Zone Visit... Belated

Last weekend saw the the three territories of Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago gathering together for the Zone Visit. The programme was filmed in Trinidad and beamed by the wonder of the Interweb to over 23 different sites. It almost different happen.

For days before, various brothers and I had come together to liaise with the brothers in Trinidad to get the feed coming through a special portal site. Despite all efforts, the download speed could carry neither video nor sound. With vexation rising, we gave up and figured we would have to just use the audio-only backup system. On the day of the talks, again we tried in vain. 5 minutes before the programme was due to start we were still on the phone to Trinidad, who had no way of helping us at that point. Just as it was about to start, with us plugged into the audio only, we thought we would hit the refresh button one last time.

Thank you Jehovah! Up came a perfect picture of the brother walking onto the platform to start proceedings and his voice came through crystal clear with no delay!!! It ran for the whole programme with no issues whatsoever. I never believe these experiences when I read them, but now I am a convert! 

The programme was enjoyed by over 18,000 across the three territories, including translation into sign language, Carib, Chinese and some other languages that I can't remember. I had the privilege of doing most of the interpreting for our deaf, of which there were about 40. Due to this I missed most of the content, but I was able to record an audio of the whole presentation to review later. It was so nice to be part of the first joint-presentation for Guyana, as they only last year came under the auspice of Trinidad Branch. Despite the flooding mentioned in my previous post, the turn out was really good, filling out the rented school hall. Definitely one to remember.

As I go through the talk, I will try to post some factoids about the progress here in Guyana and our sister islands.