We stayed at the La Grandees Suites & Apartment hotel and restaurant. Electricity was out upon arrival; and we repacked a couple PFC bags in the dark by phone flashlight and headlights so newly acquired bricks of Naira could be localized in one bag. Electricity came on literally at bedtime and went back off around 3am. Room temp rose above 80F. Opening the bathroom and main room windows and the room door allowed a small breeze, which lowered the room temperature somewhat. The hallway outside was totally dark so who cares if the door is open!
Friday March 15
Breakfast in hotel restaurant with Pastor Matthew and wife Bright. Egg sandwiches (moist toasted bread with maybe ¼ cup scrambled egg), and powder mix – “White Coffee” (tastes pretty good). Bob’s devotion was on The Heartbeat of God, which is the souls of mankind. PFC’s heartbeat is the souls of inmates worldwide.
Immediately left for Keffi Prison (Nigerian Keffi tribe is from this area, predominant historic tribal culture) about 2 hours away. Each car has one member of the Nigerian Police
and his AK-47 automatic weapon, with emergency
blinkers on and driving as fast as humanly possible taking all priority regardless of which car has wheel in front, would cause huge crashes in India, everybody leans the other way and we slip forward. Trucks, buses, vans, cars, motorcycles, tuk-tuks and pedestrians battle for passage on 1 or two-lane paved roads, but the roads towards Keffi are over-used and very potholed. Arrived at Keffi Prison about 20 mins early, stacked
humanitarian aid for obligatory picture, about 6 volunteers went in with us, guys that run the International Chaplaincy School, the Certified Prison Worker School, and the “regular” Bible studies and Chapel Services. Budget this trip is $235/prison for Humanitarian Aid and for 6 prisons is $1,410, which goes a long way in Africa, and more than $2,245 raised separate for Bibles, when we needed $1,750. What’s not spent on this trip will be during the next trip. For all prisons, we are not allowed to bring in cameras/phones. Any photos are taken by the authorities, and sometimes we got them later, and sometime we did not. Before we go into the Keffi Prison Chapel, we have our National Associate, in this
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