Awesome Answer to Prayer

I thought it might be good to document this great story--which occurred this Easter week...

It started with an email from my co-worker in the Pacific Islands with an unusual prayer request...

Essentially, Wes was asking for the recovery of a computer that had been stolen from our office in Fiji. The computer had over three weeks of hard work stored on it in dubbing the Jesus film into a local dialect. The project was near completion (and just meeting a deadline for production) when the computer was stolen.

I prayed (a bit half-heartedly I must admit) and pretty much forgot about it until I received this email a couple of days later...

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Subject:
Fantastic Prayer Answer

Date:
Thu, 5 Apr 2007 16:59:23 +1200

From:
Wes Brenneman

Dear Praying Friends,

You are part of a miracle! I am excited to be able to report to you that we have seen a very exciting answer to prayer for the Jesus Film recording in Fiji.

The stolen computer was recovered! That in itself was quite a story. Apparently on Tuesday night one of the investigating police officers was off duty and was "impressed by the Lord" to go back and check one of the pawn shops they had previously gone to. The computer was there!

But the miracle story continues.... unfortunately the data on the hard drive had been deleted.... but miracles still happen! Just today the Jesus Film Master Studio in Orlando obtained a software program that can restore deleted files. So they sent the software to the team in Fiji over the internet and it worked! The entire "lost" recording of the Fijian Jesus Film was recovered!

Now here's the icing on the cake.... The 18 year old boy who stole the computer was apprehended, as was the technician who "fenced" the computer and deleted the hard drive, and also the pawn shop owner. The police brought the boy to the office to confirm how he had stolen the computer (just a chance/"fluke" thing, nothing planned in advance -- he just walked into the office and saw the computer and snatched it). While in the office today he got to talking to the recording team about what they were doing with the computer and one of the team, Kim, shared the gospel with the boy
and he prayed to receive Christ!

I know you will rejoice with us over this great news! Thank you so much for praying! Since Satan has tried so hard to sabotage this project, imagine the impact this film is going to have!

Serving Jesus with you,

Wes Brenneman

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So isn't that a great Easter story...

The Jesus film master was stolen and deleted (kinda like "crucified and buried") and several days later, God raised it up again!

Oh me of little faith!!!

I have been having some fun thinking of headlines for this story...

"Robber takes Jesus out...and Jesus brings robber in!"

"Jesus (film) crucified and resurrected."

"Can't keep a good man down...or a good movie!"

Rejoicing this Easter...