Sunday, July 24 - Today is our last day in Jakarta. We left on the bus at 7:30 to head downtown to Kitin and Icha's church, a Baptist church where Pastor Ben and En used to attend and where Nadia was baptized. Jaspher and Janine stayed behind since they were not feeling well (achy and stomach, respectively). We sang "Soli Deo Gloria" with their youth choir of about 20 singers and "Fairest Lord Jesus" before the message and participated in the Lord's supper after the message. The sanctuary was quite packed (at least 250 people). It was great to have a choir of over 50 singers sing Soli. After the service, we had fellowship with this youth choir, sang Cantate Domino for them and talked about what we did on tour. They in turn showed a slide show when they went to Kalimantan two weeks ago to do 4 days of VBS in some remote villages 5 and 8 hours away from the capital city where their plane landed. It was very encouraging to see how this church is reaching out and planting new churches all over Indonesia. They have a thriving discipleship program and require their members to all be either attending Sunday School or teaching it. We then ate a wonderful lunch they prepared for us. After lunch, we headed to a Pentecostal church which is holding their initial youth service on Sunday afternoon. Although there were only about 20 youths there, we sang, did a skit and Holy shared her testimony. Pastor Ben spoke, even though he is feeling very tired and is probably a little sick. We then returned to our dorm to do our last devotion, debrief Slim (who was really tired yesterday and skipped her debriefing) and got ready for our Home Concert. At this time, we also found out that all 12 Indo-Vision team members want to return and continue doing ministry with us next year. Fanny has also said she will volunteer to direct the choir but asked for help so we need an administrator/spiritual leader for this group. Pray for this as we believe God will bring it to pass in His time.
We met at 6 for a catered dinner. We had been expecting 100 for Home Concert and there were about 70 family members and friends of the Indo-Vision team, so together with our whole team of 39 members, we had well over 100 people. The bus driver came with his wife and 3 of his children (his oldest, a high schooler did not come). Before dinner and the rest of the guest arriving, we had a chance to present him our collection, almost 40M rupiahs (about $450) which we collected. He again asked us to pray for the settlement of his case so he can go back to work. Marshall gave him a Bible and told him that has the answers to his problems, so please remember to pray for him. Unfortunately, he and his family left after dinner as he had to get his kids home to get ready for school on Monday, but we know God's timing is perfect, just keep praying. As far as Home Concert itself, we had 6 of the Indonesian kids give testimonies, showed a short video (which you can see at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuJ2SgRocX0) and sang for about an hour and 15 minutes. We ended in time for Eugene and Brian Lee to catch a cab for the airport. Endang brought Janine to the hospital as she continues to have a stomach ache but praise God, the doctor said it was not appendicitis but a stomach infection so she was given a prescription of antibiotics. Some of us will try to get some sleep tonight although most of the kids will spend the night saying tearful good-byes and sleep on the plane tomorrow. This will definitely be the last update from Indonesia.
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