Dear friends,
· First of all we want to thank you for all the prayers and support we received, we are blessed! As you may remember in the last newsletter we gave out to you, our heart was to make some things clearer. One of them was about our next step, us being in a process of moving to the United States as soon as we had received our visa.
Still in the process
· Well not much of that is changed because we are still waiting for our visa or to be more specific, we are still waiting on a final application paper from the Homeland Security in California before we can go to the embassy and apply for a R-1 visa. Some stuff has changed though because we have a little bit more information about the waiting time of this process. Instead of thinking that the paper would be here anytime soon, the Homeland Security in the US informed us that we need to wait at least another 4 months or more before we will have our applications answered!! This was shocking to us but in the same time it gave us more of a overview.
While waiting
· After this news everything went very fast. The first thing we both thought was: we need to find work so we can be active while waiting. You know those moments that sometimes when you look back you can see the hand of God upon your life so strong but in the moment itself you can not see it so clear? We had one of those moments because pretty soon we both applied for a part time job on the airport in Norway to work at the ground-service. Some of you may know that Kevin already has a lot of experiences in working on the airport in Sweden, so it would be easy to start working in Norway. Mariëlla on the contrary has no experience at all in this. But still, they invited us for a job interview in Norway and asked us if we could start on Monday (this was last week)! So here we are, in Norway, both with a part time job and our own place to stay (see picture), praise God!
A new perspective
· This is the first season that God brought us in that for the first months we really did not understand what was happening, a time of shaking and brokenness. From the beginning it was hard to say yes to the dealings of God, since we did not know what was going on, but after hearing Him speak to us clear about this season we, with the help of the Holy Spirit, surrendered. The Holy Spirit been speaking to us from John 15:1-2 which says: I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. He told us that the scripture says that the Father prunes the branches that are already bearing fruit (and not the ones that are not bearing fruit) so that it may bare more fruit. This shows the perfect picture of the season we are in, so we might bear more fruit because by this our Father is glorified! It might hurt a bit, it might be hard at times but we do not lose heart.2 Cor. 4:16-17 Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.
At last
· So maybe you have been wondering where we were hanging out, well in Norway, our new home for now J. We stay in a apartment close to the airport we work at and right now Mariëlla is attending a course to be able to start working and Kevin is already working on the airport. We are still settling down and discovering how everything works here in Norway. We believe God has given us a new platform for this season to minister in, to the ones He puts around us in our workplace and life’s here. We are really praising God for the things He is doing and in the midst of our jobs and life in Norway we are keeping our eyes and minds fixed on Jesus our Lord and Saviour!
May God bless you,
Kevin and Mariella Kazemi.
If you have any question or just want to respond on this update please email us at: kevinmariella@hotmail.com
