Missing Equipment Worked Around

This week, I was in Japan to install a new piece of equipment on a ship. I only had two days to do it and a lot of communication problems. Day one, the ship and parts warehouse were closed. Day two, we could not find our parts shipment in the warehouse. One part was a mounting plate and the other was the equipment. I could not find a mounting plate, but I found a 'random' shipment of the piece of equipment I needed in the warehouse. I found that it was inappropriately shipped 5 months ago for a ship that didn't needed it. However, I still didn't have the mounting plate I need. When I went onto the ship to survey the mounting location, I found that I could not install the equipment horizontally with the mounting plate like normal, because of other things installed in the way. The only possible way to mount the equipment was vertically, which did not require the mounting plate. So, I was able to complete the install with a piece of equipment that was not designated for this ship, but "just so happened to be there". God provided exactly what I needed and worked around the craziness of not having access to the correct shipment of parts that were supposed to be there.

Radar Supplied!

I was supporting a ship remotely this week that had two broken radars and was stuck in the Philippines. We just needed to get one radar operational to get the ship back underway. After some troubleshooting, found out that one of the radars was going to need new mechanical components, but this would be hard to come by quickly. A couple weeks ago, I was fixing a radar in Thailand on a different ship and we had a spare radar that we gutted for electronics components. We left the mechanical pieces on-board. Well, as I was on the phone with the ship in the Philippines, the other ship from Thailand "just happened" to pull in next to it in the Philippines! I helped them connect the dots and they were able to transfer the mechanical pieces to the ship in need to repair the radar and get underway! I couldn't believe how God had that all planned out- exactly what was needed, when and where.