Journal Entry – Monday March 11, 2013
You may have heard me mention this before, but I have always believed that Satan is – extremely – alive and well in Haiti. (My personal theory is that demonic forces and evil spirits gain strength from being worshipped, and VooDoo of course is still quite prevalent in Haiti.) This was quite evident today, as it has been many times before.
JT’s number one priority for the day – the thing that he has been most excited about, and that he clearly considers a really big deal – is the taping of two hour-long TV shows that will be broadcast in prime time on Haiti’s top-rated TV station to millions of Haitians in the Port-au-Prince area. He REALLY wants the four of us in on this, and we’ve been prepping for it the last 24 hours.
So we get to the TV station at the scheduled time, and the woman at the TV station apologetically explains that, she’s not sure why, but for some reason they’ve completely lost power to the TV station, and that they’re working feverishly to get it restored, but she’s really not sure how long it will take. She says that maybe we can come back tomorrow, but JT explains that we have to leave early tomorrow for Hinche, because we are preaching there tomorrow afternoon. She tells him to call her back later in the day, and she’ll give him a status report.
We leave the TV station, and immediately begin praying that God will remove any obstacle or impediment to us doing whatever He wants us to do.
By the end of the day the power still has not been restored, so our current “Plan B” is to try again first thing tomorrow morning, and delay our departure for Hinche if we’re able to tape the TV shows in the morning.
So that’s the current “holding pattern.” It’s 11:51pm, and I’m going to try to sleep.
Journal Entry – Tuesday March 12, 2013
We DO get to record the two 1-hour TV programs. Takes almost SIX hours total at the station, but JT says the owner of the TV station REALLY likes it, and JT is very excited. He says that each episode will air several times, and will likely be viewed by more than a million people. He also says that when they are able to have TV programs like this running, it significantly increases the number of visitors at Delmas 28, and the number of weekly baptisms.
