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doulos
Joined: Feb 25, 2006
Posts: 159
Location: Springfield, MA
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Sat Jun 06, 2009 6:30 pm |
 
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Greetings from the America!
This Peterson update has been a long time in the making and there are several reasons for this silence. In April just after Easter, my computers graphic’s card died, and then our backup computer’s motherboard died, too. Then I did some traveling to Accra for Julia’s immigration paperwork.
Easter was just a wonderful day, and the Lord poured out His blessing on the Tuobodom church. We were planning for 500 adults and 1000 children for Easter Sunday. The Lord blessed us with 325 adults and 800 children. The Lord used the message to touch the hearts of 17 unsaved people who received Christ after the service. Many have been coming faithfully to the church since then. One of them is the brother of Ben Opoku from the Techiman church. We have been rejoicing over his salvation and his faithful attendance to church. We fed everyone that came Easter Sunday. The woman of the church worked together as a team to cook the food for this event.
We are finally in the Unites States after six months of struggles getting paperwork for Julia to travel to the USA. We had hoped to be back in the states on April 15,th but that was the day that Julia’s Ghanaian passport was issued in Accra. We struggled with getting the passport issued because the Ghana Immigrations would ask for a piece of paperwork one day, and then they would ask for another piece on another. After they received everything they asked for, we still didn’t receive the passport until the 17th. Then we tried to file for a non-immigrant visa for Julia at the American Embassy. Getting an appointment is extremely difficult. I finally had to get tough and demand a meeting with the head of the Consultate. We were finally able to meet with him, and he assembled some of his best people to help us with paperwork. We had a meeting on Friday, May 15, with Department of Homeland Security and Immigration people. Here is where God started to open doors for us. We returned to the Embassy on Monday, May 17, and filed the I-130 paperwork with the Department of Homeland Security. We were told it could take up to 30 days for approval. We left the Embassy and headed to get Julia’s physical done by one of the four approved physicians. While waiting for the doctor to examine her, I received a phone call from the Department of Homeland Security. She said that our I-130 had been approved - an hour and half after filing the application. Praise the Lord! We then went back to the Embassy, and I talked to Nicole in the Immigration section. She had told us earlier to contact her when the I-130 was approved, and she would get us an appointment. When I told her that the I-130 was approved, she said she would call us with an appointment. While at lunch, Nicole called us to say we had an appointment on Wednesday morning at 8am. This all happened on Monday, May 17th. On Wednesday, May 19th, we brought Dona and Rebecca to airport, and Julia and I went to Embassy. In about hour we had an immigrant visa for Julia! Julia and I left Ghana on Delta jet on Friday morning and arrived at JFK at 5pm. So Julia now is a legal alien in America. We will be filing for an American passport for her later this year.
We want you all to know that our home church has worked very hard to make our arrival easy. Dona and Rebecca arrived in Easthampton to our new apartment with it fully stocked with furniture and food. We want to thank Calvary for it’s out pouring of love for us. We are completely overwhelmed. They have also helped us in locating a vehicle to use on furlough. Here is our address for those who would like to write to us; Pastor & Mrs. James Peterson , 30B Davis Street, Easthampton, MA 01027-1623. If you need to call, our cell phone numbers are: Pastor Jim’s 413-626-9288 and Dona’s 413-230-8854.
We have some good and bad news to report to you. Dona’s father, Allen Sylvester, passed away on Saturday, May 30th at 5am. We had a private family funeral on Wednesday, June 3rd. At the same time, Dona’s sister Brenda’s father in law was in very grave condition in a Burlington hospital. We were called last night that he also has passed away. So we will be traveling to Vermont next week for his funeral. On the positive side, I was able to be home for my niece Megan Marshall’s wedding on the May 30th in Taunton, Ma.
God has been very good to us during these times of increased stress. Thank you for your prayers and words of encouragement.
Prayer Requests:We are planning on heading back to Ghana next July 2010 and we are setting appointments for our stay here. We need to raise an additional $1000 a month in support. We know that our God is able to meet this need but we are requesting your prayers that we will be able to raise this amount.
Please pray for Julia as she is adjusting to life in the States, and then as we wait for her Social Security number and green card to arrive.
We ask you to pray for Brenda’s husband’s family in this time of loss of Rodney’s father.
Rachel’s wedding on August 15th, 2009.
In His Service,
Jim, Dona, Rebecca, and Julia |
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