Today was conference day. After a solid six hours sleep I awoke early again at about 4:00pm. I created my blog post from yesterday, read the gospel of Mark, and enjoyed some time outside after sunrise.
We left for the conference at 8:30 and arrived to find a wedding ceremony being completed at the church. This was a couple renewing their vows after 25 years at 6:00am. There was a full wedding party there, everyone dressed to the T and a full celebration. Apparently they did it this early in the morning because we were scheduled to use the church at 9:00am. I tried to take a picture OF them but they had me stand in the photo WITH them.
The conference started late, at 10:00, because the attendance was very low at the scheduled start time. This also pushed the finish time back and forced us to skip a couple teaching topics at the end of the day, but by the end of the day there were 62 in attendance.
The conference went very well. Everyone taught their topics well, the class participation was top notch, and the breakout sessions gave the attendees a concept of how to serve in prison ministry.
We ate lunch with a few of the pastors, a lunch consisting of chicken (all parts), rice, coleslaw, beans with carrots, and bananas. I think most of us on the American team ate lightly.
Paul taught the session on strategic expansion using a map and flags – the Malawian nationals caught the vision and were intently listening and participating.
Paul also presented Dyghton and Platwell with our new PFC flag.
Carol presented the globe and explained that there is a sin problem in all 196 countries of the world and, therefore, there are prisons in every country of the world. The class held up the globe and prayed over the prisons of the world.
We returned to the hotel around 5:00pm and met for dinner at 6:30pm before retiring for the night. Tomorrow we head out very early to Zomba to preach at Domasi Prison and we will spend the night at a hotel in Zomba.
None Righteous 