Emil and the lost Amazonian Tribe

Last week Emil phoned me from Peru.

By now, he is a week into a 2-week journey (up the Amazon river by boat, then on foot) where the destination is an isolated tribe of Indians who have never been told about Jesus. This particular tribe has only been in contact with Westerners on a couple of occasions, and the reception was less than polite.

Emil won't be able to contact us for at least a couple of months... the deepest darkest parts of the jungle don't have good cell phone or internet coverage... yet ;-)

Please pray that Emil would have continued divine protection, anointing, health and that the tribe will welcome them, and it will be start of a great spiritual awakening there.

Loud!

At last week's Flame service, Ben Larrit won our somewhat impromptu shouting contest with is whopping 116 dB! The current Guinness World record is 121.7 dB. Ben wasn't that far off (although, we don't know how far from the shout our dB meter should be). Ben's shout was equivalent to a sandblaster. Heh.

There has always been debate about how loud is too loud when it comes to worship band volumes.

Maxed-out worship at Flame Youthchurch is around 100 dB (for anyone who is wondering). At that volume, we could have a two-hour non-stop-maxed-out worship time before there would be danger of permanent hearing loss (for anyone who is wondering).

Click here to discover more. Isn't it interesting how loud a clarinet is ;-)