Today is Good Friday, the day we commemorate the death of the Lord Jesus Christ, so I want to begin this post by saying a very big THANK YOU JESUS! Of course we remember His death every day, and I do particularly as I have Communion each morning and night, but it is important to have a special day when we remember the events of that terrible wonderful day when the Sinless One took on the sin of the world.
The ongoing rolling blackouts here seem to have taken on a pattern: power goes off around 6 to 6.30 in the morning, and stays off for most of the day. It makes doing any computer work difficult, as once the computer has lost its charge I have to wait for power to come back on before I can do any more. When I get home I am definitely going to look into one of those power packs that you charge and then can run the computer from for five or six hours.
Of course, the other thing that doesn’t work when the power is out is the fan. As mentioned in my last post, the room here has good air flow, but it still gets quite hot particularly in the afternoon, as it is on the west side of the building. Yesterday I was very grateful for some rain, which cooled things down nicely in the morning. But overall, God is teaching me to praise Him in the challenges, and there is a lot of that going on.
The conference/crusade where I am ministering this week is only small, maybe 20 to 30 people, but there has been a good response. So far one person has received Jesus as Lord and Saviour, seven have recommitted their lives to Him, and four have received healing while I have been ministering. Tonight is the final night, and the Lord has impressed me to minister on healing, and then to lay hands on people for the baptism in the Holy Spirit and then for healing. Excitedly anticipating what He is going to do.
Tomorrow morning I hope to go shopping. I need to buy an additional small bag. All the gifts that these lovely people have given me in the course of this trip have taken me considerably over the 23kg weight that I am allowed for my flight back to Australia. The flight from Liberia to Kenya is not a problem, as I am allowed two bags, but if my case is overweight for Qantas I will be charged $80 per kg for excess baggage. Yikes! So the plan is to get an extra bag and put some of the gifts into it for the trip from here to Kenya, then leave that bag with Mary and Adams, and next time I come try to make sure that I have room for some extra kilos.
Another challenge that has come up – at the beginning of the year, Kenya announced that it is now visa-free. Fantastic. But a good thing that I checked. Instead of visas, they now require an electronic Travel Authority (eTA) – which as far as I can tell is just a visa under another name. And, of course, the web site where you are supposed to apply for the eTA keeps timing out.