Minor corrections - It is nuttella jam and not metallica jam and Kitin is an alto and Holly is a soprano, so as a group we will have 7 sopranos, 4 altos, 5 tenors, and when Brian joins us this evening and Andrew on Thursday, 6 basses.
Monday, July 12 - We met at 6:30 AM to have our group devotion and eat breakfast at 7:30 to prepare for our first day of ministry outside the church. Our devotion time was quite spirited (at such an early hour of the morning)! We also debriefed our impressions from the church activities on Sunday. It was really encouraging to hear two of the local students share how they were touched by the testimonies they heard from our kids, that they thought the testimonies showed how much we loved God and that they wanted to be like us. Joseph pointed out that at all three services we attended yesterday, there was a lot of emphasis on asking God for forgiveness and confession pf sin and not much on relating to God as a friend. Perhaps this is an aspect of God's character that we can bring to these dear brothers and sisters in the Lord. Two items of praise: everyone on the team is really getting along well together and there is a lot of love and caring shown among the members and we have hardly been bitten by mosquitoes, as the campus we are staying is sprayed campus wide 3 times a week.
We were supposed to go a women's prison this morning but it got canceled at the last minute. However, we were able to go to a different prison (for young men) but had to share the program with a church group already scheduled to do ministry there. So we sang 4 songs and did the sin chair skit and listened to a prisoner give his testimony and a prisoner from Nigeria sang for us. The chaplain for this prison shared how he was able to build the meeting room and get it dedicated as a Christian chapel and furnish it with gifts from the churches and donations from the prisoners. In a prison of 2000 inmates, he said there were 250 Christians there. It was a good first experience for many of our team who have never been in a prison before, but we really did not get a chance to do much evangelism, as most of the audience were already believers. We did pass out the bags of toothpaste, toothbrushes and soaps we brought here to these prisoners and each member got to shake the prisoners' hand.
We then drove downtown and ate a sack lunch to sing to a senior women's home. This is also run by a church and we found about 30 ladies (we called them omas - a Dutch word for grandmothers) who were so happy to have us there and praised God with us for His goodness. We arrived about an hour early and it was so hot and humid there even with two air conditioners operating we just sat around to rest (and play some card games). A few of the girls got together to pray for another girl in Vision who was very lethargic. It is wonderful to see how she perked up when we started to sing and was her old self after the service. We sang a fairly full program of almost an hour including 3 testimonies from Jeremy, Kitin and Pastor Ben. Jeremy shared how God answered his family's prayer for his dad's job. Kitin shared how God saved her life when she was a child of about 5 from a very high fever and after she got prayed for a year later, was able to discard all her medication that the Doctor insisted that she take or would die within a couple of days had she stopped taking the medication (she has not taken this medication since that day about 10 years ago). Pastor Ben also shared his testimony of how he lost his arm to cancer when he was a baby while Nadia, his daughter translated his Indonesian message to English for our benefit. We then drove to Endang's mother's home where we had a wonderful dinner prepared for us. En's mother had invited a lot of her friends and neighbors so we sang to them before dinner and had a great time of worship after dinner in her living room before returning to our dorm. We had a good day even though we did not get to meet many non-Christians today.
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