Hi everyone, please pray for us as we face what personally must be my toughest time yet this week. Some of you may know that the company we work for has a serious cash-flow problem, as many new start-ups have, and stopped paying us at a week before payday in May. Since then we have been working hard trying to conclude crucial contracts that have been dragging for months, one for over a year, to try and get some much deserved funds into the company and have the two key staff members paid, but to no avail. I put out my resume in the meantime to try and see if there are any positions I could qualify for that would allow me to work 8 hours a day full-time, whilst continuing to work on the start-up after-hours.
Of course the UK remains the main centre of focus for us since our main debts and costs are over there as a family, and not here in South Africa. Sadly its the summer break for many executives and so there are very limited responses from employment agencies at the moment until end of August – urghhhh! I also went to see several key companies in South Africa of course, and sent my resume out to SA agents as well, though paying our UK debts from here may still be a major problem thanks to the exchange controls.
All our UK possessions are stil being stored in the UK at our cost and we’re already in arrears there, risking losing all of it. Our credit card payments and study loans are also all there, but without cash to travel to the UK, a place to stay and a job to go to, repaying any of those also become tough. Our hope remains for a good position in Cape Town soon or a new offer from London for something solid, but at the moment, in the very short term we face some really serious problems.
So we ask for your prayers please that the Lord will supply us all our needs this week, money for rent and possibly an overdraft from Barclays Bank to cover us for our UK expenses, and a positive outcome for a job as soon as possible. The Word of God says a man who does not provide for his family is worse than a dog, and I do not want to be in that position any longer. Three months now and it has cost us everything, and all we can do is to look up, to the mountain, where our Help comes from!
