{"id":7736,"date":"2015-12-23T10:20:20","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T16:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/?p=7736"},"modified":"2015-12-23T10:20:20","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T16:20:20","slug":"permit-received-thanks-for-your-prayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2015\/permit-received-thanks-for-your-prayers.html","title":{"rendered":"Permit Received! (Thanks for Your Prayers)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tina.barham\">Tina posted<\/a>: <font color=\"blue\">I got the permit to leave and re-enter Mexico!!!! #merrychristmas #praisethelord<\/font><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/sam-migration.jpg\" alt=\"Migraci\u00c3\u00b3n aeropuerto\" width=\"275\" height=\"412\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7737\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/sam-migration.jpg 275w, https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/sam-migration-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><br \/>What can be more stressful than heading to the airport on the day of your flight, knowing that there may\/may not be a permit waiting for you that will allow you to leave?<\/p>\n<p>Of course, you <i>could<\/i> leave without it &#8211; and start your visa process all over, leading to months of work and thousands of dollars &#8212; yeah, let&#8217;s not do that.<\/p>\n<p>We arrived in good time and Tina entered the secret enclaves of the migration office (the attached picture is from there &#8211; doesn&#8217;t it just make you feel optimistic and cheerful?). After only two line ups she came out with her official paperwork, allowing her to travel.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to so many of you who prayed for Tina over the past few days! She&#8217;s off to the USA to enjoy Christmas, and also to go to <a href=\"https:\/\/urbana.org\/\">Urbana<\/a> to find us some more missionaries (you could pray for that too!).<\/p>\n<p>I think we had more trouble getting home than she had at the office in the airport &#8211; a big police check point is set up just a few minutes from our house. But they were nice and when they saw how legal we are, they sent us on our way. \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning Tina posted: I got the permit to leave and re-enter Mexico!!!! #merrychristmas #praisethelordWhat can be more stressful than heading to the airport on the day of your flight, knowing that there may\/may not be a permit waiting for you that will allow you to leave? 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