.
We have 7 other missionaries in the container with us. (Thats a good thing because more stuff means a lower price for everyone per cubic foot.)
However, it is a bit more complicated when it comes to customs time. And in Mali, customs is never easy anyway...
I met with the transitaire. He is the guy who will represent us to the duane (customs), and will find a truck to bring the shipment down to Kadiolo.
Pray that all goes well with him. He seems very organised, and came reccomended from another missionary who had a good experience with him.
Pray that all goes well with the customs fees we'll be asked to pay.
Pray again for the safe delivery of those items down to Kadiolo. Amongst tools, personal things for our family, shoe sizes for 5 years for kids... are some important ministry things. A new antennae cable. The old one was taken down by a tornado about 1.5 years ago. There is one now, but only goes halfway up the tower, the new one will double the radio stations' signal radius!
Also tech materials for the radio station and the drama team. A cd writer that will enable the drama team to copy their old masters of bible programs on cassette, and make durable cd masters of them!
We are so excited about these projects, please pray that the difficult part with the authorities goes well.