Sunday

This week we went to Ava’adi about 10 miles down the road and then about 10 miles off road.  Evangelist Samson and Hannatu are stationed there. They  participate in the continuing education course that Gremar and I are holding at Acre (the Bible School). We went there to help them raise money for the roof of the church building the first such building at this location. The “Launching” as it is called, was held under an humongous tree that gave us all the shade we needed. When I went back to the car for a bottle of water I saw that the spare I had put on a few days ago was very low. I did have a spare so that was no problem except that the next day while at the market the back tire went flat and I had to do it all over again, you saw the  video. Anyway it was a good day at Ava’adi except that we had to leave early since we wanted to go to Rigau to buy diesel fuel so that the students could have lights that night. The problem stared with the generator knocking after it ran for about an hour on Friday night, that was the same night we were going to run it until 2:30 AM because the students wanted to have a into the night prayer meeting. We prayed by the full moon and flash light. I could not determine problem it did not seem to be coming from the engine. We  ran it again the next night in order to determine the problem, this time it was obviously coming from the engine and it seemed to be pre-ignition. We took a good look at the fuel and it appeared to have been mixed with petrol or something. Clean fuel solved problem, praise the Lord! I was not looking forward to tearing the generator apart. No more black market fuel even if it saves us a two hour drive.

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This little guy was doing his own thing.

Drummers at Ava’adi.

Dancers and drummers at the Ava’adi Launching.