Dear Melissa,

I can’t explain why – maybe it’s because it’s Africa & there are no spare parts, & no Best Buys around the corner, but every film showing comes extremely close to never happening. I remember this from when I spent 3 months in Kenya doing this also. So tonight, our group lost an adapter so that the generator was African voltage & the projector was American voltage – so they didn’t connect. Finally one of the Cameroon team members cut the chord in half, stripped it & rewired it. Someone forgot the stakes to stake the screen into the ground so we found some government building to show the film on. Then, there was no audio chord to the speakers, so we had to take turns holding the mic next to the computer audio for the whole movie. Then they realized they had forgotten the gas for the generator, so a kindly African volunteer hopped on his moped to go find some. His motorcycle broke down on the way, so some other volunteer took over from there, while he got help. Eventually, & miraculously, with lots of prayer, it almost always seems to work out. Really I think it is because these African people just never give up no matter how long it takes. They believe there is a solution & they don’t quit until they find it. Also, it shows how important this film showing is to them. When they asked our Cameroon leader what we were going to do after he had cut and stripped that chord in case we needed it tomorrow, he said “But we need to deal with today.” Then he quoted us this scripture “Don’t worry about tomorrow for today has enough troubles of its own.” (Matthew 6:34)