You know I've just realized that potentially all my blogs could be entitled "Answers to Prayer". God is so ready to direct our steps if we'll only stop to listen. Our prayers (most of them anyway)are really His prayers prayed through us, to Him, then fulfilled in His Almighty Power and Gracious ways. It's just awesome to be used of the Lord to perform His will on earth. May His guidance continually mark our ways and our lives.
So, as I mentioned in the previous entry I gave Oruc our plans and was tentatively wondering if this was really going to work out. As the day approached for us to fly to Istanbul, I shot him an email asking him about his progress. He said that he was ready to meet with us, but when the day arrived our cell phones wouldn't work.
With a little help from our hotel in Istanbul, we finally got through to Oruc to meet with him at the Dolmabahce Palace that afternoon. Istanbul is such a neat place to do business.
The reason this meeting had such significance for me has to do with the enormity of the project, the funds that we'll need to accomplish our goals, and the fact that I work on the other side of the world, far, far away from HQ in Colorado.
I have been working with WO for just over 16 months now, and "I" have come up with a project that will basically dwarf all other WO projects in projected costs, fulfilling a function that is relatively new in the way WO has traditional functioned, and in a region that they have never worked before.
As you can probably imagine it was quite important for us to make sure that we were all on the same page. And the only way to really do that would be for Paul, Mike, Scott, and Rod to either be in Iraq, or at the very least to meet with the architect that is planning the project. Turns out our day couldn't have been planned any better.
Meeting up with Oruc at the Dolmabahce Palace, he invited us to the hotel terrace of his business partner and engineer. Now, we're talking. Perched above the Bosphorus with a terrace cafe all to ourselves we asked Orcu to show us his plans...
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