The Jesus Film in Mafungo, Zambia

Yesterday I went with Van Thompson and three seminary students to show the “Jesus” film in Mafungo, about 2 hours outside of Lusaka. I’m sure you’ve heard about the global impact of this simple depiction of the Gospel of Luke. It’s been translated into hundreds of languages, using national church leaders as voices (my friend, Misheck Zulu from International Baptist Church is the voice of Jesus in one language version of the film here in Zambia).

It was a great experience to sit under the Southern Cross and other unfamiliar constellations and watch the story of Jesus with about 100 villagers. At the end of the film, a seminary student shared the gospel. Twenty-one responded.

Here is Mafungo Baptist Church:






Here we are setting up the equipment before supper:


I walked uphill to get a shot with some perspective. We are in the bush, and had to supply our own electricity through a generator to run the film:


We didn’t have to supply our own supper however. Notice to the left of this young man and his drum and you’ll see dinner is being prepared for us:


Pray for Mafungo Baptist Church, and their pastor, Ezron, pictured here, as they follow up on the 21 new believers from last night’s outreach: