Thursday, July 14 - We left a few minutes after 8 AM, having loaded all our luggage on the bus, eaten breakfast and checked out of our rooms, a minor miracle! After picking up Oma Wisu, we then headed to the womern's prison where we went last year. Surprisingly, only a handful of women were still there from last year. Most of the 40 plus women had been transferred there within the last year, including 4 or 5 women who had just been transferred there from Jakarta only a few days ago and still in quarantined (they wore pink shirts) but allowed to join us since we were an outside group and this was a special occasion. The Chinese lady who spoke almost no Indonesian was still there but she happily told us she would be released in a month. She was not a believer last year but a lady from the Chinese church had faithfully been doing a Bible study with her and she accepted Christ within the last year so she was very joyful. We also met a second Chinese lady who told us she also became a believer in prison and said going to prison was the best thing that ever happened to her since she found Christ in prison She is gung-ho to evangelize the rest of her family when she gets released. We had a great time worshiping and singing. Katie and Nadia shared their testimonies and we also performed two skits. Pastor Ben preached from John 4 about the Samaritan women receiving living water. 30 of the 40 plus women prayed to receive Christ, including all the women in pink who were the recent transfers to this prison in quarantine. Clearly, God had divinely led us to visit this women's prison at this time. Praise Him!
We then got back on the bus and dropped off Oma Wisu to and drove back to Jakarta. The ride again took about 4 hours due to heavy traffic as we got to Jakarta, but we made it safely to the school (UPH) and met up with Ronald and Rian. By now, Joni should have left Los Angeles and be winging her way to join us tomorrow. We checked in, walked across the street to the mall to have dinner and returned to the MYC apartment where U Marsh and A Mei are staying to have our evening devotions and debrief our day. Everyone is staying at the school hotel, ten rooms which UPH uses to train students who major in hotel management (where the guys stayed last year). The rooms are quite nice, like those of a 4 star hotel, but since most rooms are set up for 2 persons and we have 35, the school had to add mattresses on the floor to fit 3 or 4 per room. However, the Huangs are staying at the MYC apartments, a two bedroom, two bath unit with living room and kitchen which is used by visiting faculty, a first class lusurious apartment of about 1500 sq. ft. They are being spoiled here, an unexpected blessing provided by a loving Lord for His children. The plan is for the group to meet in this apartment and eat breakfast here.
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