We arrived at the children's home at about 1:30 p.m. today. Once inside, we locked ourselves in to have the necessary time to set up our projector and movie screen. Word got out quickly that we had arrived and that the kids would soon be able to see, "The Chronicles of Narnia". What started out as an easy set up, soon began to take a downward spin and we realized that our showing of the movie was facing opposition. Just as we got the movie underway, power cords began to malfunction. We would get things started again, and breakers would blow. Finally, we lost power altogether and with great frustration, had to send the kids back to their perspective homes. We found out that the day before the power had been out for two hours. Not willing to give up easily and go home, we spent close to an hour praying and trying to entertain the kids outside for we believed that the power would come back on!
Word spread quickly as power all over the compound began to come back on; and within just a few minutes some 48 kids returned to see the movie! Here they are with bags of popcorn in their laps and juice bags in their hands. The power remained on throughout the almost three hour movie. Following the movie Amy shared a little bit about C.S. Lewis and the spiritual significance of the movie. When she was done, Ken & I shared the plan of salvation using the Bible and interpretive chalk art. Katherine, of course, was our interpreter.
With heads bowed and eyes closed, my eyes filled with tears when I saw that 20 of the 48 children raised their hands to show us that they wanted to accept Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior! Thank you, to all of you, who have been following our blog and who specifically prayed for this ministry today. I believe that there were people who were standing in the gap for us!
We arrived at the children's home at about 1:30 p.m. today. Once inside, we locked ourselves in to have the necessary time to set up our projector and movie screen. Word got out quickly that we had arrived and that the kids would soon be able to see, "The Chronicles of Narnia". What started out as an easy set up, soon began to take a downward spin and we realized that our showing of the movie was facing opposition. Just as we got the movie underway, power cords began to malfunction. We would get things started again, and breakers would blow. Finally, we lost power altogether and with great frustration, had to send the kids back to their perspective homes. We found out that the day before the power had been out for two hours. Not willing to give up easily and go home, we spent close to an hour praying and trying to entertain the kids outside for we believed that the power would come back on! 
Word spread quickly as power all over the compound began to come back on; and within just a few minutes some 48 kids returned to see the movie! Here they are with bags of popcorn in their laps and juice bags in their hands. The power remained on throughout the almost three hour movie. Following the movie Amy shared a little bit about C.S. Lewis and the spiritual significance of the movie. When she was done, Ken & I shared the plan of salvation using the Bible and interpretive chalk art. Katherine, of course, was our interpreter.
With heads bowed and eyes closed, my eyes filled with tears when I saw that 20 of the 48 children raised their hands to show us that they wanted to accept Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior! Thank you, to all of you, who have been following our blog and who specifically prayed for this ministry today. I believe that there were people who were standing in the gap for us! 
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Praise the Lord!
Patty
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