Thursday, July 15 - When we shared with several people here today about our opportunity to pray for Muslim families, many responded with tears. It is apparently quite unusual in this culture for Muslims to allow infidels like Christians to pray for them. The parents of these cancer stricken children were so desperate for hope and good news that God prepared their hearts to be open to our request to pray for them and their children. Please join us to uphold these kids and their parents so that when God heals them, they will become the seeds for a spontaneous church growth movement among the Muslims in their home villages after they return there with their children cured of cancer.
We met at 6 AM to start our morning devotion, but unfortunately, missed about half a dozen members who couldn't get up. We had to leave before 7 AM to go sing for a weekly worship service at Siloam Hospital, just next to our dorm. We had expected about 20 doctors and nurses, but instead found a room quite filled with about 60 hospital staff, but also a speaker already scheduled (apparently, there was a mix-up in scheduling) but it was a good lesson for us to learn to be servants who might not be called on but to just wait. We did get to sing at the end of the program and Brian Lee was examined by an Orthopedic specialist (who just gave him some muscle relaxant) while both Brian Chioy and Jaspher also got to see a GP for their colds. Both got some antibiotics and other medication and are doing OK. By the way, Aaron Poli, Pastor Ben and En's young son, who is also here in Jakarta and staying with his grandmother while the rest of his family is with Vision, was diagnosed with typhoid so remember him in prayer, that the antibiotics he is taking will be effective. We then took the bus (while eating breakfast on route) to a handicapped school run by some Catholic sisters. We found about 60 children of all ages waiting for us when we arrived. They sang for us and we sang for them and did the sin chair skit. An autistic boy played piano for us and one sang. We then toured the school and met this lady who is their arts and handcraft instructor, who gave up a profitable accounting career to teach these children and finding great joy and fulfillment in doing so. One thing we noticed here is how caring the older children are to the younger, even though they were mentally challenged (many of them were autistic or Down Syndrome children). We finished just around noon and got back on the bus to go to GKY Greenville to meet up with their team going to minister to the street kids later that day. The church opened up a room for us to rest up so we ate out sack lunch there and rested and spend about an hour rehearsing. We then left the church around 4:15 PM to head to the street kids ministry.
Imagine our surprise to walk into a sweltering room at 5 PM with over a hundred men and women (no children) worshiping. This was their weekly Union Rescue type mission meeting and not a street kids ministry at all (another language miscommunication). About half the people here were non-Christians who came to get some assistance (today was Raman noodles and toothpaste give away day) but that did not stop the other half from fervently worshiping. We sang a couple of songs, Eugene shared his testimony how God loves him, and we sang another couple of songs and Pastor Ben preached. While Ben was preaching, we went upstairs where about 100 kids were meeting in a smaller and even warmer room. These children were having a wonderful time, and when we sang for them, some were dancing and just enjoying the music (somehow, they found the room). When we were done, we met up with Pastor Ben to return to our dorm (which took almost 2 hours in heavy traffic), where we debriefed our day's activities and met Andrew, who finally returned. Turns out Andrew is another tenor and not a bass, but a very nice young man who is in his second year of attending teacher's college. Since we are leaving early for Bandung tomorrow and still need to pack up, we ended the night early.
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