It was last week. We had arrived in Kansas City on a beautiful Saturday Evening. The whole house was aflutter with excitement that we had finally reached destination #2 on our Journey of Faith. But that excitement was soon to be mixed with a feeling of uneasiness as we discovered finding a place to park the MH was going to be more challenging than we had hoped. Of course we knew large parking lots like wal-mart and costco made great stopping places for a day or two, but they don't take kindly to RV's taking up shop for much longer than that. We discovered that IHOP has a huge Overflow parking lot that is often little used and we obtained their permission to park there for the duration of our stay in KC. Awesome.
Or so we thought.
The next day we had a visit from the guy who owns the lot, and who apparently leases it to IHOP, and he informed us that we couldn't park there and that we would be towed if we didn't move immediately. "Can he do that?" I thought to myself. I mean we had obtained permission from the lessee of the property, so I again contacted IHOP, explained the situation, and they assured me that I was perfectly safe parked where I was and that I didn't need to move. But, I had a funny feeling it wasn't going to end there. So, I temped fate and remained parked where we were in IHOP's leased lot. Three days later I'm visited once again by the owner of the lot, except this time he brought re-inforcement to help persuade me that we should move on and he reiterated his threat to have me towed if we weren't gone by nightfall. Great.
I knew we were going to have to move, but where? The batteries were getting really low in the MH and we knew we had to plug in soon, but where, and how? Our budget this month doesn't include any extra for campgrounds and no other doors had opened up for us so we moved to another large parking lot, bought some candles and lamp oil for our kerosene lamp and enjoyed a beautiful weekend Conference at IHOP. Amazing worship, teaching and times of prayer and healing, but always in the back of our minds we had the nagging problem of knowing we were quickly running out of power in our MH batteries. We continued to put it before the Lord, trusting Him and then on Saturday morning we received a call from You Know Who ...
Daniel and Marlies.
Turns out they have friends who live in KC, who just happen to be away from their home right now and that if we wanted to we could park the MH in their driveway and be plugged in all this next week. Praise God. He is so faithful to look after us. We thank the Lord that He will never let us down. Sunday morning when we woke up we discovered that we were completely out of power and that neither the water pump nor the fridge would come on. Sunday afternoon we were able to move onto this beautiful driveway and it has been such a blessing to be here the last 2 days.
Please continue to pray for us for the Lords provision and that we wouldn't buckle under the testing of our faith. Thanks for Journeying with us.
The Schafers
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