Wednesday, July 13 - Fiona Hsiung and Brian Kuan arrived safely at midnight and were met at the airport by Pastor Ben and Joseph. They got back about 2 AM. We met at 6:30 AM to have group devotions and started breakfast around 7:30. Brian Kuan was one of the first to come to devotions even though he slept only a few hours and Joseph and Fiona joined us for breakfast around 8. During our group sharing, Marshall shared how he was prayed for healing for his cold and cough and how God did heal him so that Vision could pray for healing. Since we have been studying Jesus' miracles in John the last few days, we felt it was time so we prayed for healing for Brian Lee's back (which was hurt in a rear sender a few days before leaving with Vision), Eugene's sore left ankle, and for several in the group with coughs and sore throats (Eric, Brian Chioy, Brian Kuan, Czrilla, Felis, and Adi) and we also prayed for Kitin who has having blood pressure problems by laying hands on them. All felt better and were able to do the ministry today. We left at 8:30 to go to the RPUK senior home, located about 2 hours away out in the country side, a beautiful scenic and lush location. We got there a few minutes before 11 and found about 60 seniors seated and patiently waiting for us to start. We sang, did the heart skit, Nadia shared her testimony about her grandfather's home going and Pastor Ben gave a short message. After this, we asked those wanting prayer to raise their hands and we broke into about 7 small groups with one Indonesian interpreter in each group to pray for the elderly. During this time, En and Czrilla prayed for one lady who turned out to be a Muslin but really wanted to pray to accept Jesus as her savior. Later, Meiring had a chance to talk to her and she said she had Jesus in her heart. This lady used to teach agriculture at the University and was quite conversant in English. Her husband was also there, and he too is a Muslim but not yet ready to accept the Lord. Pray for her growth and her husband's salvation (he too was a university professor). We praise God for this one lost sheep who has been found and pray many more at this retirement community will also find salvation (although about 80% are suppose to be Christians already).
We then drove over to the Indonesian Care for Cancer Kids Foundation (YKAKI), a place like the Ronald McDonald House where families can stay (for free) while their kids are being treated for cancer. These families can stay as long as their kids are undergoing treatment. There were 15 families there on this day, 6 just having been admitted yesterday. We were suppose to go minister at the Doubly Handicapped children's home but that was canceled and this place a last minute substitution. What we did not realize was that this was a divine appointment. Only about 2/3 of the group came inside and the rest stood outside the door since we did not want to infect these patients who had weakened immunity systems, so we sang inside while the group stood outside the open door and sang from there. The leader of YKAKI, one of the co-founders who also lost her child to cancer a few years ago, introduced us with some caution, saying we were a Christian group and for the Muslims there to just enjoy the music. After we sang, the residents sang to us also and En read them a story, cleverly telling them about how God wants them all to come to His banqueting table. Then we asked if we could pray for the kids. The leader immediately invited those Christians to go to a separate room (2 families) and most of the inside Vision team went to pray for these two kids. Meanwhile, Pastor Ben and Marshall approached this leader if we could ask the Muslim families if they also wanted prayer. She was surprised we would ask and told us to go ahead, so Pastor Ben asked who wanted prayer. One by one, they all raised their hands after watching the love our kids had shown going to pray for these two Christian families. These Muslim families shared what was wrong with each of their child so we started to pray using our Indonesian team members to interpret. Before we had finished praying, our other Vision members had completed praying and soon, all the Muslim families were seated on the floor and we were able to pray for each of the children. One lady even ran back to bring her child out to be prayed for, just like you read in the Bible how the mothers' brought their children out for Jesus to pray for them. The prayers for these children and their families were powerful, asking God not only for healing of their physical bodies but of their soul. Jeanine started to pray for a 10 year old girl with a horribly deformed skull from the cancer growth and as she asked God what to say, she was suddenly given words from the Lord that this child was beautiful and how God saw her as perfect and Jeanine started to weep over this child as she saw her from God's eyes. Her mother started to cry as Jeanine prayed. One mother had a daughter with cancer. She used to be a Christian but gave up her faith when she married a Muslim man, but the cancer of her daughter brought this woman back to Christ and now her husband is also open to the Lord. One woman had two sons both with bone cancer. We prayed boldly for healing for these kids and wept openly with the parents while also praying for the family to come to Christ. The lady who ran the place was amazed that the Muslims were so open to asking for prayer and just changed her paradigm of how things should be done. She promised to update Pastor Ben on the kids' progress, but we fully believe God has already healed several of these kids and that God won a great victory in the spiritual realm at YKAKI. When we returned to our dorm after dinner, we had a great time of rejoicing and prayer, thanking God for what He did. Soli Deo gloria.
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