So we showed the Jesus film to a village about 2 hours east of the hospital. For those of you who don't know, the Jesus film is a movie made in the late 70's with the script taken from the book of Luke in the Bible. Since the 70's the film has been translated into hundreds of languages and dialects. The movie showing set up is pretty cool, since the electricity was completely unreliable we brought a small Honda generator with us which powered a DVD player and projector as well as a speaker with a built in amp with microphone. everything is super portable, the DVD player and projector are a kit that fits nicely in a suitcase.
We walked around the village with the local pastor inviting everyone to come see the film, but when 7pm came around and we were supposed to start nobody was there! We were a bit concerned but remembered that we are in Africa and everyone is always late. Tim (The Bongolo short term missions director) decided to put in some Donald Duck cartoons to get the bugs out of the system and we prayed that people would come to see the film. When we prayed we were the only people in the church, at the end of the cartoon we turned around and the place was full!!! everyone was so quiet coming in we never heard them! in total we were able to show 120 people the story of Christ in french...pretty cool.
love,
Dan and Alicia
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