The Gremlins......
Would value your prayers at the moment. John has spent a huge amount of time and effort recently, as well as extensive research, to try and upgrade a great deal of the sound system at church. His ethos has always been that it’s not only important that the gospel message is faithfully preached at church; it also needs to be faithfully heard, and that means a reliable sound system, the best that we can budget for.
He takes this role very seriously indeed.
However, in recent weeks, we have had a number of things go wrong, right in the middle of services, or just as a service is about to start - it feels like gremlins invading the system. We use a lot of batteries, for example, and put fresh ones in for each service – but recently, some of these have failed. One of our best radio mikes (I call it the Rice Krispie – it’s about a big as one, and is worn over the ear and comes around to the side of your mouth – lightweight, and superb) stopped working the night before I was due to use it for Ladies Day, and it might mean that it has to be shipped back to the States for repair. Not necessarily huge things in themselves, but there are a number of factors to consider.
Firstly, all these pieces of equipment have come from different places – so it’s not a manufacturing problem in one company.
For so many to malfunction in the same few weeks is hardly a coincidence.
John and I now feel that this falls under the realm of “enemy action”
He is concerned, that having overall responsibility for the system, the buck stops with him.
Lastly, and by no means least, God has blessed his company with a number of important contracts – but that does mean that he is seriously up to his eyes with work right now.
It is getting beyond a joke, and I also believe that satan is trying to interrupt the flow of worship by these problems.
Your prayers would be much appreciated – thank you
He takes this role very seriously indeed.
However, in recent weeks, we have had a number of things go wrong, right in the middle of services, or just as a service is about to start - it feels like gremlins invading the system. We use a lot of batteries, for example, and put fresh ones in for each service – but recently, some of these have failed. One of our best radio mikes (I call it the Rice Krispie – it’s about a big as one, and is worn over the ear and comes around to the side of your mouth – lightweight, and superb) stopped working the night before I was due to use it for Ladies Day, and it might mean that it has to be shipped back to the States for repair. Not necessarily huge things in themselves, but there are a number of factors to consider.
Firstly, all these pieces of equipment have come from different places – so it’s not a manufacturing problem in one company.
For so many to malfunction in the same few weeks is hardly a coincidence.
John and I now feel that this falls under the realm of “enemy action”
He is concerned, that having overall responsibility for the system, the buck stops with him.
Lastly, and by no means least, God has blessed his company with a number of important contracts – but that does mean that he is seriously up to his eyes with work right now.
It is getting beyond a joke, and I also believe that satan is trying to interrupt the flow of worship by these problems.
Your prayers would be much appreciated – thank you