Prayer Request

Recently, our clinic had a substantial amount of supplies and equipment donated from a hospital that was closing in the U.S. During a trip home, Scott (our partner here) arranged for some of those supplies to be shipped "door-to-door" from the States to the Philippines. (This was the same method we used to get our personal belongings here. This method is supposed to have customs and fees arranged prior to arrival.) The first 3 boxes of supplies were held up at the shipping company here in the Philippines. This company stated that our supplies were subject to customs charges, despite the fact that we were a Filipino non-profit organization. They have demanded thousands of U.S. dollars to retrieve our boxes. However, they will not give us the contact information to the Philippines customs in order to verify the charges. In the meantime, we have many more boxes that were shipped just prior to this problem, headed this way. Please pray that this needed equipment and supplies will be released without incurring a "fee" and that the future boxes will not be held up.