Friday, July 12 - While we were debriefing last night, Jessie, who was on a family vacation in Thailand joined us so we are now 36. During debriefing, we heard many stories from the women prisoners and learned that several of these women in prison were framed by their "friends", or were given unusually long prison sentences for what we would consider relatively minor crimes, like carrying a very small amount of marihuana, but we also believe that God allowed them to be put in prison for His own glory - to find abundant life as many did yesterday, so indeed we can learn to give God thanks in all things. We met to eat breakfast and head off to the senior home we visited last year, but Pastor Ben stayed back because he went to the airport to pick up Joni, who arrived safely by herself through Manila and Singapore, so our team is finally complete. At the senior home, since Pastor Ben wasn't there, Marshall spoke so Slim led the program. A further complication arose because there was no keyboard, so Slim had to lead only songs we could sing acapella, but the group sang well, so well that we are going to try to schedule some time to record our singing. Natalie, Andrew, and Tia shared their testimony and Marshall shared from the parable of the lost coin from Luke 15. What made the sharing more interesting is that Marshall lost one of his contact lenses last night and he and Meiring spent over a half hour looking for it, using a flashlight, like the woman in the parable. Our God has a sense of humor and gives us unexpected trials to make His word even more relevant. Three old men responded to his invitation to receive Christ into their lives as a result. We ate our box lunches at the retirement home and did our small group devotion and then drove over to our fourth orphanage this week. This is the same orphanage we visited last year, that played the angklung, really more like a home as they do not put their children up for adoption, but grow the kids from infancy to adulthood. We sang a little, they sang a little and played the angklung, and broke up into two VBS groups as we did in the other orphanages. Czrilla led the high school group today because Pastor Ben wasn't with us and did a great job of presenting the Gospel. Throughout these 4 orphanages, almost everyone in Vision had a chance to share their testimonies, some more than once and God used each person to touch these kids. Today, almost all of the 50 or so children prayed to receive Christ although it is likely they are mostly believers already, but we thank God for the work of grace in these kids lives. We ate our dinner from the box lunches on the bus driving back and welcomed Joni when we got back and did our day's debriefing. We also had a chance to pray for those in our group who had coughs and sore throats. Interestingly, almost half of the Indonesian kids are experiencing a bad throat while only one of the American kids is having a problem. Health-wise, we are quite healthy this year (so far, so keep praying). Thank God for another tiring but meaningful and fulfilling day.
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