Raquel and David O.

On Friday evening, Ceri came with David Ortiz and I to our church, at Pukak. The church is the last one on a string of churches connected by the same road; it took about 40 minutes to reach it. The road ran out before we got to the church, so the last part of the trip was very bumpy. I was preaching that night, and when we got there, I immediately went inside the church to set up my equipment. That’s when I discovered that the power adapter was not in the case. This was a big problem because I couldn’t plug my American plugs into their Malaysian outlets, and thus I couldn’t use my projector or plug in my laptop. The sermon for that night was very important, so we immediately wondered if ulterior powers were at work. As Ceri and I walked over behind the church to the potluck building to eat supper, I wondered what we could do. All during supper and into the start of the program, we were thinking and praying. How likely would it be that they would have an adapter for American plugs way out here in the jungle? We knew there was nothing we could do except pray for a miracle.

Guess what? God came through! Right before we needed to start playing the Jesus video with the powerless projector, an old, nearly toothless elder came up to us, carrying a dinosaur sized adapter with three American outlets on it! David ‘s smile was huge as he plugged in the projector and laptop.

That night the church was more full than it’s ever been for the meetings. There were even 5 full pews outside the church. As I got up to preach, we were all rejoicing over the LORD’S providence way out here in Sabah.

-Raquel