A quick update, then a request. In short, Minembwe has quieted down due to some odd circumstances—the arrival of soldiers from neighboring Burundi and a leadership change in Minembwe within the DRC army. Problem solved? Not likely as things can/do change quickly here; we’ll see what happens. The biggest issue right now is that there’s not enough food to buy and feed the Burundian Army and the prices here in Minembwe have skyrocketed.
There’s a bigger problem on the horizon as the fighting north of us, near Goma (160 miles away) has escalated as the rebel group M23 has swept through this area. The result of this is that I’m still the only one of us here in Minembwe as the the airport that we use near Bukavu (south of Goma) has been closed for “repairs.” Miles hopes to make his way up here via the UN helicopter soon, but that process has stalled a bit as well.
Here’s my request. Aimable and I have been showing two versions of the Jesus Film with great success in churches and in schools. We stop the video from time to time to teach, but what we’d love to teach from would be graphics/slides of Bible stories. We want to put up graphics and teach from our Bibles; no text and no audio track is needed. I know what some of you are thinking, but a flannel board won’t work as we’re teaching fifty to hundreds at a time, and we meet in poorly lit buildings. Our projector works like a champ; please help us wear it out.
The graphics will be used for both kids and adults, but don’t worry about the level of sophistication of the graphics; everyone will be impressed as the only way to watch anything here is on a not-so-smart phone. It would be great if I could use the graphics in conjunction with Power Point (Windows as Mac isn’t an option) so we could intersperse the presentation with scripture and bullet points. It would be better if each story had too many graphics rather than too few. Please ask around, maybe starting with your church? Thanks!