Sunday, July 25 - Today is our last full day in Indonesia. We had our morning devotions at 6:30 and ate breakfast, then boarded the bus for the mother church of GKY, the second largest Chinese church in Jakarta. We sang for the English service and Janine gave a powerful testimony while Pastor Ben found out he was suppose to preach only after we arrived, but he spoke from I John 2:15-17. The leaders of this congregation then took us our to lunch. We then went to see Stephen Tong's church, a complex which has several sanctuaries, a concert hall, and a 24 story tower with elementary school, music school and apartment units. The largest sanctuary seats 4500 and the newly dedicated concert hall seats 1200. What is awesome is the acoustics of the concert hall. It is wonderfully resonant and rich. We sang the Mozart Ave Verum (Jesu, Word of God Incarnate) and The Lord Bless You and Keep You there and it sounded so great. The sanctuary building is full of symbolism with 12 pillars (for the disciples) 4 columns for the 4 Gospels, etc. The tour took about an hour. After that, we drove to the Ambassador Mall and spent about an hour shopping before we met at the noodle shop for dinner and went to the 6 PM service. We couldn't get in at 5:30 because the 4 PM service wasn't completed yet. It is incredible how many people attend each service on Sunday. The 6 PM service was packed (1500 people). We sang My Jesus, I Love Thee, Slim gave her testimony and the men sang Find Us Faithful. We then left to drop off Fiona and Eugene at the airport since they leave after midnight to go to Manila and Hong Kong while the rest of us leave Monday. Pastor Ben and Joe stayed to see them off while we returned to SPH to say good bye to the three remaining Indonesian girls (Jessie left last night), Kitin, Holy, and Felis. Eric is having some stomach problems and perhaps running a low grade fever so he is going to bed earlier than the rest of the group, who are having a long good bye session. Since we fly back tomorrow, this is likely the last report until we return.
Couple of things I forgot to mention. Thursday night after we returned from Ambassador Mall, Pastor Ben could not find his camera. So Friday, during debriefing he mentioned this and asked that we pray for its recovery. About an hour after we prayed, he got a text from the church at the Mall saying they had found his camera last night while cleaning up. It was a great and quick answer to our prayers. Here are a couple of other debriefing comments:
- 2 people said that they are seriously planning to take the Perspectives Class the next time it was offered.
- One person plans to start a small discipleship group with at least a couple of current Vision members.
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