While in Michika we were guests of Peter. This was a lovely home and not the traditional mud hut. He offers his home as a base for missionaries and is a special friend of Bitrus and Monica.
A delicacy in NE Nigeria is fried grasshopper and Peter had these available for our morning breakfast. They are called "desert shrimp" and curry is sprinkled on them............they really crunch.
On this day we travelled north towards Niger and Chad. This was another mountain area. The Cameroon Mountains in the west (previous trip) are similar to the Great Smokey Mountains in the USA. The church was in an open field and only a few homes were visible in the distance. Six mission stations had been invited to attend the seminar. About 180 people attended and they trekked from upwards to 20 km each way to come. This was their annual conference and the theme for the year was "Peace". The generator was very small and we did not seem to have enough power to run the projector or the computer. We thought there was an issue with the power cord so gave the young men setting things up our power cord and adaptor. Apparently the adaptor would not work with the generator so they "hot wired" directly to the plug-in of the extension cord. Not a good plan.............the projector appeared to have no power and the computer cable really started to smoke. We quickly pulled all of the stuff. God has a sense of humour because we realized after the fact that these people were illiterate and the power point would have been a distraction. Again Bitrus and another pastor did some interpretation..........tribal language to Hawse then to English for our benefit.
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