Blessings from the Sky!

Blessings from the Sky!

At the end of January,  Larry Henderson (Instructor of Bible and Asian Coordinator for the Halbert Center for Missions and Global Service) was a plane captain for a special secret jump - as in skydiving out of a perfectly sound airplane from high altitude: an expert skydiver among 47 other expert skydivers. Their purpose: film a jump that forms the Chinese Character "Blessing" literally falling out of the sky/heavens for the annual New Year's Eve television show seen by over a billion people in China. "Blessing from Heaven" is apparently a common new year saying.

Upon arrival in Florida for the jump someone told the jump leader "You have arranged great Florida weather for us!" The leader, who is a believer, responded to everyone, "Two months ago, Larry [Henderson] told me he was already praying for good weather. This is a 'Blessing from Heaven'!" Practice plus seventeen jumps later the team successfully formed the character 'Blessing' coming from the sky. As Larry shared with me, how's that for a message from believers to over a billion Chinese people? The super secretive video was aired on New Year's Eve (our time on Thursday morning between 8:00 and 8:45 CST, Feb. 15).

To see a trailer for the video click here.

To see another promo of the jump click here.

For a 15 minute mini documentary on the jump that includes the final product (you will see Larry's face about 12 minutes into the video) click here:

(In the photo above, Larry is the 4th person from the bottom on the left. He has a one handed grip on two guys facing the other side and three people are tagged on behind Larry.)

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