Late last night, Abby and I discovered that we had one tiny re-recording for Nick to do. We asked him to come over at 8 am. We dragged ourselves out of bed (we were exhausted from going to bed super late and this bed is super comfy!) and went into the room where we have our little sound booth set up. For some reason everything just felt a little uneasy, which is why I'm glad that G-d is powerful enough to wake up a friend on the other side of the world to pr-y at the exact moment you need it. This would happen from time to time when I lived here and it always just left me in awe.
Several things were already looking sketchy. Nick was running late, which wasn't really a surprise. And we couldn't get a hold of the man at the Chr-stian radio station, which wasn't really a surprise either. Nafi probably called him like 15 times. Nick came and we recorded so at least that was done. When Nafi came back from doing sport, the 3 of us just pr-yed. So, so, so many things had to fall into place. And they all had to fall into place TODAY because mine & Abby's last chance to go distribute is tomorrow. So we just pr-yed that the L-rd would order our steps. We gave Him our day and started listening.
We needed the radio station because they are the ones who duplicate the cassettes from our master copy. So we went to the radio station even though we didn't know if we'd get the guy we needed. We walked in and greeted everybody, then Nafi started asking for the certain guy we needed. As they were telling us that he wouldn't be in because he was on vacation, he walked in! We went into his office and Nafi began to tell him what we needed. She told him that we had just completed a B-ble Story Set in the Sunny language and they must be put on cassettes today so that we could give them to Sunny people tomorrow. He looked so joyful and looked at us and clapped his hands together all excited. He said it would be very late before they would be ready, but that they could do them today. As we were making the final arrangements, one of his co-workers walked by and asked him what he was doing at work since he was on vacation. He said that we must have prayed for him to come...to which Nafi said, "oh, if you only knew."
We then went to find one of our company's translators to see if he would run an errand for us. We wanted to purchase a radio that would play cassettes as well as the SD cards so that we could leave it in the village where the women helped us test our Stories. He didn't know how much something like that would cost and neither did we, so Nafi just gave him enough to cover whatever it might be. It was about a fifth of the price we thought. Then we went to the phone store to get SD cards and a phone for Max with a SD slot as well as Bluetooth so that he could share Stories with people as he travels. The phones ended up being so inexpensive that we bought 4 of them. One for Max, one for Nick, one for Bryan...and one for H-Mama. We loaded hers up with all 32 Stories...and a bunch of pictures of Abby, Sarah, and I with her. We'll make sure it gets to her one way or another. Even though she doesn't have electricity, they always find a way to charge phones! And Nafi said that it was a very African "child" thing to do to buy a parent something like a phone.
We put the Stories on all of the little SD cards and tested them on the radio all evening. And then, around 10 Nafi & Abby went to the radio station to get our cassettes.
I just can't believe it's finally here. Every moment of the two years I spent here was working toward what will happen tomorrow. Every ping of homesickness, every frustration with language, every sweaty night in a tent, every bout with malaria was to see G-d glorified among the Sunny people. Every dance party, every laughing fit with H-Mama, every crazy exciting time we could see G-d at work was to see His Word made available to the Sunny people. Today was a day of answered pr-yer. He always answers in so much more amazing ways than I could even imagine!
Thankful for this today:
Psalm 72:18-19
"Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel,
Who alone works wonders.
And blessed be His glorious name forever;
And may the whole earth be filled with His glory. Amen, and Amen."
Please pray...
...that these Stories would fall on open ears and soft hearts.
...that we would have wisdom & discernment as we distribute.
...for language recall as we spend time with Sunny people in the next few days.
...for Bryan to see G-d's love for him.
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