Gates of Bronze and Bars of Iron

These past 12 days, we have seen God make good on this promise found in Isaiah. Let me list the ways:

1) Jim Hulse, founder and director of Towers for Jesus, at the ticket counter in the US before departing for Congo, had to call a supervisor after a forty-five minute discussion in South Bend, IN airport to get his bags checked all the way through to Kinshasa. The airport only wanted to check them through to South Africa, where he would have had to recheck them and pay again.

2) They refused his passage out to board the airplane because they said the visa in his passport was messy and in a language they couldn't read. It was in French (duh!).

3) South African airlines claimed one of his bags which contained all of his clothes and the vital power supply needed to repair the transmitter enabling us to broadcast at full power.

4) Before discovering that the radio exciter voltage had been changed to a different voltage, he pulled it into the wall and it exploded in his face. He was not hurt.

Then God sent a little humor:

5) While turning on the air conditioner in his bedroom in the nearby home we call the white house, he stood directly in front of the A/C and was blasted by a shower of bugs that had long since died way back in 2005.


Praises:

1) "Mama" has returned. This is what Radio Glory is called by the Congolese. We are back to broadcasting after four months of silence.

2) All of the radio equipment in the studio has been repaired and serviced and we are back to full power.

3) After climbing the 300 foot radio tower twice, Jim Hulse also came down 300 feet uninjured!

4) Recent local evangelism the past two weekends resulted in almost 300 people raising their hands to accept Christ.

5) We made payroll for the month of June! Yippee!!

6) Jim Hulse returned to his home after shutting the generator off just outside his door, only to step on a three and a half foot snake in the dark. Amazingly, he was not bitten! In fact, he thinks it's cool because now he has another great story to tell.

Lord you are our chosen and assigned portion, our cup. You hold and maintain our lot. Psalm 16:5