Daniel Village is located only a few kilometers off the main road from Senga Bay to Salima but it seems like the middle of nowhere. We approached in the dark along a narrow, rutted, dirt road and pulled into an empty soccer field. When we stepped out of the vehicle, we were greeted by what appeared to be zillion stars, including the Milky Way which stretched from one end of the sky to the other.
None of us had ever experienced anything like it. Even the stars at Lake City, Colorado at 4 am on the men's hiking trip two years ago could not compare. It was simply stunning.
But the best was yet to come.
We quickly unloaded the gear and began setting up our make-shift theater. We drapped a sheet over the crossbar of the soccer goal and weighted it down with rocked secured with duct tape. We hooked up the generator, strung some lights, set up the projector and in a matter of minutes were ready for another showing of the Jesus film.
The worship team from Peter's church arrived and set up the keyboard and soon the prehistoric speakers were blasting out some scratch but beautiful worship tunes. The crowd gathered quickly and everyone was dancing and singing.
When it was time for the movie, we realized the audio was insufficient for the crowd size. But we didn't have any audio cables. One of the worship team members quickly took the speaker wires and stripped them bare and attempted to insert them in the projector. Nothing. Then he disappeared and returned five minutes later with some RGB plugs and tried those. Nothing. He left a third time (we are not sure where because there is no Radio Shack in Daniel Village) and returned with a headphone jack. He re-wired the jack and inserted it in the projector. Within seconds, Jesus was speaking Chichewa and the crowd erupted into thunderous applause!
It was beautiful!
We will never forget that evening. It was real missionary stuff. We were honored and humbled to be a part of it.
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