Indonesia Tour 2011 (Bandung)
Written by Joana Zimmerli Wednesday, 27 April 2011 07:18
Our Indonesia Tour has three important parts.
Check out latest reports and pictures from Timika, Manokwari and Bandung!
Click on the pictures to watch more videos of Indonesia !
This is where you sow into! Thank you so much for standing with us! Your prayer and support make it possible for us to go to the nations and bring the wonderful Gospel of Jesus Christ!
Together for the Lost,
Suzette & Team
The Character Training Camps follow our Prayer Conference and Gospel Outreach, and they are intended to complement all that has preceded them. The meetings last for three days and are divided into male and female groups; all pastors and new converts are encouraged to attend. The word camp is a bit of a misnomer, because the meetings are all held in halls or auditoria.
The vision of the camp is to create a good biblical foundation, especially for the new believers, to provide basic discipleship training and, whenever possible, each pastor will be given a solar powered mp3 player, from which they can listen to the word of God in their own language. These “Mega Voice” units, costing $30 each, play a key part in spreading the gospel to the interior and remote areas of Papua and Indonesia.
The first day of the Timika character training camp started off for the ladies with a Genesis-based foundation of their own identity and values before God, together with their purpose and vision. It was absolutely fantastic to see the theme of victorious living in Christ being explained to, and enjoyed by, these ladies.
Meanwhile, the men, in a separate area, had a different theme for their first day. It was a time of envisioning, of defining purpose and roles, but also a day of opening up to one another, listening, talking, forgiving, and simply blessing one another.
For both parties, these are not merely ‘sit down and pay attention’ meetings, they are totally participatory, one-on-one, or group activities, with everyone being able to derive benefit and confidence based on the topic taught. Growth is the key-word that many go away with.
We do not boast when we say that we rejoiced to see this third part of the outreach in place in Timika; we give God all the glory for it, for we know by the smiles and attitude of the delegates that they have been so encouraged in their respective walks with the Lord.
For three days, they came and rejoiced, until they had to return to their own towns and villages and begin to put into practice that which they had learnt. May God be with them as they follow Jesus.
Bangka
Bangka lies just east of Sumatra, separated by the Bangka Strait; to the north lies the South China Sea, and to the south is the Java Sea.
They call Bangka the “silent Island”, but there was nothing silent about last night’s meeting at all. To think that the committee had only one month to set up this entire outreach and they pulled it off with success!
Although we only had two days here, I was really the guest of the National Prayer Movement of Indonesia (JDN), and I was honoured to minister here with Pak Robinson and Pak Daniel Pangi.
The busses streamed in last night bringing the people! 3,000 people packed out the auditorium – the place was buzzing with excitement. Soon, the young people were asked to sit on the floor in front of the stage, in order to make room for more people, and every chair and space was taken.
The people of Bangka were ready to receive, and they came with expectation. The dancers were dancing, the singers and choir excellent, the sound system blasting away, and my heart was crying to the Lord to meet these wonderful people tonight.
As soon as Pak Daniel took the microphone, he led the people into wonderful prayer, and then it was my turn. I preached my heart out. What can I say, I am an evangelist, and I was going to lead the people to Jesus no matter what!
People ask me, “Are you and intercessor or an Evangelist?” I tell them, “I am an interceding evangelist”.
God was there, His people were ready to receive, and He was ready to bless them. I gave the call for salvation and also called on the people to make their lives right with God. I estimate that around sixty percent of that crowded auditorium responded and cried out to the Lord. Soon, weeping was heard throughout the hall, and I knew that the “Maker of man was dealing with the heart of man”. Jesus, the Master restorer, was restoring the deep need of mankind to fellowship with Him.
Miracles seemed to flood the place! When I asked, “Who has been healed already”, about thirty people came forward! How to test them all? I just chose people at random and let them tell of what God had done!
Then, we really prayed for the sick, and it seemed as though the flood of miracles turned into a deluge of healings, God is not the God of healing the body, but also the heart, the soul, the being, the family – He is the restorer of all!
The beauty is to flow as a team on the stage. Pak Robinson, being a wonderful man of faith himself, moved in power, and then he prayed for the sick. Oh, I love to move and minister with God’s people!
What a night! What a God! What a move of the Holy Spirit! What an encounter! Heaven invading earth so that we can say, “Your Kingdom come, Your will be done, as it is in heaven so be it on earth”.
This morning, we are flying back to Jakarta to rest one night. Then, we will do the last two seminars of the JDN tour, before I start preparing for the Manakwari crusade.
Blessings, Suzette
